CFP: Cinema & Technology, Lancaster University, 6-9 April 2005

Cinema & Technology Conference
6-9 April 2005
Institute for Cultural Research
Lancaster University
Lancaster
United Kingdom

The Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University in the 
United Kingdom will host a major international conference around the 
broad theme of ‘Cinema and Technology.’ The conference will take place 
at Lancaster University and venues in and around the city of Lancaster 
from 6 to 9 April 2005.

Our aim is to address the digitisation of the film image and the 
consequences of this process for theories of history, subjectivity, 
agency and perception. Within this general framework, participants will 
be encouraged to engage with the dematerialisation of the film image, 
the uses of digital cameras, the forms of contemporary cinematic 
experience, and revisionist debates about the meanings of technology. 
The conference will feature a public keynote address, two major plenary 
sessions, and a range of parallel sessions focusing on issues such as:

The digital imagination
Changing forms of cinematic consumption
Histories of film technologies
The apparatus and technologies of vision
Cinema/technology/ideology
Sound and light in cinema
The politics of cinema technologies
Technologies of new media
Other related topics

There will also be a series of related events in and around Lancaster 
that highlight the conference themes in a more informal setting.

Scholars in any discipline are invited to submit proposals for papers 
that address the implications of technology for cinematic practice and 
theory. Proposal should include: provisional title, an abstract of up to 
250 words, your name and contact details (including an email address), 
and should be sent to June Rye (icr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by 1 September 2004.