BFX 2014 Conference 'Digital Convergences '
Bournemouth University, September 22, 2014 – September 24, 2014
https://bfxconf.bournemouth.ac.uk/

Call for Papers

Through an interdisciplinary approach, the BFX conference will seek to revisit theoretical positionings staked out across different fields, with a view to realign the discussion in the light of current technologies.

The realm of moving images has historically been framed by change and flux. It has accommodated a variety of genres of art, cinema, animation and games and has straddled the spaces of the popular and high art. The discussion of the moving image has on occasion occupied separate discursive spaces although with the onset of digital technology a convergence of discourses across disciplines is increasingly more visible.

The conference invites papers that reconsider the arguments that position film, animation and art as aesthetically, structurally and intellectually different.
We are seeking proposals for paper submissions in the form of a short synopsis of not more that 300 words. The submissions will be anonymous and presented to a panel of selected reviewers.

We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:

Intertexuality in Moving Images
Transmedia
Digital Film
The Ontologies of Moving Images
Realism
Visual Effects
Interactivity
Games
Digital Arts
Animation
Computer Animation
Computing and Simulation

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15/05/2014

The BFX organisers are in discussion with the Editor of animation: an interdisciplinary journal about the possibility of a Special Issue of the journal. All colleagues whose abstracts are accepted at BFX Conference 2014 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper with a word count of between 7,000 - 10,000 words for consideration. Articles will undergo further peer review independent of the BFX conference Peer Review of the abstracts submitted to the conference. Details of the publisher and manuscript submission guidelines can be found at anm.sagepub.com

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The BFX Conference has been setup in 2014 to run alongside the BFX Festival hosted by Bournemouth University. Both the festival and conference draw attention to visual effects and animated techniques present in moving digital images and their wider applications.

Digital Convergences 2014

This conference intends to present and analyse the convergences that are occurring across and within the genres of moving image, in part resulting from the impact of digital technologies.

Through an interdisciplinary approach, the BFX conference invites authors to examine various theoretical positionings with a view to realign the discussion in the light of current technologies. The conference seeks to revisit the arguments that position film, animation and art as aesthetically, structurally and intellectually different.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON 01/06/2014

Keynote Speakers so far:

Lev Manovich
Sean Cubitt

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Dr Stephen Bell
Senior Lecturer in Computer Animation
Director of Visual Research Group
NCCA, Bournemouth University
http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/
http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/sbell

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