2016

Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects are encountered through changing weather patterns, including the storms, floods, and droughts that afflict communities across the world. They are also encountered through different forms of representation: a novel imagining a desiccated future Earth; a television documentary about coral bleaching; a graph of rising global temperatures. Researchers increasingly understand climate change as a cultural and political issue, and are concerned with the ways in which it is mediated in different contexts, and to different audiences.

University of Leeds

Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017

Installation as an interactive experience: a phenomenological and cognitive approach in an interartistic and intercultural perspective.

We are soliciting chapter abstracts for an edited collection tentatively titled

“Critical Distance: New Explorations in Documentary Theory and Practice.”

The field of documentary studies has vastly expanded since the early 1990s when foundational publications established the critical paradigms towards which scholars would gravitate to shed light on nonfiction film. Over the past two decades, a number of dedicated journals, annual conferences, and book series have consolidated documentary studies under the leadership of an active community of scholars. 

Abstract submissions: Geomedia 2017 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as thematic panels in English through the conference website:www.geomedia.se

Individual paper proposals: The author submits an abstract of 200-250 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers according to thematic area. Thematic panel proposals: The chair of the panel submits a proposal consisting of 4-5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200-250 words.

September 26th 2016: Submission system opens December 9th 2016: Deadline for thematic panel and individual paper proposals

We invite submissions of proposals for academic papers, performances, projects, personal narratives, and artistic installations, addressing these themes. We also welcome preconstituted panels and workshops around the topics of the conference. 

Practical Information 

Abstracts for individual papers and performances (300 words) should be sent in the following format: 1. Title; 2. Presenter(s) + short bio; 3. Institutional affiliation; 4. Abstract; 5. Key words; 6. Technical requirements. Proposals for pre-organized panels and workshops should additionally include a summary paragraph along with proposed session title. 

All submitted abstracts, panel proposals, and workshop proposals will be peer reviewed by the conference committee. Deadline for abstracts is the 1^st of December 2016. Send the submissions or any questions to: admin@newmaterialism.eu. 

More information: www.newmaterialism.eu 

The Power of Plasticity - AAH2017

_{43rd Annual Conference & Art Book Fair}

_{Loughborough University}

_{6th to 8th April 2017}

_{The Power of Plasticity}

Convenors: AAH2017

PAPER PROPOSALS: This is the third biennial, international, interdisciplinary TALKING BODIES conference, and 20-minute papers are invited on topics related to its themes. Scholars, practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines (art, performance, art history, social history, and history of science, medical humanities, literary criticism, theology, (eco)feminism, political theory, medicine, jurisprudence, and more) are invited to submit proposals. Questions to be considered include (but are absolutely not limited to):

Visible Evidence, the international conference on documentary film and media, will convene for its 24th year in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2-5, 2017. VE2017 is hosted in collaboration with the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), Revista Cine Documental and the Argentine Association of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (AsAECA). The conference will take place at the Centro Cultural Borges (Borges Cultural Center) above the traditional Galerías Pacífico and at the Margarita Xirgu theater in the historical neighborhood of San Telmo

The fields of new materialism(s) and transgender studies are both developing rapidly, with exciting interdisciplinary work being conducted (Hayward, 2010; Irni, 2013; Simpkins, 2016). However, there is seldom a platform where academic, artists and activist researchers working with these streams can share ideas and collaborate. It is often at the intersection of academic, artistic and activist work that new imageries are proposed, and trans matters explored, (dis)organized, visibilized and politicized. This special issue aims at opening up this platform for interdisciplinary discussion around the theme of trans-materialities.

Call for papers The Dutch Journal for Gender Studies

(Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies)

Special Issue: “‘Now What?’ New Feminist Materialisms (NFM)? Contemporary and Future Directions”

Deadline for electronic submission of 350-400 word abstract (plus brief biographical statement and sample 5-item bibliography): November 1, 2016.  Notification by December 1, 2016.

Commissioned chapters should not exceed 5,000 words and must be completed by October 1, 2017.

The Leonardo Pioneers and Pathbreakers Project, in anticipation of Leonardo journal’s 50th anniversary, seeks papers dealing with the history of developments in the arts, sciences and technology and the art-science movements.

Call for Papers Word and Music Studies: 11th International Conference August 9–12, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

Arts of Incompletion: Fragments, Drafts, Revisions in Words and Music

The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) takes pleasure in announcing its Eleventh International Conference to be held in Stockholm on August 9–12, 2017. The conference will take place at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Previous conferences of the association have been held in Graz, Ann Arbor, Sydney, Berlin, Santa Barbara, Edinburgh, Vienna, Santa Fe, London, and New York, with conference proceedings published in the Association’s book series, Word and Music Studies (WMS). Papers from members of the WMA will be considered for inclusion in a further volume in the same series.

Mediality – Multimodality – Materiality: Concepts for Media and Image Studies in the Era of the »Technosphere« 

Bilingual Conference on Moving Image Sciences in Kiel, Germany, 4th to 6th May 2017 

Proposals including a title, a 250-300-word abstract with a short bio-bibliography in English or French are to be sent to Claudine Armand, Gilles Marseille, Gilles Couderc and Marcin Stawiarski by October 1st 2016.

Voice(s) and Silence in the Arts

ICAT-EGVE 2016 will be 26th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2016) and the 21th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE 2016) in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.  Deadline: 30. September 

Call for papers for a special issue in the “International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology”

Audiovisual media are the basis for most of our experiences today. In a postdigital and postmedia age, they are a crucial element constituting the environment in which we are immersed, act, and sense ourselves and others. Furthermore, it is through media that we expand our sensorial abilities and redefine our own identity.t, and sense ourselves and others. Furthermore, it is through media that we expand our sensorial abilities and redefine our own identity.

Call for papers for The Third Nomadikon and Center for the Ethics of Seeing Conference - Memphis, November 7-8, 2016 - Comfort Inn Downtown, Memphis. Extended deadline for application: 1th of August 2016.

Call for papers for Yearbook of Moving Image Studies: "Image Temporality: The Relation of Time, Space and Reception of Visual Media". Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2016

PLUNC’s second edition will take place in the riverine areas of Lisbon and Almada, between September 29th and October 2nd, 2016. The Open Call is now open up until July 17th. You can submit finished projects, prototypes, ideas and original experiences in the realm of digital art and new media. Interactive projects that involve the public, either through the results or through interactive processes implicit in the execution. The selected projects will integrate the festival’s exhibition. The call results will be announced on August 8th

Call for Papers for South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Jacksonville, FL, 4–6 November 2016: the Association of Adaptation Studies. Deadline June 3rd 2016.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, edited by Bettina Papenburg, Liv Hausken, Ingvil Hellstrand, Sigrid Schmitz, and Natasha Myers. Extended deadline for application: 31st of May 2016.

Call for papers for the Annual Meeting of the working groups Media, Public Spheres and Gender and Visual Communication in the DGPuK (German Society for Journalism and Communication Science).

Deadline: 9. May 2016