<nettime> CFP: Adaptation, Manipulation, Quotation in the Digital Age

[Andreas Broeckmann <broeckmann@leuphana.de>]

from: Horea Avram <avramgarde@gmail.com>
date: Sep 13, 2013
subject: CFP: Adaptation, Manipulation, Quotation in the Digital Age

Deadline: Sep 30, 2013

Call For Papers

EKPHRASIS. Images, Cinema, Theatre, Media
Vol. 2 (10)/2013
Recycling Images: Adaptation, Manipulation, Quotation in the Digital Age

Having long played an essential role in the development of art, media 
and culture, recycling has emerged also as a field of theoretical 
explorations. The idea of recycling is understood here in a wider sense, 
as a production means and critical thinking tool, as an instrument for 
approaching and reclaimingâequally with deference and irreverenceâthe 
established cultural models.

Adaptation, remix, manipulation, remediation, quotation, serialism, 
appropriationism, simulations, mash-up, cut-and-paste, or simply 
copy-paste are different manifestations of the same idea of recycling 
and are all part of what was called the âRe- cultureâ. Such diversity 
proves that recyclingâas a concept and as a meansâis not linked to a 
specific artistic trend, media, technique or time period.

The main consequence of the practice of freely borrowing and 
recirculating sources is the undermining of established values such as 
originality, uniqueness, authorship and copyright. So, instead of 
narcissism and hermetic construct, recycling relies on networking and 
borrowing, on adaptation, free reference and intertextual commentary. In 
this process, both the sources recycled and the resulting products are 
seen not as terminals, but as networked nodes, as open narratives ready 
to be incorporated and reinterpreted in a new, recyclable discourse.

Ekphrasis is seeking papers that address the theme of recycling in the 
larger context of the digital age. How notions such as adaptation, 
manipulation, quotation are mobilized by artists and scholars nowadays? 
Does the act of recycling images have been altered as a result of the 
recent developments of new media technologies? What role the new 
recycling methods play in cinema, visual arts, literature and mass 
media? What are the goals, expectations, means and limitations of 
recycling images in the digital age? Is recycling a possible catalyst 
for the emergence of new technologies and mediums? How recycling images 
acted upon the development of new audiences?

Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

-Adaptation and quotation in film, art, literature and mass media
-Medium revisited and residual media
-Remediation and accessibility
-Valuable, available, tactical cultural models
-Recycling as a locus of cultural exchange
-Mix, remix, mashup
-The use of found footage and their artistic impact
-Ownership, accountability, copyright
-Empathy, epigonism, fake -Cross-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary 
recycling process
-Originality, postmodern relativism and new forms of recycling
-Transfer between high and low cultures
-Appropriation and (media) manipulation
-Strategies, patterns and platforms of recycling
-Global, local and cross cultural fertilizations
-Nostalgia and the memory of images
-Recycling and cultural institutions: cinema, museum, archive
-Retro chic
-Piracy, activism, hacktivism -Oldies but goldies

Guest editors: Horea Avram and Claudiu Turcu?

Abstracts of up to 300 words are due by September 30th 2013.

Final submission is due November 20th 2013.
The articles should be written in English or French (for English, please 
use the MLA citation style and documenting sources).

For the final essay, the word limit is 5000-8000 words of text 
(including references). Please include a summary and key-words
The articles should be original material not published in any other 
media before.
Graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit papers.

Please send all correspondence to horea.avram@gmail.com and 
turcus_claudiu@yahoo.com

Ekphrasis is a peer-reviewed academic journal, edited by the Faculty of 
Theatre and Television, âBabes-Bolyaiâ University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

For more information and submission guidelines, please visit:
http://ekphrasis.accentpublisher.ro/site/

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Adaptation, Manipulation, Quotation in the Digital Age. In: 
H-ArtHist, Sep 13, 2013. <http://arthist.net/archive/5910>.

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