Haptic Narratives Call for Particpation
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This series of events will focus on exploring and engaging with haptic sensations through tactile cues on film and the environments associated with moving images. What the eye sees in a frame can encourage the viewer to feel sensations on the skin through filmic texture, contour, angle, lighting, saturation, sound, vibrations etc. In some cases, an image can urge the viewer to touch a surface through their mind’s eye or allow an embodied reaction to characters or actions seen on screen.
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Overview
This series of events will focus on exploring and engag-ing with haptic sensations through tactile cues on film and the environments associated with moving images. What the eye sees in a frame can encourage the viewer to feel sensations on the skin through filmic texture, contour, angle, lighting, saturation, sound, vibrations etc. In some cases, an image can urge the viewer to touch a surface through their mind’s eye or allow an embodied reaction to characters or actions seen on screen.
Themes
We are interested in submissions (films / short papers / view & talk sessions) around the areas of:
• sensations that can be felt on/via skin, other body parts and mind as part of filmic experiences.
• other representations of the tactual, where vision becomes touch / touch becomes vision.
• how senses are manipulated in various genres and styles of film through material engagement.
• the body in motion; eating, sweating, sex, violence, emotional outburst etc.
• materiality and texture of sound / sound-image relationships
• a multisensory approach to synesthesia and kinesthesia
• material fetishism
• real, unreal and the surreal
How to submit
In the first instance, we would like to receive 300 word abstracts or descriptions, attaching any visual material necessary by Friday 17th April 2015. Please don’t attach files over 10 MB; instead include links to online material, or use file transfer websites.
Submissions should be sent to: [email protected] with ‘Haptic Narratives’ in the subject line.
Accepted submissions will be divided into separate themes that will be explored over the three events.
This event series is sponsored by the ‘Time, Materiality and the Digital’ (TiMaDi) research group at the University of Greenwich, and organised by Matilda Mroz, Isil Onol, Stacey Pitsillides, and Rosamund Davies.
Haptic Narratives | Textural exploration in filmCall for Participationfilms / short papers / view & talk sessions
Event dates (over 3 weeks on Thursday evenings)14th, 21st and 28th May 2015, 18:00 - 21:00University of Greenwich
‘In haptic seeing, all our self rushes up to the surface to interact with another surface...’
L. U. Marks,Haptic Visuality: Touching with the Eyes
Maya Deren | Meshes of the Afternoon
