*** This email has been sent from the MEDIA ARTS AND DANCE email forum. To respond to all subscribers email [log in to unmask] *** Dear All, We would like to announce a call for papers, mix media presentations and residency participants for the upcoming Visual Research Network 1st International Residency Conference entitled ‘Creative Image: Ways of seeing, representing and reshaping reality’. The residency will happen from the 21st to the 25th of September in the Peak District and the conference will the place on the 26th and 27th of September 2018 at the University of Manchester, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. The organisers invite theoretical, experimental, sensorial, and methodological contributions that cover themes including, but are not limited to: Image Ontologies The aesthetic developments of the medium The senses in visual ethnography Film, photography, performance, cartoons, sound, drawings, and any other sensory materials produced through a critical, creative or reflexive processes in practice-as-research or ethnography are welcome. Informal queries can be addressed to [log in to unmask] Please submit your abstract either to the residency or the conference alone at www.visualresearchnetwork.com by the end of May 2018. Please do circulate and feel free to get in touch for any queries. The events are free of charge, and funded by the AHRC North West Consortium, University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Kind Regards, Eduard, Pavel and Paloma [log in to unmask] www.visualresearchnetwork.com