Call for Papers
VIDEO AS MEDIALES PHAENOMEN
Conference of the Institute for Film and Television Studies at the
Ruhr University Bochum
for the establishment of the endowed professorship for visual culture on the 20th and 21st
10. 2001 in Bochum. In the current media studies debate
At first glance, video plays a rather subordinate role. For one, it seems
Video is just an “interlude” in media history, or one of many
On the other hand, video has the hopes of being spin-offs of television
emancipatory medium and thus not in the
expected mass met.
The conference would like this marginalization and the associated one
Breaking the deadlock in cultural studies research into video,
in which, in particular, the flexibility of video as a media phenomenon in
the focus of the scientific debate is placed. The
The focus is less on any definition of video as a medium,
but rather on technical, historical and sociocultural
Conception of video. Because of the media science
Neglecting the research area video is the goal of
Conference to develop and bundle new research perspectives. A
historical research perspective impressively illustrates the
Diversity of video. Video history could be unproblematic as
TV history, as industrial history, as consumer history, as
Reception history, as cultural history, as mentality history or
write as social history.
The previously untapped complexity of historical references
is reflected in the different areas of application of the media phenomenon
Video from television production to the Internet. Here you can
Questions about the productivity of video for cultural memory,
Put images of the past or visual cultures. Aesthetic
Research perspectives make it possible to answer the question about a
Video aesthetics or their construction. Video recording made possible
general aesthetic-technical operations such as slow motion, time lapse,
Repetition etc. How are these procedures used? How is about
shaky hand-held camera, display of the “Rec” symbol, bad
Image quality, etc. currently video aesthetics in computer games or film and
Constructed television productions? An important area for recording
of video phenomena is the opening up of a perspective on the
Reception research. How is video made in its diverse contexts?
used? Here it is important, for example, to draw a bow from largely
unexplored area of meaning production using home video on the web cam
or from almost pure video productions (pornography, politics) to
Secondary exploitation of feature films. At the same time there are questions about media
Identities and their extraction from video: Questions about gender-specific
Dealing with video, questions about ethnic or religious issues
Identity acquisition via video etc. What happened to the initiatives of
seventies and eighties a counter-public through video
build up? To what extent do these strategies live in other media (e.g.
Internet) or outside of Europe and North America further?
It is planned to publish the contributions from the conference in an anthology
publish.
Please submit your topic suggestions (at most one page) by
07/31/2001 to the following address:
Ruhr University Bochum
Institute for Film and Television Studies
Universitaetsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Tel .: +49 (0) 234 32 – 25068 (Organizers: Ralf Adelmann, Hilde Hoffmann,
Rolf F. Nohr)
Tel .: +49 (0) 234 32 – 25105 (Organization: Tanja Horstmann, only Monday and
Available on tuesday)
Email: tanja.c.horstmann
ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Fax: +49 (0)234 32-14268
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Reference:
CFP: Video as a media phenomenon (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, 20-21 Oct 2001). In: ArtHist.net, June 2nd, 2001. Last accessed on January 17, 2021.
