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CALL FOR PROPOSALS


‘Shaping Knowledge: encounters between word and image’

Media Practice Education and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium 2019
Hosted by the School of Arts, University of Kent

Friday 14^th  June 2019

This symposium will explore the interaction between word and image 
within media-based practice research. As creative practice has 
increasingly found a home within academia, and as digital technologies 
have made possible new methodologies and forms of output, the hegemony 
of the written word within arts and humanities scholarship has been 
challenged from different directions. From curated exhibitions, through 
audiovisual essays and interactive websites, to sound and Internet art, 
practice research now challenges the logocentric focus of humanities 
research across all media.

Yet media-based practice research cannot entirely escape the written and 
spoken word.  Words permeate it - for example, in the narratives of 
podcasts, the voice overs of films, and the wall texts of artworks. They 
also surround it – for example in the framing statements provided in 
programme notes, catalogues, and websites, in the written components of 
PhD dissertations, and in REF portfolio submissions.

The interplay between word and image that underpins much practice 
research has opened new opportunities but also raised new challenges. 
For example, how to translate detailed research into shortform or 
non-durational media and artworks without simplifying it? How to put 
words and images into non-hierarchical relationships? How to acknowledge 
and articulate the process of research and creation?

The symposium will explore ways in which practitioners in various fields 
engage with the interdependence of word and image. By bringing together 
disciplines including film, photography, online video, sound art, radio, 
graphic design, and digital and media art, it will aim to bring the 
audiovisual strategies for ‘shaping knowledge’ adopted within different 
media forms into conversation with each other, and allow them to 
illuminate each other.

Themes for presentations may include:

  * Essayistic practices (essay films, photo essays, video essays,
    podcasts, etc.)**
  * The human voice: the spoken and performed word
  * The aesthetic and affective qualities of words
  * Reflexivity into creative practice and practice research
  * Abstracts, synopses and REF statements: articulating practice 
research**
  * The PaR PhD: articulating and contextualising research in the
    ‘write-up’**
  * Impact: presenting practice research for non-academic audiences**
  * Non-verbal knowledge: can creative research outputs ‘speak for
    themselves’?

Proposals may take the form of scholarly papers on these or other 
relevant themes, or presentation of practice-based work that works 
through the relationship of word and image. Non-traditional forms of 
presentation (for example, lecture-performances, videos, photo essays, 
simple installations, interactive websites, etc.) are encouraged.

Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a special issue 
of/ Media Practice and Education/ in 2020.

Please send proposals (300 words approx.) for all presentations, papers, 
artworks or screenings, outlining their aim and form, along with a short 
biography to the symposium conveners: Richard Misek 
((r.e.misek /at/ kent.ac.uk) <mailto:(r.e.misek /at/ kent.ac.uk)>) and Maurizio 
Cinquegrani ((M.Cinquegrani /at/ kent.ac.uk) <mailto:(M.Cinquegrani /at/ kent.ac.uk)>) 
by Friday 29th March 2019.

Hosted by the Centre for Film and Media Research at the School of Arts, 
University of Kent, the event will take place at the university’s 
beautiful hilltop Canterbury campus, an easy 55-minute train journey 
from Central London.

The MeCCSA Practice Network champions practice within the Media, 
Communications and Cultural Studies Association, ensuring that those 
that teach and research practice have a strong voice within the subject 
association and beyond. We are dedicated to maintaining and developing 
links with the creative industries and relevant national and 
international networks and associations.
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