[ecrea] Call for papers: Besides the Screen International Conference

CFP: PROJECTION / GEOMETRY / PERFORMANCE
A Besides the Screen International Conference and Exhibition
Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016

Confirmed keynotes: Charlotte Brunsdon (Warwick, UK); Nelson Brissac 
(PUC-SP, Brazil)

Deadline for proposals (EXTENDED): 1st MAy 2016

  From shadow puppetry to videomapping and holography, projection is 
one of the central activities in moving image practices. Being at the 
same time a precise geometrical operation and the main underpinning of 
cinematographic artifice, it has a highly ambiguous existence: Siegfried 
Zielinski once dubbed projection “a media strategy located between proof 
of truth and illusioning;” Sean Cubitt, in turn, has underscored how it 
produces a state of simultaneous “vanishing and becoming.” While 
performing the articulation from space to surface and vice-versa, 
projection enacts the very translation of dimensions that, according to 
Vilém Flusser, is responsible for the creation of images. The 
investigation of projection thus brings forth the performativity of media.

We are looking for papers and projects that survey this heterogenous 
character of projection and its relation to a wide range of moving image 
practices to be presented at the next Besides the Screen International 
Conference, to be held in late July 2016 at Coventry University, United 
Kingdom.

It is possible to participate with papers, workshops, performances, 
artist presentations and artworks that address topics such as:

– old, new and future projection technologies
– the labor, role and possible agency of the projectionist
– projection theories
– architectures for (and against) projection
– projection as psychological process and/or mathematical operation
– unconventional projection geometries and sites
– the use of projection in the hard sciences and art installations
– audiovisual performances, live cinema, vjing
– mobile projection, light graffiti, pop-up cinemas
– videomapping, dome projection, planetariums
– holography, pepper's ghost, shadow puppetry, phantasmagorias

To submit a proposal, send an abstract (~300 words) and a short 
biographical note (~150 words) to the email (besidesthescreen /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(besidesthescreen /at/ gmail.com)>, indicating in the subject 
SUBMISSION: BESIDES THE SCREEN 2016. The deadline is 25th April 2016.

Besides the Screen is an international research network that aims to 
reconfigure the field of screen studies by refocusing it on the objects, 
processes and practices that exist besides the screen. The project is 
currently supported by the British Arts & Humanities Research Council. 
More info can be found at besidesthescreen.com <http://besidesthescreen.com>

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