A call for papers has been made by Museu del Cinema, The Department of History & History of Art at the University of Girona and the Ministry Project “Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences”. The organisers are seeking papers that respond to:
Topic A: Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences
- Media archaeology. The archaeological study of the devices previous or contemporary to the cinematograph might be helpful to introduce the History of cinema inside a much broader process, focused on the evolution of visual devices, screens and projection/audition systems.
- The viewer experience in the face of the visual spectacles. In order to comprehend the devices’ impact. It is fundamental to know which was the audience experience in front of the images.
- Virtual experiences on early films. Another research path might draw from the period existing films, in order to check how new sensorial ways are glimpsed in them. The idea of considering early cinema films as spaces to the visual attraction can lead us to consider the realist simulation effects that they gather.
- Immersive spectacles and virtualization. The study of leisure spaces from them past reflects the existence of hybrid spectacle systems, between cinema, theatre, magic lantern which proposed specific forms of exhibition and enhanced theatre viewer immersion in possible worlds.
- Bridges between the past and the development of virtual technology in the present. It is possible to establish a thinking that carries out a revision of the past through a double logic based on the analysis of the re-use by the new technologies of pre-existing techniques and other based on the aesthetic reflection around virtuality modes in the present and its connection with other aesthetic achievements that were developed in a moment of transformation and reuse of the means of communication.
Topic B: pre-cinema and early cinema
- Presentation of works in progress on pre-cinema or cinema until 1915.
Deadline for papers: 5 May 2021
Conference 20 and 21 October 2021.
See more here: https://www.girona.cat/shared/admin/docs/c/a/call_for_papers.eng.pdf
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