[ecrea] CFP: Communication, Art, Media

Communication, Art, Media: Probing Impacts and Intersections Lisbon, 
October 13-15, 2017

One hundred years ago, Marcel Duchamp’s “The Fountain” changed our 
conceptions of art. Roughly at the same time, the rise and dissemination 
of electronic media altered our notions of communication. In 1935, 
Walter Benjamin linked these two changes in his seminal reflections on 
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. Fast forward to 
the present day, and we can see how the rise of “new media” and the 
formation of novel communicative practices have had a deep impact on the 
arts – on their production, perception, and reception. But whereas many 
artists have enthusiastically employed new forms of media in their 
works, media and communication theorists have rarely paid attention to 
the aesthetic facets of their field of research, focusing rather on its 
ontological, epistemological, ethical, and political aspects.

In this workshop, the Philosophy of Communication section of the 
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) 
invites communication scholars, philosophers, and artists to reflect on, 
develop, and debate the relationship between the arts, the aesthetic, 
and communication. We invite proposals that probe influences and 
tensions between these spheres from a variety of philosophical and 
theoretical perspectives. We seek papers that explore the contributions 
of specific philosophers to the question at hand as well as discussions 
of the unique communicative characteristics of individual art forms and 
works. We are looking for presentations that deal with the intersection 
of communication and art in contemporary social life – from the 
proliferation of visual culture and developments in the cultural 
industries to the aestheticization of politics and everyday life – as 
well as contributions that address the implications of contemporary 
media aesthetics on the
theorizing of communication itself. Examinations of historical 
transformations of the relationship between varying modes of 
communication and the arts are also most welcome.

Confirmed keynote speaker: David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds)

The workshop will take place on the 13th-15th of October in Lisbon, 
Portugal. It will be hosted by Lusófona University. Workshop fee: 45€ 
(includes 6 coffee breaks and 2 meals)

Abstracts of 300-400 words should be submitted by 1st of May 2017, along 
with a short biography note (including at least name, current 
affiliation, and position), at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecreaphil2017

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-May, 2017.

For more information please visit http://philosophyofcommunication.eu

IOC (International Organizing Committee)
Eli Dresner
Johan Siebers
José Gomes Pinto
Kęstas Kirtiklis
Lydia Sanchéz
Mats Bergman
Philomen Schönhagen
Emanuel Kulczycki
Carlos Roos

LOC (Local Organizing Committee)
José Gomes Pinto
Paulo Lima
Joana Bicacro

Email: (ecreaphilcomm /at/ ulusofona.pt)



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