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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700" class="">CFP<br class="">
The Movement Movement: Histories of Microanalysis at the Intersection of Film, Science
and Art
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
June 4–6, 2020
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">The desire to study the motion of humans and other animals is deeply embedded in the technological,
social and aesthetic histories of film. For a long time, the focus was on individual behavior and
individual actors. This changed in the 1950s and 1960s when anthropologists, psychologists, linguists,
sociologists and ethologists increasingly turned to film to analyze movement as an element in systems
of social interaction. Informed by cybernetics, systems theory and structural linguistics, researchers
such as Ray L. Birdwhistell, Gregory Bateson, Nikolaas Tinbergen and Adam Kendon looked for
patterns in what they regarded as the continuous, multi-sensorial stream of interaction/communication
behavior. Film and later video became important tools to tap into this stream, to stabilize it and facilitate
close attention to minute details through repeated viewings of brief stretches of interaction. Bringing to
consciousness “visible, yet unseen” phenomena that sometimes lasted for only fractions of a second,
film promised to open a window onto the microtemporalities and processuality of social systems. But
such analysis also reflected back on the (micro-)temporalities of film itself. This point was not lost on
experimental filmmakers like Hollis Frampton, who drew on studies of movement interaction in his
theoretical and aesthetic reflections on film. The field of interaction studies also overlapped with
developments in contemporary dance and performance art, drawing choreographers like Irmgard
Bartenieff and Forrestine Paulay into the circles of communication research, while also influencing
aesthetic approaches to dance and performance.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">This conference aims at exploring these often overlooked intersections of social science, ethology,
experimental film and the performing arts in the 1960s and 1970s across the disciplines of film and
media studies, history of science, visual anthropology and art history. It addresses questions of science
policy during the Cold War in the East and West, epistemologies of the moving image, scales of
observation, and interrelations between analytical and aesthetic procedures. It also addresses the
question of how film was integrated, in various ways, into wider media assemblages/environments,
including notational systems, viewing equipment, diagrams, and artistic performances. Considering the
entanglements of cinematic movement, movement interaction research and artistic practices, the
conference seeks to open an historical perspective on recent debates on media change and the
relocation of film.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">The conference is part of the DFG research project “Transdisciplinary Networks of Media Knowledge”
at Philipps-Universität Marburg.</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'" class="">Possible topics might include:</span></p><p class=""><font face="ArialMT" size="2" class="">- cinematic movement research and changing science policies in the 1960s and 1970s</font></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- case studies/histories of filmic interaction research</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- visual anthropologies of movement and gesture</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- psychiatric and diagnostic uses of film and video</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- media assemblages of movement studies</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- microtemporalities in theories and philosophies of film</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- intersections between microanalysis and experimental film</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- the role of modern dance and dance notations for research on movement interaction</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">- research film archives and archives of experimental film</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">Proposals should be submitted to <a href="mailto:henning.engelke@uni-marburg.de" class="">henning.engelke@uni-marburg.de</a> by November 15, 2019. Please include a 250 - 500 word abstract and a current CV. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by November 30. The conference will take place at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, on June 4–6, 2020.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: small;" class="">Conference organizers:</span></p><p class=""><font face="ArialMT" size="2" class="">Henning Engelke and Sophia Gräfe, DFG-Heisenberg-Project “Transdisciplinary Networks of Media Knowledge”, Institute of Media Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg </font></p><p class="">Link: <a href="https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb09/medienwissenschaft/pdfs/cfp_movement_movement_2020.pdf" class="">https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb09/medienwissenschaft/pdfs/cfp_movement_movement_2020.pdf</a></p><p class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></p></div></div></div>
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