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On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Frances Kamm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Merging Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Study of Hybrid Arts
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> Call for Papers
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> Saturday 1st
> February 2014
> University of Kent, Canterbury
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> Although we
>  naturally recognise different artistic media as distinct forms – music,
>  painting, sculpture, film, dance, theatre, architecture, animation, and
>  so on – we also understand that these mediums
>  can nevertheless have a meaningful dialogue in the creation of new
> artworks. Over the course of art history there have been numerous
> occasions when different media forms have merged or been juxtaposed for
> artistic purposes. These intermedial examples have
>  seen word and image intertwined on the page in the illuminated books of
>  William Blake; experimentation with the partnership between painting
> and music in Modest Mussorgsky's
> Pictures at an Exhibition; performance and music
> mixed in Variations by John Cage; the deconstruction of
> paintings through digital visual manipulation in Peter Greenaway’s
> lectures; and the recent National Theatre Live and Royal Opera House
> theatrical performances being broadcast onto cinema
>  screens. These instances – and many more – demonstrate a long tradition
>  of medium boundaries being crossed, media being combined to accentuate
> one another, or the creation of a new medium altogether.
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> It is
> particularly relevant to consider the subject of merging media at a time
>  when discussions of media archaeologies, media convergence and the
> transmedia phenomena permeate contemporary academic
>  debates. This conference seeks to engage with these topics by exploring
>  the theories and histories of hybrid art, as well as the effect new
> technologies have upon our understanding of this concept. The emergence
> of digital technologies is an important strand
>  in this investigation because it has both facilitated the creation of
> new art forms (such as 3D digital animation) and generated the
> remediation of older forms (for example, the digitisation of literature
> for consumption on computerised devices,
> and new forms of interaction with fine art online through virtual
> galleries).
>
> This
> one-day conference is for postgraduate students and early career
> researchers whose work incorporates the interdisciplinary topic of
> artistic hybridity and intermediality. We invite proposals
>  for 20-minute presentations (individual papers or pre-formed 3-paper
> panels) or performance pieces from candidates across arts and
> humanities. We welcome papers, panels and performances that investigate
> “merging media” through a variety of interpretations.
>  Possible research topics for submission can include, but are not
> limited to:
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> Hybridity of forms: case studies
> which explore instances where two or more established art forms are
> combined. What is the effect of this hybridisation?
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> ·
> Hybridity and technology: the impact of new technologies upon intermedial
> art forms, both past and present.
> Does technology facilitate the “merging” of media for artistic
> purposes, or is this an inevitable side-effect of – and an unavoidable
> trajectory towards – a larger media convergence culture?
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> ·
> Hybridity and history: specific case studies of merged media from the
> past, from Wagner's conception of
> gesamtkunstwerk – where all art-forms are united as one total art
>  – to the revolutionary intermedial 'decadence' of Warhol's Exploding
> Plastic Inevitable, and others.
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> ·
> Hybridity of performance: how
> performance is incorporated with various art media, from architecture in
>  site-specific performances, to video in multi-media productions. How do
>  we engage with performance through technology?
>  How does the notion of “intermedial” relate to the performance of art?
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> ·
> Hybridity and the audience: what
> effect does a “hybrid art” form have upon its audience? How does merging
>  media provide new opportunities for engaging with artworks?
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> ·
> Hybridity and remix culture: how
> various art forms are recycled and reused in the establishment of new
> works of art (e.g. the reprocessing of “found footage” for the purposes
> of art; fan-made hybrid products).
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> ·
> Hybridity and modes of production:
> ways in which hybridisation impacts upon the production or creation of
> an artwork. What relationship does this production have with the
> development and influence of new technologies? What
>  implications do intermedial modes have upon the idea of a singular
> artist? Which organisations or institutions inspire or enable the
> creation of hybrid art?
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> Hybridity and sites of exhibition:
> what is the relationship between the intermedial art and how it is
> exhibited? Is there a convergence between performance and exhibition?
> How is the exhibition of such work impacted by technology?
>  Or is it technological itself (such as the internet)?
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>
>
> ·
> Hybridity and theory: work on the
> historical or future discourse of intermediality. What implication does
> contemporary “merging media” hold for theory? How should hybrid arts be
> theorised and which elements – such as production,
>  exhibition or audience interaction – should be centralised in this
> scholarly debate?
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>
> Please send abstracts (300 words) for proposed papers, panels or
> performances and a short biographical note to
> [log in to unmask]
> Deadline for submissions is
> 13th December 2013. Should you have any queries, please contact us at the
> e-mail address above.
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>
> Conference Organisation Committee
> Emre Caglayan, Frances Kamm, Keeley Saunders, Pete Sillett
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> Website: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/mergingmedia/
> Twitter: @mergingmedia14
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