Convergence of Artistic Media, Helsinki (01.11. - 02.11.2016)
CONFERENCE
CONVERGENCE OF ARTISTIC MEDIA
University of Helsinki, November 1-2, 2016
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016
University Main Building, Small Festive Hall (Pieni juhlasali), Fabianinkatu 33
10.15 Leena Eilittä: Welcome
10.30-11.45 Luis Emilio Bruni (University of Aalborg): Artistic Convergence and the Migration of Narratives in Time
11.45 Coffee
12.00-13.30 Parallel sessions:
1. Session (Chair: Luis Emilio Bruni), Hall 7, University Main Building
Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki): Humans Miming Insects Miming Humans: The Insect Play by the Čapeks and Its Adaptations in Light of Lessing’s Aesthetic Theory
Beatrice Seligardi (University of Parma): Working Girls and Cinematic Tableaux: The Intermedial Convergence of Filmic Techniques into Literature and Photography
Catherine Makhumula (Stellenbosch and Linnaeus University): Post-Modern Orature? The Convergence of the Arts and Media Forms in African Theater and Performance
2. Session (Chair: Lieven Ameel), Hall 14, University Main Building
Kirsi Manninen (Aalto University): Digital Drawing on Virtual Paper – Pixels Controlled by Costume Designer’s Hand
Lena Séraphin (Aalto University): Another Alphabet – From Parallel Words to Reciprocated Writing
Katriina Heljakka (University of Turku) and Pirita Ihamäki (Satakunta University of Applied Sciences): “N 61° 29.330 E 021° 47.580” Sigrid-Secrets: Gamifying Art Experiences through Geocaching
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00:
3. Session (Chair: Lily Diaz), Hall XV, University Main Building
Alejandro Pedregal (Aalto University): The Drama of the Great Financial Crisis – Film Adaptations and Representations of Greed and Economic Collapse
Jouko Aaltonen (Aalto University): Convergence between Documentary and Fiction
Anna Boswell (University of Auckland): The Convergent Eco-Logics of Green Porno
Small Festive Hall (Pieni juhlasali)
16.15-17.45 Plenary lecture
Irina O. Rajewsky (Free University of Berlin): Intermediality and Transmediality: Unbraiding Converged Theories
University Main Building, Reading Room (“Lehtienlukusali”)
18.00-20.00 Rector’s Reception
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2016
University Main Building, Small Festive Hall (Pieni juhlasali)
10.15-11.30 Plenary lecture
John Richardson: Multimodality in Arts Research and Techniques of Ecological Close Reading
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-13.30 Parallel sessions:
4. Session (Chair: John Richardson), Hall 7, University Main Building
Kai Lassfolk and Mikko Ojanen (University of Helsinki): The Collective Musical and Multimedia Instruments by Erkki Kurenniemi
Sanna Qvick (University of Turku): Echoes of Detachment and Displacement in the Finnish Children Fairytale Film Pelicanman
Sanna Iitti (Independent Scholar): Robert Schumann’s Opera Genoveva as a DVD Production
5. Session (Chair: Leena Eilittä), Hall 12, University Main Building
Kate Costello (University of Oxford): Gao Xingjian’s Aesthetic of Suggestion: From Stream of Consciousness to Liubai
Jonas Mirbeth (Free University of Berlin): “Just a whisk of pity a cloud in peace and silence.” On the Notion of Political Aesthetics in John Cage’s Literary Work with James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Juha-Pekka Kilpiö (University of Jyväskylä): Transmediating the Third Meaning? Kinekphrasis in Contemporary Finnish Poetry
13.30-15.00 Lunch
15.00-17.00 Parallel sessions:
6. Session (Chair: Henry Bacon), Hall 7, University Main Building
Gianluigi Rossini (University of L’Aquila): “How are you listening, my old friend?” Mr. Robot, Transmedia Dispersion and Stylistic Coherence in Contemporary TV Series
Anna-Leena Harinen (University of Eastern Finland): Problematizing Relationships between Adaptations and Their “Source Texts”: The Case of Game of Thrones
Hanne Juntunen (University of Tampere): Adapting the Unadaptable: The Visual Narrative of Watchmen on the Page and on the Big Screen
Bianca Thiem (University of Bayreuth): Adaptations as Carriers of Cultural Narratives: Visualizing The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald 1925-Luhrmann 2013)
7. Session (Chair: Laura Wahlfors), Hall 12, University Main Building
Eija Niskanen (University of Helsinki): TBA
David Havas (Academy of Performing Arts & National Film Archive in Prague): Poetic Escapism: Prague in Czechoslovak Comics and Urban Legends
Brenda J. Robles (ELO Film School, Helsinki): Shakespearian Mode in an Original Screenplay: A Research Plan for an Artistically Oriented Study
17.00 Closing words, Hall 7, University Main Building
19.00 Conference Dinner
Organizing universities: University of Helsinki, University of Tampere, Aalto University, University of the Arts Helsinki
Please register online at: http://www.uta.fi/ltl/en/transmediality2016/index.html
Notice: The registrations are free for the faculty and students of organizing universities.
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