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Subject: Call For Papers: Journeys Across Media 2011
Journeys Across Media 2011
Friday 6th May 2011
SPACE IN OUR TIME: EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF SCREEN AND LIVE PERFORMANCE
SPACE
Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2011 is the 9th annual international conference
for postgraduate students, organized by postgraduates working in the
Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. It
provides a discussion forum for current and developing research in film,
theatre, television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed the
opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages
of development in the active, friendly and supportive research environment
of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. This year JAM
will be guest-editing the Autumn issue of Intellect’s Journal of Media
Practice and in 2012 an associated journal to the conference will be
launched, providing further opportunities for new researchers to publish
their work and interact with established scholars.
Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.
The 9th JAM conference seeks to address issues of space in performance,
media and wider society and instigate discussions about space across
disciplines, practices and fields of research.
Space in performance and media is constantly shifting. Emerging technologies
and new models of physical spaces have radically shaped our conceptions and
experiences of performing, the world and our performing within that world.
Artistic experimentation in live performance tests and contests space as a
neutral/political/liminal/active zone. Through innovative spatial
delineations and/or site specific work, contemporary theatre and performance
challenge conventions of text and space, performance and institution and
performance and audience. Issues of space are increasingly central to
performance studies and the experience of live performance. The growing
popularity of companies such as Secret Cinema reflect the importance of the
exhibition site for cinema and possibilities for cross-media events. The
organisation and handling of space on screen can reveal the conceptual
reality of a time, rather than just function as background. Studies of the
cinematic screen continue to focus on ideological articulations through
oppositions, such as on-screen/off-screen space, interior/exterior,
centre/periphery, inclusion/exclusion in space. Meanwhile, televisual spaces
continue to change both in terms of on-screen representation and how the
television as an object inhabits space, particularly in relation to its
online dissemination and the proliferation of products which facilitate its
access.
This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses around
space to submit papers for the JAM 2011 conference; topics may include, but
are not restricted to:
Cross-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary spaces
National/International space; Globalisation
Centrality – Marginality of/in space
Gendered spaces
Space and memory
Critical masses (people in space)
Space as a character
Absence/non-place
Time and Space in performance
Architecture and performance
Immersion and illusion in contemporary performance spaces
Space in Contemporary art
Ownership and accountability
Ontology of space
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2011
Please send a 250-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note for a
fifteen-minute paper to Amanda Beauchamp, Becki Hillman, Tonia Kazakopoulou,
Martin O’Brien and James Rattee, at [log in to unmask] Proposals for
practice-as-research presentations/performances are warmly invited; these
have to conform to the 15-minute format.
We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider
promotion of this conference through your networks. Journeys Across Media is
supported by the Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD)
and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading
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