Convergence of Artistic Media, Helsinki (01.11. - 02.11.2016)

Irene Dimitropoulos Announcement
Location
Finland
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Humanities, Literature

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.