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Journeys Across Media: Manifestations of Media Technology
JAM 2006 at the University of Reading
Friday 21 April 2006
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day conference based in the
Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading,
organised by and for postgraduate students on a national and international
level, which aims to provide a discussion forum for current research in
the areas of film, theatre, television and ‘new media’.
Established in 2003, JAM has proven successful in providing an opportunity
for postgraduate students to gain experience in presenting aspects of
their research as a conference paper within a friendly environment. This
is the fourth consecutive year that this highly popular event is
happening, and we warmly invite postgraduates working on film, theatre,
television and 'new media' to submit proposals on the theme outlined
below. Papers presented at this year’s conference will be considered for
possible publication in an edited collection.
Experimentation with and exploration of New Media technologies has
generated a growing interest in the study of apparatus within the visual
arts. New technologies often share traits with older forms and this
connection has led scholars to the comparative study of technological
innovations within the history of media. Whilst significant work has been
produced on the use of sound and lighting, further technical aspects of
theatre, the practices and possibilities of the camera, CGI, etc, there is
much scope for greater exploration. Technology has been seen as essential
to the study of texts and the increasingly self-reflexive character of
cultural products has transformed the apparatus itself into a visual sign
with further implications. The main purpose of this year’s JAM conference
is to bring to the fore the uses and abuses of old and new technologies in
cinema, video art, television and theatre and to situate them within
critical and cultural approaches.
Technological apparatus to consider might include cameras, film stock or
video formats, sound recording methods, lighting, vision mixing, chromakey
or stage and studio apparatus, as well as digital and new media
technologies.
Possible questions to address:
• How are the technologies used in film, television, new media or
theatre practices encoded in the meaning, style or aesthetic of a work?
• What are the advantages and limitations of a specific technical
apparatus? How does technical equipment or a technological process
increase, enhance or alter the possibilities of representation? Relevant
issues might include a technology’s interaction with performance or its
effect on visual and audio style as well as the various applications of
digital compositing and animation.
• How does the combination of different media technologies,
or ‘intermedialities’ create new aesthetic or ontological considerations?
• How is technology used self-reflexively in a media text?
• How are the properties of different media formats, such as DVD and
video exploited within the marketing and packaging of media works and what
effect does this have on the original text?
The day is expected to run from 10am to 5pm.
Papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Please send abstracts of
approximately 250 words plus a biographical note by Monday 13th February
2006 (final deadline) to:
Leah Panos/Kostas Kostantinidis
The Department of Film, Theatre & Television
University of Reading
Bulmershe Court
Reading, RG6 1HY
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Visit the JAM2006 website
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/jam.htm#JAM_2006 for a registration form.
A limited number of travel bursaries will also be available.
Supported by the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities and the Standing
Committee for University Drama Departments (SCUDD)
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