[Commlist] Call for Conference Papers: The Off-Screen

*Call for Conference Papers ***

*The Off-Screen *

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*Film and Media Studies *

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*Georgia State University*,*Atlanta *

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*February 23-24, 2023 | In-person/Virtual *

*Hosted by the GSU FMT Graduate Theory Study Group *

*Submission Deadline:_December 20, 2022 _***

*Keynote Speakers (Appearing in person):*

_Sulgi Lie_(Visiting Professor of Art Theory and Aesthetics, Berlin 
University of the Arts)

_Daniel Morgan_(Chair & Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, 
University of Chicago)

The Graduate Students in the Moving Image Studies program in the School 
of Film, Media & Theatre at Georgia State University, invite proposals 
for a conference on the topic of the “off-screen.” Where or what is 
“off-screen”? This once-moot question presses forward again in this age 
of scrolling, swiping, and media convergence; thus, we are moved to ask 
it again.

Because the “off-screen” seems both constitutive and elusive of the 
moving image, we prefer to ask “when?” or “how?” As the off-screen is 
always on the move, perhaps we ought to track its production, trace 
those zones of action and mediation where “on” conjures “off” in acts of 
prestidigitation, as they appear formally, materially, 
phenomenologically, and historically. “On” and “off” are, of course, 
temporal terms as much as they are spatial. The off-screen takes time, 
dispatches with time, disperses time, erases time.

Concentrating on the presence or suggestion of the “off-screen,” we can 
identify an out-of-field occupied by the spectator, one coinciding with 
the screen before them and beyond, whether spatially or temporally. 
Which suggests the question, what do we do with the off-screen, and what 
does it do, in the end, ‘interactively,’ with us?

To answer this question, we provide the following list of binaries as a 
prompt for thinking about the topic of the off-screen that we hope will 
inspire paper proposals:

-Inside/Outside

-Internal/External

-Front/Back

-Above/Underneath

-Distance/Proximity

-Full/Empty

-Surface/Depth

-Enveloped/Between

-Horizontal/Vertical

-Single/Multiple

-Motion/Stillness

-Passage/Blockage

-Closed/Open

	

-Volume/Plane

-Expansion/Contraction

-Defigure/Refigure

-Center/Edge

-Synchrony/Asynchrony

-Porosity/Compartmentalization

-Sound/Silence

-Ambience/Void

-Here/There

-Visible/Invisible

-Lossy/Lossless

-Compression/Decompression

-Centrifugal/Centripetal

We invite papers – by early scholars and graduate students especially – 
that explore theoff-screenacross a wide range of moving-image media 
including film, television, video, streaming, mobile media, analog and 
digital, games, VR, single and multi-channel, and platformed, scrolled, 
and swiped.

The GSU FMT Graduate Theory Study Group’s conference onThe 
Off-Screenwelcomes experimental scholarship and provocative approaches 
to the intersection between critical thinking, writing, and image-making.

We hope presenters and attendees will participate in person; however, 
virtual attendance options will also be made available.

Please submit paper proposals (300–500 words), including 3-5 
bibliographical sources and a brief biography, by_December 20, 
(2022_to__jchrietzberg1 /at/ gsu.edu) <mailto:(jchrietzberg1 /at/ gsu.edu)>; be sure 
to include in the title of the email_“GSU - The Off-Screen_.”

All other queries should be directed (tojchrietzberg1 /at/ gsu.edu) 
<mailto:(jchrietzberg1 /at/ gsu.edu)>or conference organizers Ahmet Yuce, Seth 
Adam Wilder, Alper Gobel, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi, Navid Darvishzadeh, 
Corey Crouch, and/or Jordan Chrietzberg at Georgia State University.


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