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[ecrea] CFP: Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweenness

Wed Feb 21 17:45:55 GMT 2018





*INTERMEDIALITY NOW: REMAPPING IN-BETWEENNESS*

International film and media studies conference organized by the Sapientia University

Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 19-20 October 2018.


Connected to our new exploratory research project “RethinkingIntermediality in Contemporary Cinema: Changing Forms of In-Betweenness” funded by the UEFISCDI, and following up on the topics of our previous conferences <http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences>, we would like to bring into focus the idea of “in-betweenness” set in a wider context of contemporary visual culture, and to re-evaluate its relevance regarding the state of the art in researches on intermediality.

Digital media have not only prompted a reassessment of the relationship of the “old” and the “new” through their extraordinary capacity for absorption and remediation, but have literally flooded our life with their ubiquity and sheer excess. The technological convergences of devices producing and displaying media, the fusions, expansions, relocations taking place have effectively challenged our perception of media differences. If the idea of intermediality is based on the assumption of a productive interaction of media, then there should be no more pressing issue regarding intermediality studies today than fine-tuning its core concept of in-betweenness to the phenomena of the so called post-media age, in the spirit of Raymond Bellour’s concept of /l’entre-images/ (i.e. /images-in-between///inter-images/), in which novel forms are continuously “hollowed out from within surrounded by the new forces that irrigate it” (2012: 21). On the other hand, however, as recent theoretical approaches imply by viewing media products embedded in their palpable, real-life environment (i.e. in the /dispositifs/ we experience them, in their phenomenology that links them to our bodies, or in their concrete, historical and socio-political context), the relevance of intermediality is not limited to what happens /to/ media, but it extends, even more importantly, to what happens /through/ the in-betweenness of media and what is the agency of in-betweenness in our contemporary multimedia environment. Besides the analysis of new configurations, we should also examine what is inscribed and communicated through various intermedia relations and what new types of passages are established in-between art and life, in-between the emotional, spiritual and the material, as well as the imaginary and the real, and so on.

We invite proposals to unravel the complex new relationships that define our contemporary visual culture, and to map new, relevant areas of in-betweenness that may enrich our knowledge of intermediality today.

*We suggest the following tracks along which individual topics (theoretical presentations or case studies) may be proposed:*

·Classical cinema vs. expanded cinema in the digital age, cinema and other forms of moving images

·The cinematic, the photographic, the theatrical, the painterly as transversal concepts (applicable “outside” their media boundaries) in the aesthetic of contemporary art and media

·/L-entre images/(inter-images) today: new passages between the visual arts in the digital age

·In-between the real and the intermedial, the immediate and the hypermediated, bodies and media, the sensual and the abstract

·Intermedial strategies in the aesthetic or the curating practices of contemporary art and media, the politics of intermediality, the “messages” of in-betweenness

·New technologies and experiences of in-betweenness: e.g. 3D, VR cinema, computer games

·“In-betweenness” in between theories: concepts of liminality articulated/applied through theories of intermediality, media convergence, transmediality, philosophy, media archaeology and ecology, intersections of media and cultural studies etc.


    *Confirmed keynote speakers:*

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MARTINE BEUGNET, Professor in Visual Studies at the Paris Diderot University. Her current research interests include: cinema and video art (phenomenology, aesthetics, reception), forms and practices of the moving image in the era of the digital, and the relationship between the arts. She is the author of /Claire Denis/ (2004); /Proust at the Movies/ (with Marion Schmid, 2005); /Cinema and Sensation:/ /French Film and the Art of Transgression/ (2007).  Her latest books are on the aesthetic of the blur in cinema: /Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty/ (with A. Cameron and A. Fetveit, 2017) and /L’attrait du flou/ (/The Attraction of the Blur/, 2017).

THOMAS ELSAESSER, Professor Emeritus of the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Besides publishing over 200 essays in journals and collections, he has authored, edited and co-edited some 20 volumes on film history, film theory, media archaeology and new media.Among his recent books as author are: (with Malte Hagener) /Film Theory – An Introduction through the Senses/ (2010) and /Film History as Media Archaeology/ (2016). He is currently completing a book on /European Cinema and Continental Thought: Film as Thought Experiment/ (2018).He is also writer-director of the documentary film, /The Sun Island/ (2017) which premiered at the Kassel Documentary Festival in November 2017. The conference will also include a screening of this film.


    *Submission of proposals*

We invite proposals both for individual papers and pre-constituted panels. Panels may consist of 3 or 4 speakers.

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**Deadline for the submission of proposals: June 30, 2018.*


Please fill in one of the SUBMISSION FORMS below**(or access them on our website: _/http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/intermediality-now-remapping-in-betweenness/_)

*INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL* <https://goo.gl/forms/uVWHAriu7D3Z5GTH2>**

*PANEL PROPOSAL* <https://goo.gl/forms/Vwot36JxaVn0vdDv2>


For additional information you can contact the organizers directly at this e-mail address:

(2018.inbetweenness /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:%(202015.real.intermedial /at/ gmail.com)>**

The official language of the conference is English.

The time for presentations is limited to maximum 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute debate.

Conference fee (which includes participation, conference buffet and banquet): 120 EUR, special fee for participants from post-communist/communist countries: 70 EUR. The fee is to be paid on arrival at the conference registration desk.

A selection of papers based on the conference presentations will be published in our department's international, peer reviewed journal (/A/cta Universitatis Sapientiae. Film & Media Studies// <http://www.acta.sapientia.ro/acta-film/film-main.htm>) indexed in several international databases.

For more information and updates see the official website:/http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/intermediality-now-remapping-in-betweenness//./



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