*CFP* "ANIMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. RETHINKING IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGY", 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FILM STUDIES

Animation in the 21st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology

27th International Conference of Film Studies

Rome, 25-26 November 2021

Roma Tre University

Online – Microsoft Teams platform

 

The 27th International Conference of Film Studies Animation in the 21st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology aims to investigate the critical role played by animation in contemporary audio-visual culture. Animated images have a significant and crucial position in current Film and Media Studies: they are the audio-visual horizon in which some of the most decisive and stimulating technological, aesthetic, narrative, political, and cultural challenges are faced. While contemporary works retain some of the fundamental elements of the tradition of animated film, taking them to a new level of sophistication, they also continue to represent a field of absolute experimentation in their audio and visual aspects.

*CFP* "CRITICAL ICT INFRASTRUCTURES AND PLATFORMS", 14TH CMI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 Critical ICT infrastructures and platforms

14th CMI International Conference

Hybrid (online/In-person): 25-26 November 2021

 

ICT infrastructures and platforms are increasingly pervasive and critical for societies, systems and organizations and for individuals. It is, therefore, of great importance that efficient and resilient infrastructures are developed and deployed and that disruptions of services caused by either cyber-attacks or other interruptions of services are mitigated. Also, as digital platforms constitute crucial communication infrastructures for societies, it is important that such platforms contribute to democratic processes and economic and social fairness.

The 14th CMI conference will be concerned with these topics from different complementary angles: The development and deployment of fast and efficient communication infrastructures including cloud and edge technologies; resilience of ICT systems in order to increase cyber security and mitigate cyber-attacks; institution of social practices and governance approaches that will promote democratic discussions and processes, contribute to economic and social development, equity and fairness, and protect privacy.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION, FILM HISTORY BOOK SERIES

We are seeking proposals for complete/in-progress/planned manuscripts and edited collections for a proposed book series. The series will focus on film history: both the history of film as media texts and the history/evolution of the cinematic apparatus.

RIT press has expressed interest in this series and has asked that we secure some projects before moving forward with approval. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• classical films, directors, and genres 
• early cinematic technology 
• historical advances in cinematic technology 
• historical politics and propaganda in film 
• historical analysis of the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of film 
• historical adaptations 
• production histories – the studio system and beyond 

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPACIÓN, II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL COMUNICACIÓN ESPECIALIZADA

II Congreso Internacional Comunicación Especializada

18 y 19 de Noviembre de 2021 (híbrido)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad de Málaga

 

 

El periodista especializado se halla entre las fuentes expertas, protagonistas de la noticia, por un lado, y las audiencias interesadas en determinados contenidos, por otra. Para informar a los ciudadanos sobre los mecanismos del mercado o de la administración de Justicia; para contarles los descubrimientos de las ciencias o los fichajes de los clubes deportivos siempre ha sido necesario, en efecto, un profesional que entienda lo que hacen y declaran las fuentes, por un lado; y capaz, al mismo tiempo, de divulgarlo entre personas que, no teniendo una particular formación en esas materias, las siguen con particular interés y tratan de conocerlas y comprenderlas para estar a la altura del tiempo en el que viven.

*CFP* "ANIMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. RETHINKING IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGY", 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FILM STUDIES

Animation in the 21^st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology

Roma Tre University

Rome, 25-26 November 2021

The conference aims to propose a reflection that examines the dynamics and mechanisms behind the creation of some of the most interesting national and international contemporary animation trends. The topics will place them in close connection with the current media scenario (cinema, advertising, videogames, the web, animated documentaries, TV series, contemporary art, digital culture) and with transmedia aesthetic and narrative forms originating from different cultural paradigms.

The conference will pay particular attention to the conjunction between theories and practices and between mainstream and experimental forms. Hence, it intends to investigate animated films as an industrial, narrative, aesthetic and ideological “system” promoting imaginaries, aesthetics, and values. It also delves into the production of artists who move on the borders, free from conditioning and devoted to the more advanced technological research. Therefore, the conference’s overall aim is to revitalize and address the concept of animation in contemporary visual culture, investigating its theoretical, historical, political, and cultural nature in relation to the new moving images.

*CFP* "POPULARIZING STEM: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN 21ST-CENTURY US POPULAR CULTURE", THE POPMEC ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2021

"Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture"

The PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies

15-19 November 2021 (mixed format conference)

 

We are particularly interested in presentations that seek to engage with questions of intersectional discrimination in STEM representations in popular culture, spanning from cultural products aimed at dissemination and debate on STEM to texts such as films, TV series, comics and graphic novels, genre fiction, video games, new media narratives.

Deadline for submission: August 1, 2021. 

Submit your abstract proposal (~ 300 words) at popmec.stem@gmail.com as an attachment, including name, affiliation if any, and contact email. Depending on the proposals and participants’ response, an editorial project might originate from the conference.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, THE 20TH IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING

 "The 20th IFIP International conference on Entertainment computing"

University of Coimbra (Portugal)

November 2 – 5, 2021

The 20th International Federation for Information Processing - International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2021) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on Nov. 2-5, 2021: The conference is organized by the IFIP-ICEC TC14 - Entertainment Computing Technical Committee, and will be hosted by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), in association with the Portuguese Society for the Sciences of Videogames.

 

IFIP TC14 aims to encourage research, development and sharing of innovative ideas, models and practices, on computer applications in entertainment. To enhance computation and use studies in this field, the technical program committee invites original submissions.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN PÚBLICA DE LA CIENCIA Y LA TECNOLOGÍA EN IBEROAMÉRICA", NÚMERO MAYO 2022, REVISTA CUADERNOS.INFO: COMUNICACIÓN Y MEDIOS EN IBEROAMÉRICA

La comunicación pública de la ciencia y de la tecnología constituye un área de vital importancia para el desarrollo social. La divulgación científica es fundamental para una educación social en ciencias que contribuya a que las personas tomen decisiones y juzguen del modo más objetivo e informado posible (Calvo, 1992). Durante décadas, los científicos, los políticos, los periodistas, conservadores de museos y otras personas a nivel comunitario interesadas en la comunicación pública de la ciencia y la tecnología han trabajado para mejorar su comprensión (Lewenstein, 2003). Nuestra región no está ajena a diversos problemas sociales; algunas áreas principales de conflicto son la salud, el medioambiente y el atraso hacia el desarrollo sustentable. La comunicación del conocimiento científico sería una forma de contribuir a superarlos (Kreimer & Zabala, 2006), considerando también la importancia de que las personas accedan a la información científica, la comprendan y le den un uso adecuado. No obstante, en América Latina el acceso a la comunicación científica está segregado y, por lo tanto, los grupos sociales mejor posicionados tendrían mayor posibilidad de apropiarse de la cultura científica (Polino, 2019).  

En Chile, por ejemplo, un 48,37% de las personas se sentiría poco informada sobre ciencia y 41,51%, poco informada sobre tecnología (Centro de Microdatos Universidad de Chile, 2019). Desde marzo de 2020, la pandemia del coronavirus ha desencadenado un desafío sanitario mundial que involucra a todos los sectores de la sociedad; esta epidemia ha puesto a prueba el tratamiento de la información en los medios de comunicación y en primer plano la relevancia de la comunicación pública de la ciencia y la tecnología en su manejo y relación con la población, no solamente en el ámbito iberoamericano, sino a nivel global. 

*CFP* "DESIGNING FOR PLAY AS A CULTURAL PARTICIPATION CHILDHOOD. SEEKING NEW GROUNDS", SPECIAL ISSUE, REVISTA CONJUNCTIONS: TRANSDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

This special issue of Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation invites contributions that explore children's play as cultural participation and production empirically and theoretically, especially in how we can design for cultural participation and production.

The recognition of the importance of play in childhood is deeply rooted in the Nordic research on child culture. For years the Nordic studies of children have been defending children's right to unguided play, driven by the participants as a fundamental condition for participatory cultural practice in childhood. At the same time, the conditions for children's play have changed fundamentally, and as a result of this, the conditions for children having the possibilities to explore their capacity as cultural producers have also changed. We have seen a decline in children’s traditional and self-governed participatory play culture. The unguarded play has become scarce, replaced by monitored places and transparent architecture in day-care, kindergarten, schools, and homes. This creates new challenges for contemporary play research and practices if we still want to promote play as cultural participation and production.

The question is how we can design for play, driven by the participants. Design for play in that sense demands high awareness of how we think and define play in theory as well as in everyday practice, addressing the possibilities for participation as productive play culture.

*CFP* "VIRTUAL WORLDS IN EARLY CINEMA: DEVICES, AESTHETICS AND AUDIENCES", 13TH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF CINEMA

13th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema

Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences

Online edition, October 20th - 22nd 2021

Universitat de Girona & Museu del cinema

 

The seminar Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences comes from an obvious desire for articulating a clear relationship among cinema’s past and contemporary audiovisual’s present. The nodal point of the project is the concept of virtual worlds. As Pierre Lévy states, we assist nowadays before a “general movement of virtualization has begun to affect not only the fields of information and communication but also our physical presence and economic activities, as well as the collective framework of sensibility and the exercise of intelligence. The process of virtualization has even affected our modalities of being together, the constitution of a collective "we" in the form of virtual communities, virtual corporations, virtual democracy...”.

*CFP* "NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS", EDITED COLLECTION

This edited collection will consider Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history as well as a key cultural object with lasting impact. The book will be inserted in Bloomsbury’s Key Film/Filmmakers in Animation series.

In the thirty years since its release, Nightmare Before Christmas has drawn repeated academic attention. Many of these contributions have seen the film as an entry point to larger arguments about Tim Burton’s work, whether in terms of its animation (Cuthill 2017), representations of gender (Mitchell 2017), and use of fairy tales (Burger 2017). Less often, Nightmare Before Christmas has been considered in relation to other frameworks, such as its presence beyond the film industry, in theme parks (Williams 2020a, 2020b), and the way it negotiated changing cultural expectations of children’s media and horror (Antunes 2020). Though this literature has shed light on several aspects of the film’s significance, there is to date no sustained scholarly inquiry that brings these insights together and examines the historical and cultural significance specifically of Nightmare Before Christmas. This edited collection seeks to address this gap, considering the different layers of meanings and history of Nightmare Before Christmas from pre-production to the present day.

*CFP* "THE ALLURE OF OBSOLESCENCE", INAUGURAL ISSUE, ARTIFACT & APPARATUS: JOURNAL OF MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY

We are excited to announce the launch of and call for papers for a new peer-reviewed, open-access online journal, Artifact & Apparatus: Journal of Media Archaeology. We invite scholars, curators, and practitioners from art history, film and media studies, library and information science, science and technology studies, and related fields to contribute articles on the history, theory, aesthetics, and practice of media objects, broadly conceived. From digital information networks to early electrical communications tools; from closed-circuit video surveillance systems to mechanical typewriters; and from pre-cinematic optical toys to virtual reality artworks, we invite contributors to reconsider the material objects that record, store, transmit, and reproduce texts, images, sounds, and information.

Why "artifact and apparatus"? We want to harness these words' multiple meanings to encourage a revision of media history grounded in its material artifacts and technological apparatuses—both physical and virtual objects (lantern slides, video files, wax cylinders, newsprint) and the traces of their mediation and marks of their materiality (signal loss, bit-rot, deterioration, decomposition), as well as the instruments, machines, devices, and equipment (computers, cameras, cables, projectors) and their functions and dispositifs.

*CFP* "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE", ISSUE 117, VIEWFINDER MAGAZINE

ViewFinder Magazine Issue 117 is now open for submission from writers, academics, researchers, and video essayists. We will be exploring AI and its relationship with audiovisual media.

We’re looking for articles and essays with a focus on Artificial Intelligence plus the future of education, audiovisual and online teaching are most welcome.

• How are people using AI to study and analyse television and film? 
• What is the potential of AI in audiovisual academic research, particularly in using archive? 
• How can AI help us improve teaching with audiovisual material? 
• How is AI, Augmented Reality and Computer Vision already informing teaching visually across disciplines?
• What ethical issues are there around AI use and images online, how will computer vision look in the future, what are our responsibilities and what is exciting about AI?
• How has AI been represented on screen in the past, how might stories about AI look in the future?

*CFP* "PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY", THEMATIC ISSUE, JOURNAL ATHENA: PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES

Journal Athena: Philosophical Studies invites to submit the articles for the thematic issue Philosophical Reflections on Media and Technology.

Media and technology are important topics in contemporary philosophical reflections. They were discussed in the works of renowned thinkers, such as B. Latour, D. Harraway, B. Stiegler, F. Kittler – to name only a few – their insights have shaped the way we live and think in our highly technologized world.

However, recent technological developments and the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence urge us to think further about the impact of media on culture and humans, and formulate bolder hypotheses concerning the modes of technological existence and agency. Moreover, the new media and the smart technologies invite us to reconceptualize the classical philosophical questions and define the new ontological, epistemological, and ethical aspects of media and technology.

*CFP* CALL FOR AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY SUBMISSIONS, THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE ARTS

JSTA (SCOPUS-indexed) aims to create a conceptual discussion around the audiovisual essay, not only as a creative process but also as a pedagogical and academic tool, to generate concepts and criteria for evaluation and scientific consideration. (Please see a version of our first audiovisual essay here).

Therefore, Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts is open to submissions of original audiovisual essays made with films, excerpts and other moving images. Works can have up to 15 minutes and should provide original insights in areas such as film and audiovisual studies; media studies; contemporary art; social sciences. Works submitted should not have been proposed to any other academic publication, despite the possibility of dissemination in other circuits. The call will not be restricted to academic practitioners but the process of evaluation will follow its procedures.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE, ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

International Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Arts, Social Science & Humanities

March 20, 2021, | Jakarta, Indonesia

(Virtual/Online Conference)

 

The world is witnessing an unprecedented advancement and innovative approaches in various fields of science that shaped our life. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from all parts of the world. It provides researchers ample opportunities for exposure to diverse experience in different fields; to exchange new ideas and experiences face to face; to link to global counterparts; to meet their peers; to enhance their potential and widen horizons and scope for future research.

ICLLASH2021 Conference brings together researchers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 4, Nº 1, MEDIA LITERACY AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH JOURNAL

Media Literacy and Academic Research is inviting papers for Vol. 4, No. 1 which is scheduled to be published on April 2021.

Media Literacy and Academic Research is a high-quality open access peer- reviewed journal focused on the academic reflection of media and information literacy issues, media education, critical thinking, digital media and new trends in related areas of media and communication studies. The journal is devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to the interdisciplinary academic discussion, the results of empirical research and the mutual interaction of expertise in media and information studies, education studies as well as their sociological, psychological, political, linguistic and technological aspects.

The journal is now indexed in these databases: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) – Web of Science Core Collection, ERIH Plus, Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, CEEOL, CEJSH and Index Copernicus. Moreover the journal is under the indexing process with Scopus, Cabell´s Directories and EBSCO.

*CFP* "A CRITICAL COMPANION TO JULIE TAYMOR", CRITICAL COMPANIONS TO CONTEMPORARY DIRECTORS LEXINGTON BOOKS SERIES

Considered as a true visionary, Julie Taymor is one of the of the most experimental and intellectually engaged film and theatrical directors working today. Her fusion of folklore, pop-culture, and classic literature has resulted in a series of fascinating and intellectually demanding works, both on stage and screen. From her beginnings with downtown not-for-profit theater through her Broadway successes and failures to her idiosyncratic career in Hollywood, Taymor has proven herself a notable and important artist. 

This collection will explore Taymor’s career, with an emphasis on her work in film, from Fool’s Fire (1992) to more renown productions such as Titus (1999), Frida (2002), The Tempest (2010) and the recent The Glorias (2020). As the first comprehensive scholarly volume on Taymor, covering her entire career in cinema, we are currently inviting the submission of 250-300 word abstracts for essays to be included in A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor set to be published in the Lexington Books series Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors, edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna.

*CFP* "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE BBC", SPECIAL ISSUE, CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION

In 2022, one hundred years will have passed since the formation of the British Broadcasting Company, later to become the pioneering public service broadcaster best known as the BBC. The BBC has had an enormous impact on television culture in its first one hundred years, providing a blueprint for independent publicly funded broadcasting. The BBC has been a testing ground for new developments in broadcasting technology and infrastructure. It has provided space for programme makers to innovate new forms, as well as to display national traditions - and invent some of its own. It has offered important public space to playwrights, scientists, politicians, musicians, historians, performers and many more thinkers to enlighten, to amuse, to infuriate. 

Its formative mantra of ‘inform, educate, entertain’ has undergone many modifications over time but these aims remain core to its contemporary ethos. Its goal of providing impartial and balanced news, current affairs and analysis has been tested numerous times in divisive political climates. It was born of a patriarchal, colonialist and elitist view of cultural uplift. How has it changed over its long life?

*CFP* "FASHION, BODY AND CULTURE", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"Fashion, Body and Culture" International Conference

30-31 January 2021

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

 

Applying diverse methods from across subject disciplines the conference will explore fashion and style in wide-ranging contexts. It will examine connections between fashion, body and culture and will focus on dress, cosmetics, coiffure and body alterations (piercing, tattooing, circumcision, aesthetic surgery, etc).

How does our dress or hair style create our identity and status? How is it concerned with sexual and body politics? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal or unique to Western culture? These and other questions we set out to discuss at the conference.