Call for papers: The Artificial Life of Film: Dolls, Puppets, Automata, and Cyborgs in... - 0 views
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Proposed Panel for SCMS Conference, Los Angeles, March 17-21 The Artificial Life of Film: Dolls, Puppets, Automata, and Cyborgs in Cinema Organizer Names: Deborah Levitt, Assistant Professor, Culture and Media Studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School Allison de Fren, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College Summary: From the early films of Georges Méliès, Fritz Lang, and the Surrealist movement to Blade Runner, Being John Malkovich, Ghost in the Shell, and Lars and the Real Girl, the cinema has had an enduring fascination with artificial humans due to their unique ability to picture the tensions between motion and stasis, animation and inanimation, humanity and artificiality, the real and the virtual, and the vital and the mechanical. Artificial bodies have also made diverse appearances in film theory, from the "spiritual automaton"of Gilles Deleuze to Roland Barthes' meditations on a cinematic automaton in Camera Lucida to the broad field of reflections on cyborgs and/in cinema. This panel seeks to interrogate any or all of these conjugations of cinema and artificial lives — material and philosophical, live action or animated, in fiction or documentary. We are interested in the kinds of performativities engendered by these ambivalent bodies: their uncanniness, their ontological destabilizations, their epistemological games of masking and unmasking. Papers might also consider how artificiality is mobilized within particular genres or what kinds of meanings accumulate around artificial bodies in relation to gender or race. We are interested in how these figures help to construct a new genealogy of audiovisual culture, one that could illuminate cinema's digital or animatic present and future, as well as connections to various moments in the historical long durée of dolls, puppets, and automata. Please send an abstract of up to 300 words, five key references, and a brief bio to levittd@newschool.edu and adefren@conncoll.edu by August 10th.
Mobilizing the Imagination in Everyday Play: The Case of Japanese Media Mixes Mizuko Ito - 0 views
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A notion of participation leads to a conceptualization of the imagination as collectively rather than individually experienced and produced.
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While the boosters, debunkers, and the panicked may seem to be operating under completely different frames of reference, what they share is the tendency to fetishize technology as a force with its own internal logic standing outside of history, society and culture. The problem with all of these stances is that they fail to recognize that technologies are in fact embodiments, stabilizations, and concretizations of existing social structure and cultural meanings, growing out of an unfolding history as part of a necessarily altered and contested future.
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I propose three conceptual constructs that define trends in new media form, production, and genres of participation: Convergence of old and new media forms; authoring through personalization and remix, and hypersociality as a genre of participation.
Intute - Media studies - 1 views
Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millenial Japan - 2 views
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If kawaii, or the aesthetic of cute, is the longing for the freedom and innocence of youth, manifesting in the junior and high school girl in uniform (Kinsella 1995), then moe is the longing for the purity of characters pre-person, manifesting in androgynous semi and demi human forms. This is called 'jingai,' or outside human, and examples include robots, aliens, dolls and anthropomorphized animals, all stock characters in the moe pantheon. A specific example would be nekomimi, or cat-eared characters. More generally, in order to achieve the desired affect, moe characters are reduced to tiny deformed 'little girl' images with emotive, pupil-less animal eyes
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I argue fantasy characters offer virtual possibilities and affect
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Moe is also used by fujoshi, zealous female fans of yaoi, a genre of manga featuring male homosexual romance. However, the word moe indicates a response to fantasy characters, not a specific style, character type or relational pattern. While some things are more likely than others to inspire moe, this paper will focus mainly on the response itself rather than the forms that inspire it.
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Modern Art Asia - Reviews, Commentary and Peer-Reviewed Articles on Asian Art - 1 views
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Modern Art Asia is a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. For the rising generation of Asian art scholars, these works exist in a globalized interdisciplinary context at the intersection of scholarship, criticism, and the market. Founded to address the need within art history and art journalism for a space dedicated to the arts of Asia, Modern Art Asia combines peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibition reviews from international correspondents, providing a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic writing on art.
Le débat sur la fanfiction relancé ? - Elbakin.net - 5 views
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Diana Gabaldon (ci-contre) et George R.R. Martin, tous les deux opposés à laisser ce genre de liberté aux apprentis écrivains, viennent en effet de relancer les discussions autour du sujet.
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Maybe your friend would be interested in Elisabeth Woledge? She works for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/428/439/) and has done a lot of work on fanfic, too. She gave a very interesting keynote speech for a fanfic conference last February (abstract here: http://www.mos.umu.se/forskning/cyberekon/symposiumabstracts.htm) in which she discussed Shakespeare as well. I believe the keynote is archived on http://stream.humlab.umu.se/, -search for Woledge and it should come up. As for the Gabaldon issue, you can find a lot of links to discussions about her statements in this post on the Metafandom community: http://www.journalfen.net/community/metafandom/142097.html
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Woaw! I'm printing all these references and will bring it to her later this afternoon! We might be able to take a coffee together. I will also of course keep all these links! This is really great! Thank you so much!
Otaku2 References - 1 views
Professor Munakata's fantastic museum piece - Times Online - 1 views
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I hope Hayao Miyazaki isn't reading this! The last term he'd use to qualify his animation cinema is "anime". In general terms, "anime" is used to refer to animated series for TV broadcast and video distribution. For a journalist who claims to have an inside knowledge of this audiovisual univers, that's quite a confusion to make!
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The manga aesthetic has spawned a film genre called anime, such as Spirited Away
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