Merging Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Study of Hybrid Arts
Call for Papers
1 February 2014
University of Kent, Canterbury
http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/mergingmedia/
Deadline for submissions: 13 December 2013

Although we naturally recognise different artistic media as distinct forms – music, painting, sculpture, film, dance, theatre, architecture, animation, and so on – we also understand that these mediums can nevertheless have a meaningful dialogue in the creation of new artworks. Over the course of art history there have been numerous occasions when different media forms have merged or been juxtaposed for artistic purposes. This one-day conference is for postgraduate students and early career researchers whose work incorporates the interdisciplinary topic of artistic hybridity and intermediality. We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations (individual papers or pre-formed 3-paper panels) or performance pieces from candidates across arts and humanities.

We welcome papers, panels and performances that investigate ‘merging media’ through a variety of interpretations. Possible research topics for submission can include, but are not limited to:

• Hybridity of forms
• Hybridity and technology
• Hybridity and history
• Hybridity of performance
• Hybridity and the audience
• Hybridity and remix culture
• Hybridity and modes of production
• Hybridity and sites of exhibition
• Hybridity and theory

Please send abstracts (300 words) for proposed papers, panels or performances and a short biographical note to mergingmedia2014@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions is 13th December 2013.