Journeys Across Media: Manifestations of Media Technology
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Journeys Across Media: Manifestations of Media Technology
JAM 2006 at the University of Reading
Friday 21 April 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day conference based in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, organised by and for postgraduate students on a national and international level, which aims to provide a discussion forum for current research in the areas of film, theatre, television and 'new media'.
Established in 2003, JAM has proven successful in providing an opportunity for postgraduate students to gain experience in presenting aspects of their research as a conference paper within a friendly environment. This is the fourth consecutive year that this highly popular event is happening, and we warmly invite postgraduates working on film, theatre, television and 'new media' to submit proposals on the theme outlined below.
Experimentation with and exploration of New Media technologies has generated a growing interest in the study of apparatus within the visual arts. New technologies often share traits with older forms and this connection has led scholars to the comparative study of technological innovations within the history of media. Whilst significant work has been produced on the use of sound and lighting, further technical aspects of theatre, the practices and possibilities of the camera, CGI, etc, there is much scope for greater exploration. Technology has been seen as essential to the study of texts and the increasingly self-reflexive character of cultural products has transformed the apparatus itself into a visual sign with further implications. The main purpose of this year's JAM conference is to bring to
the fore the uses and abuses of old and new technologies in cinema, video art, television and theatre and to situate them within critical and cultural approaches.
Technological apparatus to consider might include cameras, film stock or video formats, sound recording methods, lighting, vision mixing, chromakey or stage and studio apparatus, as well as digital and new media technologies.
Possible questions to address:
.. How are the technologies used in film, television, new media or theatre
practices encoded in the meaning, style or aesthetic of a work?
.. What are the advantages and limitations of a specific technical apparatus?
.. How does technical equipment or a technological process increase, enhance or alter the possibilities of representation? Relevant issues might include a technology's interaction with performance or its effect on visual and audio style as well as the various applications of digital compositing and animation.
.. How does the combination of different media technologies, or 'intermedialities' create new aesthetic or ontological considerations?
.. How is technology used self-reflexively in a media text?
.. How are the properties of different media formats, such as DVD and video exploited within the marketing and packaging of media works and what effect does this have on the original text?
The day is expected to run from 10am to 5pm.
Papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words plus a biographical note by Monday 30th January 2006
to:
Leah Panos/Kostas Kostantinidis
The Department of Film, Theatre & Television
University of Reading
Bulmershe Court
Reading, RG6 1HY
or e-mail JAM2006@hotmail.co.uk
Visit the JAM2006 website http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/jam.htm#JAM_2006
for a registration form.
Journeys Across Media: Manifestations of Media Technology
JAM 2006 at the University of Reading
Friday 21 April 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day conference based in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, organised by and for postgraduate students on a national and international level, which aims to provide a discussion forum for current research in the areas of film, theatre, television and 'new media'.
Established in 2003, JAM has proven successful in providing an opportunity for postgraduate students to gain experience in presenting aspects of their research as a conference paper within a friendly environment. This is the fourth consecutive year that this highly popular event is happening, and we warmly invite postgraduates working on film, theatre, television and 'new media' to submit proposals on the theme outlined below.
Experimentation with and exploration of New Media technologies has generated a growing interest in the study of apparatus within the visual arts. New technologies often share traits with older forms and this connection has led scholars to the comparative study of technological innovations within the history of media. Whilst significant work has been produced on the use of sound and lighting, further technical aspects of theatre, the practices and possibilities of the camera, CGI, etc, there is much scope for greater exploration. Technology has been seen as essential to the study of texts and the increasingly self-reflexive character of cultural products has transformed the apparatus itself into a visual sign with further implications. The main purpose of this year's JAM conference is to bring to
the fore the uses and abuses of old and new technologies in cinema, video art, television and theatre and to situate them within critical and cultural approaches.
Technological apparatus to consider might include cameras, film stock or video formats, sound recording methods, lighting, vision mixing, chromakey or stage and studio apparatus, as well as digital and new media technologies.
Possible questions to address:
.. How are the technologies used in film, television, new media or theatre
practices encoded in the meaning, style or aesthetic of a work?
.. What are the advantages and limitations of a specific technical apparatus?
.. How does technical equipment or a technological process increase, enhance or alter the possibilities of representation? Relevant issues might include a technology's interaction with performance or its effect on visual and audio style as well as the various applications of digital compositing and animation.
.. How does the combination of different media technologies, or 'intermedialities' create new aesthetic or ontological considerations?
.. How is technology used self-reflexively in a media text?
.. How are the properties of different media formats, such as DVD and video exploited within the marketing and packaging of media works and what effect does this have on the original text?
The day is expected to run from 10am to 5pm.
Papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words plus a biographical note by Monday 30th January 2006
to:
Leah Panos/Kostas Kostantinidis
The Department of Film, Theatre & Television
University of Reading
Bulmershe Court
Reading, RG6 1HY
or e-mail JAM2006@hotmail.co.uk
Visit the JAM2006 website http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/jam.htm#JAM_2006
for a registration form.
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