Conference – ‘CINEMATERIALISM’

From 20-21 October 2022, the Université de Paris, France, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘CINEMATERIALISM: New Materialist Approaches to the Audiovisual (Cinema, Media, Digital Arts)’. With the aim to explore the reconfiguration of the notion of “materialism” in research on audiovisual cultures, the conference invites materialist analyses of films, theoretical approaches as well as reflections on socio-cultural questions tied to the study of film and audiovisual art forms. Possible themes include (but are not limited to) the four axes of Cinema and materiology, materialism and reception, the material history of cinema; archeology of media and of technological dispositifs, and the history of and return to materialist criticism. Proposals (max 500 words) in English or French can be submitted via e-mail to cinematerialismes2022@gmail.com until 9 May 2022.