[ecrea] Cfp: XXII International Conference of Cinema Studies

Call for Papers XXII International Conference of Cinema Studies

*Contemporary Film and Media Aesthetics: **Culture, Nature, and 
Technology in the 21**st **Century*

Roma Tre University – Department of Philosophy, Media, and Performing Arts,

Rome, November 24th–25th, 2016

/Confirmed keynote speakers/:

Stella Bruzzi (University of Warwick), Torben Grodal (University of 
Copenhagen),

Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)

Audiovisual media are the basis for most of our experiences today. In a 
postdigital and postmedia age, they are a crucial element constituting 
the environment in which we are immersed, act, and sense ourselves and 
others. Furthermore, it is through media that we expand our sensorial 
abilities and redefine our own identity. According to widespread 
opinion, contemporary audiovisual culture implies a deep reconfiguration 
of experience, and a resulting rethinking of the 20th century paradigms. 
Cinema, television, photography, videogames, media art, and the web – 
together with new interactive and immersive technologies – constantly 
permeate artistic and everyday spaces. They stimulate and mobilize our 
affective and sensorial spheres, and involve our consciousness on many 
different levels. Research about media experience is hence increasingly 
located at the crossroads of biology, technology, and culture.

Which are the main approaches deriving from the transformations in the 
contemporary audiovisual scenario? Film and media aesthetics has 
recently proposed new models to address the interactions of screens, 
minds, and bodies. The growth of new interdisciplinary research areas 
demonstrates a new sensibility, thus restoring the idea of aesthetics as 
a theory of sensory experience – an experience that is investigated from 
various different perspectives, from naturalism to culturalism, and 
inspired by both continental and analytic frameworks. However, the 
emergence of new media arts and forms induces the consideration of 
aesthetics as a philosophy of art, especially with respect to the many 
creative uses of new technologies. These two aspects are not mutually 
exclusive; rather, an exploration of their interactions can enrich both 
of them.

The 22nd International Conference of Film Studies addresses contemporary 
trends in media and film aesthetics. We invite scholars and researchers 
from any involved discipline to propose an abstract addressing one the 
following issues − but not limited to them. Each issue can be approached 
from a purely theoretical perspective, or through specific case studies.

*• *The interactions between mind and screen, and their impact on the 
sensorial and affective experience of the viewer.

*• *Medium-body relations, including the idea of the body as medium.

*• *The impact of film and media experience on agency, conscience, 
subjectivity, and identity.

*• *The social impact of media emotions, with particular reference to 
trauma studies.

*• *Film and media aesthetics and politics: the aesthetic sensorium.

*• *Applicative implications of theoretical models, with particular 
reference to gaming, education, and medicine.

*• *Analytic and continental aesthetics: contrast and compare.

*• *Interdisciplinary fields of research: from affect theory to sensory 
studies, from cognitive media theory to neuroaesthetics, and beyond.

*• *Beyond ocularcentrism: embodiment, hapticity, and synesthesia.

*• *Environment and visuality: rethinking the concepts of medium and 
visual regime.

*• *Classical film aesthetics and its development in the 21st century.

*• *Film aesthetic and ontology: parallels and differences.

*• *19th and 20th centuries’ visual culture in light of the contemporary 
media landscape.

*• *Art in the postmedia age, and the new creative forms.

Contributors can send their abstract (300-500 words, 3-5 keywords, 3-5 
bibliographic references) to (roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it) 
<mailto:(roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it)>

Please include a brief biography of the author(s), together with the 
main contacts.

The abstract must be received by August 25th, 2016.

All notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than September 
5th, 2016.

Presentations will last 20 minutes. The conference’s languages are 
English and Italian.

/Organizers/: Enrico Carocci, Ivelise Perniola

(Roma Tre University – Department of Philosophy, Media, and Performing Arts)

/Fee (speakers)/: €40.00

/Website: /http://roma3conference.wix.com/filmmediaaesthetics


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