[ecrea] Conference "Symbiotic Cinema"

*"Symbiotic Cinema: Confluences Between Film and Other Media"*
6-8 September 2018, Växjö, Sweden

“Intermediality” is the word that defines the junctures between cinema 
nad other media/arts and the research field within which these 
confluences take place. Such a relationship may occur on a one-on-one 
basis, in which a media form or a media product is transposed to another 
media form or product, or it can occur in a more multimedial basis, in 
which a complex transposition involving several media takes place at 
once. The result is something which is different from the original and 
yet possesses some of the same properties. It can either be a 
transformation in the characteristics of the medium being transposed, 
i.e. an adaptation, or a different representation of the media in other 
media, i.e. /ekphrasis. /The advent of new media opened another field of 
inquiry within intermediality, namely digital cinema and its properties. 
Advocates pro and against the emerging computational technologies helped 
shed some light on matters of relative chronology and hybridity/media 
fusion in a more diversified environment. Both positions differ only in 
focus and degree, since cinema, from a technical perspective, has 
undeniably changed. The concept of “post-cinema” addresses the new 
technological forms and sites of consumption, which, in turn, results in 
new ways of film viewing, more or less immersive; as well as in new 
types of products, more or less fragmented and pushed towards the museum.

The present *Film and Television conference*, calls for rationale and 
analysis that bears on cinema/television as technical media and its 
characteristics. Proponents are invited to establish connections with 
other media, within English-speaking countries. Both theoretical and 
practical analysis of film and other media are accepted. Possible topics 
include but are not limited to the following:

- Definition of media, intermediality, intramediality.
- Mediation, remediation, transmediation processes.
- Narrative adaptation, cinematic ekphrasis.
- Media characteristics and/or essence.
- Pure and impure media/cinema.
- Cinema as a limited or superior medium.
- “Old”, new, and residual media.
- Digital cinema.
- Post-cinema.
- Hybridity and media borders.
- New perspectives on the history/archaeology of cinema and other media.
- The aesthetics of cinema and other media technologies.
- Cinema/television and art forms: new artistic languages.
- Cinema/television and society: social uses of media.
- Cinema/television and ideology: the politics of media.
- Cinema/television as communication.
- Immersive qualities and spectatorial adhesion.
- The invisible and the virtual.
- Different products, different spectators.

*Keynote speakers:*

  * François Jost – Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France
  * Lúcia Nagib – University of Reading, Department of Film, Media and
    Television, UK.
  * Miriam De Rosa – Coventry University, School of Media and Performing
    Arts, UK.

*Submission: *

The language of the conference is English. Individual presentations must 
not exceed 20 minutes. Please send your proposal containing an abstract 
(500 words max.), 5 key-words, and a short bio (120 max.) until 15th 
February 2018 to the two following  email addresses: 
(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com)> and (ims /at/ lnu.se) 
<mailto:(ims /at/ lnu.se)> Notification of acceptance will be sent until 15th 
March 2018.

Upon acceptance, speakers will be required to become SERCIA members 
(Society for the Research on Anglo-Saxon Cinema) for 2017. Visit the 
conference website: 
sercia.net/index.php/how-to-join-sercia/17-how-to-join-sercia 
<http://sercia.net/index.php/how-to-join-sercia/17-how-to-join-sercia>

*Conference fees: *

600 SEK (65 €) for lecturers / professors / independent scholars; 300 
SEK (35 €) for students / retired colleagues, which cover meals and 
other arrangements + 30€ or 15 € for SERCIA annual membership .

*Contact:*

Fátima Chinita ((chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com)>) 
and Eva Larsson ((ims /at/ lnu.se) <mailto:(ims /at/ lnu.se)>).

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