Our conference aims to encourage studies that explore an emerging paradigm in intermediality studies centred on "affective intermediality", and we hope to initiate a friendly, scholarly debate regarding the relevance and productivity of this approach. The necessity of such an "affective turn" of intermediality studies arises from viewing intermediality as an intricate and highly performative process of communication between humans within a particular context of material reality and historical time, not just as a "transfer", a "combination" or "reference" of media characteristics or representations, i.e. not only as something that happens between media and affects media, but as something that affects us. Accordingly, we propose "affective intermediality" as a key term for a perspective over the experience of the in-betweenness of arts and media that pivots from concentrating on formal operations of media transgressions to examining the sensuous excess and complex affective performativity of cinematic intermediality and of intermedial artworks in general.
Deadline for applications: 10 July 2023
For more information see: AFFECTIVE INTERMEDIALITY (sapientia.ro)