Dear all,
the Department of Film, Television and Scenography, Aalto University, Helsinki, invites academic scholars, graduate students, and independent scholars to participate in the follow-up INTERACTIVE E-BOOK publication based on the two-day international conference on the "Influence of A. Bogdanov’s systemic thinking on film arts via the Proletkult-movement", held at Aalto University on May 15-16, 2014.
The Tangential Points biannual conference brings together international scholars from sciences and arts to discuss historical and contemporary tangenting points between distinct fields. Each time a new specific topic will provide participants with a playground for creating, sharing, and cultivating a multiplicity of novel, even radical tangential points between sciences and arts.
The 1st meeting aimed at linking the early Russian systemic thinking with the montage thinking that emerged within the film community in the first half of the 20th century. The young Sergei M. Eisenstein, among other artists, joined the Proletkult, a cross-disciplinary movement aiming to revolutionize culture, arts, and sciences. The medical doctor Alexander Bogdanov was the ideological father of this movement. Bogdanov held regular lectures, which embedded his tektological idea of organization as a universal mechanism of nature and society. Once V.I. Lenin’s closest collaborator, Bogdanov soon became his worst rival, and his systemic ideas were doomed to vanish from the Soviet history until their re-discovery in the 1980s.
To reach for present day, one may even ask, to what extent are these early systemic ideas recycled in contemporary media art theories?
This year 2015 is devoted to the interactive e-book publication (The Aalto University Tangential Points Publication Series)
WORKING TITLE: Reflections of early Russian systemic thinking on film arts and culture.
Bogdanov, Eisenstein, and the Proletkult
An interactive e-book anthology allows multiple perspectives, produces outline that is personalized based on reader’s preferences, and can be explored in the internet.
Developed in collaboration with Mauri Kaipainen, Perspicamus Oy.
Note, the e-book format will allow print on demand book in paper, as well.
ABSTRACT:
Call for papers to the Interactive anthology is open. To express your interest in contributing, please send an abstract/short bio to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Full details on the CFP are available here:
http://aaltowebstudio.cloudapp.net/tangentialpoints/cfp-spherical-book-an-interactive-anthology/
http://aaltowebstudio.cloudapp.net/tangentialpoints/
2016 CONFERENCE (topic t.b.c.)
Supported by The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Aleksanteri-Institute, and NeuroCine research project at Department of Film, Television and Scenography, Aalto University.
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