[Commlist] CFP: affective intermediality conference

Call for our new conference, organized by the SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN 
UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA, CENTRE FOR CINEMATIC INTERMEDIALITY AND 
VISUAL CULTURE. In case this call resonates with your own research in 
any way, please consider this an invitation to join us.

See our website: 
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/affective-intermediality
E-mail for further inquiries: (affective.intermediality /at/ gmail.com).
Deadline for applications: 10 July 2023.
CALL FOR PAPERS

Our conference aims to encourage studies that explore an emerging 
paradigm in intermediality studies centred on "affective 
intermediality", and we hope to initiate a friendly, scholarly debate 
regarding the relevance and productivity of this approach. The necessity 
of such an “affective turn” of intermediality studies arises from 
viewing intermediality as an intricate and highly performative process 
of communication between humans within a particular context of material 
reality and historical time, not just as a “transfer”, a “combination” 
or “reference” of media characteristics or representations, i.e. not 
only as something that happens between media and affects media, but as 
something that affects us. Accordingly, we propose “affective 
intermediality” as a key term for a perspective over the experience of 
the in-betweenness of arts and media that pivots from concentrating on 
formal operations of media transgressions to examining the sensuous 
excess and complex affective performativity of cinematic intermediality 
and of intermedial artworks in general. Cognitive and narrative theory 
has long considered cinema to be essentially an “emotion machine” (Ed S. 
Tan) capable of offering “ethically illuminating experiences” (Carl 
Plantinga). The great cinéphile philosophers of our times, Jacques 
Rancière and Alain Badiou both speak of cinema in affective terms, 
highlighting how the medium “overflows” itself (Rancière) towards the 
other arts and reality, or, reversely, allows reality and the arts to 
contaminate it, to “flow through” it, “using and magnifying them”, 
whilst “according them a distinctive emotional power” (Badiou). However, 
the wide spectrum where intermediality intervenes into cinema’s 
“affective regimes” is yet to be fully untangled. Furthermore, cinema 
serves as an eminent example and model for our proposed investigation 
and it may open up the field of analysis towards other contemporary 
media that are increasingly “cinematic”. Cinephilia mingles with the 
enjoyment of the affordances of our high-tech display devices. At the 
same time, cinematic liveness, presence, and affectivity itself have all 
acquired new meanings in our times, as digital mediatedness has become a 
part of reality and essential for personal interactions. Looking at a 
variety of samples, we may find that the tensions in-between arts and 
media, which are inherent to any forms of intermediality, can reflect 
our affective responses to the world. Moreover, intermediality can also 
become an effective tool in a critical, ethical and emotional engagement 
with old and new media alike and with vital problems of contemporary 
reality. Although we launch the call from the perspective of a research 
project on the art of moving images, we would like to encourage 
participants to cover as much as possible of the depth and breadth of 
the idea of “affective intermediality” and invite contributions from all 
fields of intermediality studies.

The following topics may inspire you in writing theoretical essays or 
individual case studies (but we also welcome any paper that proposes a 
relevant approach to the main idea of the conference and that can expand 
the area of investigations):

- unravelling the sensuous excess, sensuous materiality, or the poetic 
strategies and tropes through which an "affective intermediality" is 
manifested in moving images and other media;
- the pleasures and displeasures of cinematic intermediality: an 
exploration of specific moods, sensations and feelings or “incongruous 
affects” (Plantinga) communicated/generated through intermediality;
- the uncanniness of intermediality (an idea carried over from our 
previous workshop launching our research project – see further 
suggestions about this topic here);
- imagination, empathy, memory/postmemory and intermediality; the 
representability and affective accessibility of traumatic experiences 
through intermediality;
- sensitizing through intermediality: addressing key issues of reality 
(e.g. ecological, social-humanitarian, political crises, etc.); ethical 
stance and critical thought emerging through “affective intermediality”; 
- “the distribution of the sensible” (Rancière) reflected through 
intermediality;
- the gendered gaze and “touch” in intermedial art;
- affective intermediality in the digital age (e.g. in computer games, 
in immersive/interactive uses of digital media/platforms/applications, 
etc.);  - affective dispositifs (arrangements, milieus) in art 
installations using moving images/expanded cinema and connecting 
multiple arts;
- presentations of practice as research approaches and curatorial 
practice bringing into spotlight an “affective intermediality” in the arts.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
JØRGEN BRUHN, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Linnæus 
University, Sweden.
JULIAN HANICH, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of 
Groningen, Netherlands. LAURA RASCAROLI, Professor in Film and Screen 
Media at University College Cork, Ireland.
We plan this as a stimulating and mainly in-person event, therefore we 
encourage you to come and join us in the debates “in real life”. 
Nevertheless, in case you cannot come, we will accept a limited number 
(up to 20%) of online presentations that we can include in hybrid panels 
(i.e. there will be no panels with only online presentations).
We also plan to publish a selection of papers based on the presentations.

We accept proposals for individual presentations and especially welcome 
proposals of panels presenting the work of a research project/centre or 
friendly group (consisting of 3 papers). Please send your proposals by 
filling in one of the submission forms accessible on our website: 
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/affective-intermediality
If you have any questions, contact us at: 
(affective.intermediality /at/ gmail.com).

Deadline: 10 July 2023.
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