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CFP: (Re-)mediating the Unconscious

9 Oct , 2023 Call for papers,Enaction,Virtual Reality

CFP:  (Re-)mediating the Unconscious

Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
CFP: Volume 30 (2023)

Edited by Maria Poulaki (Aristotle University) & Adriano D’Aloia (University of Bergamo)

Deadline for abstract proposals: November 15, 2023

Screen media and notably cinema have been linked, in theory as well as in the cultural imagination, with non-conscious and preconscious states, as well as with shifts in consciousness. From the early association of cinema with hypnosis, to the 1950s debate over “subliminal messages” contained in advertising, film and other media, the way media can attune to what rests beneath the level of conscious awareness remains an area of intense popular as well as theoretical fascination. The scholarly study of cinema has addressed and cultivated the relation between the medium and the unconscious – from Benjamin’s association of film with the “optical unconscious” in the 1930s, to the sweeping influence of psychoanalysis on film theory in the 1970s, connecting cinema with …

Sensibilità ecologica / Ecological Sensitivity / Sensibilité écologique

14 Jan , 2022 Call for papers,Ecology

Sensibilità ecologica / Ecological Sensitivity / Sensibilité écologique

Sensibilità ecologica. Tecno-estetiche mediali della crisi ambientale

A cura di Adriano D’Aloia (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) e Jacopo Rasmi (Université Jean Monnet – Saint Etienne)

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N. 28/2022
Scadenza: 20 marzo 2022

Presente nel dibattito pubblico da diversi decenni, il tema della crisi ambientale è riemerso con forza a partire dal 2015, anno del varo dell’Agenda 2030 contenente gli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile (tra cui la preservazione di tutte le forme di vita, il contrasto al riscaldamento globale e la produzione di energia pulita e rinnovabile), della pubblicazione dell’enciclica papale Laudato si’ sull’“ecologia integrale” e della stipula degli accordi di Parigi sul cambiamento climatico. Negli anni successivi le tematiche ambientali sono progressivamente penetrate in profondità anche nel terreno della ricerca scientifica, sospinte tanto da finanziamenti istituzionali (come i progetti europei Horizon, NextGeneration EU ecc.) quanto, più in generale, dalla consapevolezza della loro rilevanza culturale e del loro …

Gestalt Filmology. Insights on Form and Embodiment in the Film Experience

14 Jul , 2021 Arnheim,Call for papers,Gestalt

Gestalt Filmology. Insights on Form and Embodiment in the Film Experience

A Cinéma&Cie open access special issue edited by Adriano D’Aloia (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) and Ian Verstegen (University of Pennsylvania)

Deadline for abstract proposals: September 5, 2021

An incipient neurofilmological turn in film and media studies promises to reframe the study of the film experience into a post-cognitive episteme that stresses the idea that the perception of visual and acoustic stimuli implies the activation of embodied forms of simulation. According to the “embodied simulation” hypothesis, the significance of the film experience emerges from the interactive mutuality of an agent (or organism) and environment, and perception evokes internal forms of action that support an empathic understanding of the character’s gestures, intentions, and emotions. These dynamics can be extended to the film’s low-level features (e.g. cinematography, camera movements, editing) and allow one to rethink the aesthetics of the film experience in the light of multimodal sensory perception.

Although the theoretical references …

Immersive Stories. Virtual Reality, Post-Cinema and Storytelling

11 Aug , 2020 Call for papers,Immersion,Virtual Reality

Immersive Stories. Virtual Reality, Post-Cinema and Storytelling

In recent years, virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a new frontier of innovation and experimentation within what is known as “immersive entertainment” — gaming, art, museum exhibitions, TV and cinema. The proliferation on the market of new headsets (from the expensive HTC VIVE and Oculus to the popular Google Cardbox), the spread of platforms, apps and also VR cinemas around the world, and the inclusion of VR productions in international film festivals (e.g. Sundance, Tribeca, Venice) are trends demonstrating that VR is no longer just a fascinating 1980s-inspired literary or cinematic subject (from Tron to the Matrix trilogy, to the recent Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One). VR is also a new way of designing and creating an experience in which the spectator is more directly, immediately, and effectively involved and entertained through immersion and a strong sense of presence, i.e. the illusion of being part of an …

Moda:Media. Culture della moda nella società della comunicazione

11 Feb , 2020 Call for papers,Fashion

Moda:Media. Culture della moda nella società della comunicazione

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Moda:Media. Culture della moda nella società della comunicazione 

A cura di Adriano D’Aloia e Marco Pedroni

 

Nell’era della comunicazione la moda si è progressivamente affermata come un settore dell’industria culturale centrale nella costruzione dell’immaginario. Non a caso negli ultimi anni l’offerta formativa universitaria dedicata alla cultura e al design della moda si è ampliata e vede l’integrazione di contenuti di taglio culturale, storico e sociale ai contenuti più strettamente tecnico-progettuali. Questa tendenza ha rapidamente generato una lacuna nel campo dei cosiddetti fashion studies, un’area di studi interdisciplinare ormai solida nell’ambito accademico internazionale, ma che in Italia non si è ancora affermata con piena autonomia.

Un fronte di promettente sviluppo di tale filone è costituito dal connubio tra gli studi sulla moda e gli studi sulla comunicazione nelle sue numerose sfaccettature, dato il rapporto di intima e reciproca correlazione e contaminazione tra la moda …

Narrative Architectures. Bodies, Spaces, Technologies in Contemporary Media Experience

24 Jan , 2020 Call for papers

Narrative Architectures. Bodies, Spaces, Technologies in Contemporary Media Experience

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Imago. Studi di cinema e media
No. 22, Fall 2020

Edited by Enrico Carocci and Adriano D’Aloia

Deadline: 22 March 2020
Extended Deadline: 5 April 2020

Media have always been able to configure our sense of space. However, in recent years, technological development—which tends to affect the relationship between the individual and the environment more and more deeply—has been radically intensifying this process. More particularly, the spatial dimension has assumed a role of increasing importance in determining the subject’s activity and agency.

Two types of experiences appear particularly interesting in this regard. Those of the first type, which are more immediately relevant to the field of media studies, tend to delocalize the user in non-empirical worlds through the use of immersive devices. Virtual reality—in its varied range of applications and levels of interactivity, ranging from pure contemplation to videoludic interaction—is an effective example of such “heterotopic” spaces.…

Fashionating Images. Audiovisual media studies meet Fashion

7 Jun , 2016 Call for papers,Fashion

Fashionating Images. Audiovisual media studies meet Fashion

This CS Journal special issue (No. 1/2017) aims at exploring the encounter and intersection between fashion studies and media studies, with particular reference to visual and audiovisual products, e.g. cinema, television, advertising and digital media. Over the past decades, fashion acquired centrality in social and economical dynamics in Western culture for its capability to penetrate and influence both production and identitarian practices. Fashion both fully takes part in artistic processes as an autonomous aesthetic and semantic object (fashion as a medium) and has a pivotal role in crea­tive industry as a provider of fundamental material for the formation of imaginary worlds and characters (fash­ion as a media industry). At the same time fashion has established as an autonomous and institutionalized social field able to influence and shape contemporary culture.

Thanks to both its symbolic and corporeal substance, the outfit can be thought as a vehicle and a means of direct …

Snapshot culture. The persistence of the photographic experience in post-media aesthetics

16 Mar , 2015 Call for papers,Photography

Snapshot culture. The persistence of the photographic experience in post-media aesthetics

COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI. Journal of Media, Performing arts and Cultural studies

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The contemporary mediascape is characterized by continuous and endless remediation flows that re-shape and hybridize the contents, the forms and the vehicles of visual-based media experience. In such a scenario, over the last years photography has gained a central role in negotiating between the need for innovation propelled by digital media and the persistence of its original nature and purposes. On the one hand, the advent of photo-sharing websites and social networks, photography apps for mobile devices, portable hybrid devices for photo and video (e.g. GoPro), set the field for the emergence of new experimental and non-professional media practices that have progressively reshaped the spatiotemporal and sociocultural boundaries of the photographic image. The recent development of photographic devices, technologies and practices created a backfire effect on institutional forms of photographic communication (e.g. photojournalism, auteur photography, art exhibition, …

Neurofilmology

18 Jul , 2013 Call for papers,Empathy,Neurofilmology

Neurofilmology

Neurofilmology. Film studies and the challenge of neuroscience

Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal
Special Issue no. 22/23
Edited by Adriano D’Aloia and Ruggero Eugeni

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Over the last two decades, discoveries made in the field of cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate the humanities and social sciences. In particular, the philosophical and psychological implications of the function of so-called ‘visuomotor neurons’ have caused a breakthrough in the understanding of the mind-body relation and of phenomena such as human consciousness, empathy, intersubjectivity, affect, and aesthetic response to works of art. This special issue of Cinéma&Cie aims to evaluate, from a multidisciplinary and critical perspective, both the relevance of the neurological approach for the psychology and the aesthetics of the film experience and, more generally, the epistemological consequences of this approach in the humanities.

The fundamental (and controversial) insight behind neuroscientific findings is that the complex processes of the …