[spectre] *last weekend* Call for papers: Besides the Screen International Conference (Coventry, 20-22 July)

[Gabriel Menotti]

CFP: PROJECTION / GEOMETRY / PERFORMANCE
A Besides the Screen International Conference and Exhibition
Coventry University, 20-22 July 2016

Confirmed keynotes: Charlotte Brunsdon (Warwick, UK); Nelson Brissac
(PUC-SP, Brazil)

Deadline for proposals: 1st May 2016

>From shadow puppetry to videomapping and holography, projection is one of
the central activities in moving image practices. Being at the same time a
precise geometrical operation and the main underpinning of cinematographic
artifice, it has a highly ambiguous existence: Siegfried Zielinski once
dubbed projection “a media strategy located between proof of truth and
illusioning;” Sean Cubitt, in turn, has underscored how it produces a state
of simultaneous “vanishing and becoming.” While performing the articulation
from space to surface and vice-versa, projection enacts the very
translation of dimensions that, according to Vilém Flusser, is responsible
for the creation of images. The investigation of projection thus brings
forth the performativity of media.

We are looking for papers and projects that survey this heterogenous
character of projection and its relation to a wide range of moving image
practices to be presented at the next Besides the Screen International
Conference, to be held in late July 2016 at Coventry University, United
Kingdom.

It is possible to participate with papers, workshops, performances, artist
presentations and artworks that address topics such as:

– old, new and future projection technologies
– the labor, role and possible agency of the projectionist
– projection theories
– architectures for (and against) projection
– projection as psychological process and/or mathematical operation
– unconventional projection geometries and sites
– the use of projection in the hard sciences and art installations
– audiovisual performances, live cinema, vjing
– mobile projection, light graffiti, pop-up cinemas
– videomapping, dome projection, planetariums
– holography, pepper's ghost, shadow puppetry, phantasmagorias

To submit a proposal, send an abstract (~300 words) and a short
biographical note (~150 words) to the email besidesthescreen at gmail.com,
indicating in the subject SUBMISSION: BESIDES THE SCREEN 2016. The deadline
is 25th April 2016.

Besides the Screen is an international research network that aims to
reconfigure the field of screen studies by refocusing it on the objects,
processes and practices that exist besides the screen. The project is
currently supported by the British Arts & Humanities Research Council. More
info can be found at besidesthescreen.com
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