Storyworlds Across Media Conference

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Storyworlds across Media.
Mediality - Multimodality - Transmediality
June 30 - July 2, 2011 at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
http://www.storyworlds.de

Thursday, June 30

Introduction

10:00-10:45 Karl N. Renner (Mainz):
Introductory Remarks

10:45-11:30 Marie-Laure Ryan (Boulder/Mainz):
Storyworlds across Media

Panel 1: Transmedial Worlds

12:00-12:45 Lisbeth Klastrup/Susana Tosca (Copenhagen):
A Game of Thrones: Transmedial Worlds, Fandom, and Social Gaming

12:45-13:30 Colin B. Harvey (London/Bournemouth):
A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling

13:30-14:15 Van Leavenworth (Umea):
The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft

Panel 2: Transmedial Storytelling

15:45-16:30 Jason Mittell (Middlebury):
Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television

16:30-17:15 Mélanie Bourdaa (Bourdeaux):
The Many Facets of Transmedia Storytelling

17:15-18:00 Maria L. Leavenworth (Umea):
Transmedial Narration and Good and Evil Vampires

Friday, July 1

Panel 3: Transmedial Concepts

10:00-10:45 Frank Zipfel (Mainz):
Fictionality across Media: Transmedial Concepts of Fictionality

10:45-11:30 J. Alexander Bareis (Lund):
Mediality and Mediation: The Role of the Narrator in Transmedial Narratology

11:30-12:15 Jan-Noël Thon (Hamburg/Mainz):
Subjectivity across Media: On Transmedial Strategies of Subjective Representation

Panel 4: Visual Storytelling

14:00-14:45 Patrick C. Hogan (Connecticut):
Painting as a Challenge to Narrative Discourse Analysis: The Visual Art of Rabindranath Tagore

14:45-15:30 Werner Wolf (Graz):
Triggers (Framings) of Narrativity in Literature and Painting

15:30-16:15 Gyöngyvér Horváth (Budapest):
Narrative Ramification: A Visual Response to Transmedial Narration

Panel 5: Multimodal Storytelling

16:45-17:30 Jared Gardner (Ohio/Mainz):
Graphic Narrative and New Media Convergence

17:30-18:15 Wolfgang Hallet (Giessen):
The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and Its Narratological Implications

18:15-19:00 Jeff Thoss (Graz):
Media Rivalry Revisited: The Case of Scott Pilgrim

Saturday, July 2

Panel 6: Interactive Storytelling

10:00-10:45 Jesper Juul (Copenhagen/New York):
The Paradox of Interactive Tragedy: Can a Video Game have an Unhappy Ending?

10:45-11:30 Michael Fuchs (Graz):
“It’s Not a Lake. It’s an Ocean.” Alan Wake, Transmedia Storytelling, and Meta-Media-Convergence

11:30-12:15 Marco Carraciolo (Bologna):
Those Insane Dream Sequences: Distorted Experience in Literature and Video Games

Panel 7: Spatial Storytelling

14:00-14:45 Elke Huwiler (Amsterdam):
Storytelling in Performances: A Historical Perspective

14:45-15:30 April G. Wei (Hong Kong):
A Poetics of Navigational Narrative

15:30-16:15 Erwin Feyersinger (Insbruck):
Transferring Narratological Concepts of Space to Augmented Reality Environments

16:15-16:30 Marie-Laure Ryan/Karl N. Renner/Jan-Noël Thon:
Closing Remarks

Participation is free, but since the number of participants is limited, registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Please be sure to register no later than May 31, 2011 by sending your name and institutional affiliation to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

New Directions in Storytelling

ELISABETH BIONDI (Moderator)

PANELIST – LAUREN GREENFIELD, GILLIAN LAUB, JEFF JACOBSON & ROB HORNSTRA

Thursday, May 13th at 11am in St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY(DUMBO)

FREE TO THE PUBLIC (ONLY 400 SEATS, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED)

“New Directions in Storytelling” – Panel discussion, moderated by Elisabeth Biondi (Visual Editor, New Yorker) and featuring Gillian Laub, Lauren Greenfield, Rob Hornstra and Jeff Jacobson

Moderated by Elisabeth Biondi, “New Directions in Storytelling” shall endeavor to explore how visual artists are adapting to the rapid changes in media platforms and distribution.

Elisabeth Biondi (Moderator) - Elisabeth Biondi joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1996, shortly after photography was introduced to the magazine and as it began to play a more prominent editorial role. As visuals editor she has helped shape the look of the publication by establishing a group of staff photographers, commissioning both masters and emerging talent, and utilizing portrait, fine art and documentary photography. She continues to build the magazine’s reputation for its use of photography, which is much acclaimed and has received numerous awards.Elisabeth Biondi started working with photography when GEO Magazine, often described as a more contemporary and controversial version of National Geographic, made its appearance on the American market. Although the magazine won many awards for its photography and design, it ultimately ceased publication in 1984.Subsequently, she moved to Vanity Fair, which soon began to grow into the highly successful magazine it is today. As director of photography, she focused on lively, witty portraiture – an important contribution to the increased success of the publication.After seven years at Vanity Fair, Elisabeth Biondi returned to Germany to work for Stern, one of Germany’s largest news weeklies. As head of the photography department, she explored the fast-paced world of news and reportage photography, and worked with photographers around the world. After five years, she returned to New York, where she has since worked as visuals editor of The New Yorker.

Gillian Laub – Gillian Laub is a photographer born in Chappaqua New York. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in comparative literature before studying photography at the International Center of Photography, New York. She was selected for the World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass in 2003 and as the winner of Nikon’s Storyteller Award for her work in the Middle East. With the support of the Jerome Foundation, Laub’s first monograph Testimony was published by Aperture in 2007 to critical acclaim. This body of work is comprised of portraits and testimonies from Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians all directly and indirectly affected by the complicated geopolitical context in which they live. 2007 Laub was awarded Aperture’s Emerging Artist. She contributes regularly to The New York Times Magazine among many other publications and commissions. Her work is widely exhibited and collected.

Lauren Greenfield – Acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects Girl Culture and Fast Forward. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and are in many museum collections across the US.

Greenfield’s first feature-length documentary film, THIN, aired on HBO, and is accompanied by a book of the same name. In this unflinching and incisive study, Greenfield embarks on an emotional journey through a residential facility dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders. The feature-length documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Direction. It won the Grierson Award at the London Film Festival and prizes at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. The Thin Book was honored by the 2007 International Photography Awards and the Photo District News Annual.

Her last film project, an original short film entitled kids + money (trailer), premiered at the AFI Film Festival where it won the Shorts Audience Award. The film went on to screen at the Sundance Film Festival and also won awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and at the Hugo Television Awards. It has also screened at more than 40 other festivals throughout 2008. The film is a conversation with young people from diverse Los Angeles communities about the role of money in their lives.

Greenfield graduated from Harvard and started her career as an intern for National Geographic. Since then, her photographs have been regularly published in the New York Times Magazine, Time, ELLE, and American Photo and have won many awards, including the International Center for Photography Infinity Award, the Hasselblad Grant, the Community Awareness Award and the Moscow Biennial People’s Choice Award.

Rob Hornstra – Rob Hornstra (1975) is a documentary photographer. Since he graduated he has worked predominantly on long-term projects, both at home and on the other side of the world. His work is characterised by a stylised rawness, with a large dose of intrinsic engagement. He has published three books on his own (101 Billionaires, Roots of the Rúntur, Communism & Cowgirls) which, despite increasing print runs, sell out ever faster. He has been commissioned by international magazines to produce documentary series. He has also taken part in numerous (solo) exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. In addition to his own work as a documentary maker.

Rob is based in the Netherlands.

Jeff Jacobson – Jeff Jacobson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1946. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1968, and from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., in 1971. While practicing as an ACLU lawyer in the American South in the early 70’s, Jeff became interested in photography, shooting in southern jails and rural areas. After completing a workshop at Apeiron with Charles Harbutt, in 1974, Jacobson quit his law practice to devote full energies to photography.

In 1976, Jeff began working in color while photographing the American presidential campaign. It was during this personal project that he began experimenting with strobe and long exposures, a now familiar technique that he pioneered. Jacobson joined Magnum Photos in 1978, and in 1981 he left Magnum and helped found Archive Pictures. He continued his color explorations in the United States throughout the 80’s which culminated in the publication of his monograph, My Fellow Americans, by the University of New Mexico Press. Jeff does assignments for magazines, such as The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, Geo, Stern, Life and many others.

Jacobson’s photographs are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, The Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Az., The Joy of Giving Society in New York, and have been exhibited at George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The International Center of Photography, New York, The Jewish Museum, New York, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, The Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Carla Sozzani Gallery in Milan, Italy, The Kircaldy Museum in Scotland, Museum of The Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburg, Pa., The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas and at photography festivals in Charlottesville, Virginia, Pingyao, China, Perpignan, France, Coimbra, Portugal, and Eindover, The Netherlands. Jeff teaches workshops regularly at ICP in New York, and has also taught or lectured at The Tuscany Photo Workshop, in Buonconvento, Italy, The Anderson Ranch, in Aspen Colorado, Centro de la Imagen, in Mexico City, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and The Julia Dean Workshops, in Los Angeles. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment For The Arts, and The New York Foundation For The Arts.

In 1990, Jeff moved to Los Angeles and began a series of pictures which were published in his book, Melting Point, by Nazraeli Press, Autumn, ’06. An exhibition of Melting Point was at the Peer Gallery, in New York City, Nov. ’06 – January ’07, Cedro 26 Gallery, in Rome, Italy, April, 2008, and the Festival Of The Photograph, Charlottesville, Va., June, 2008. Jeff now lives with his wife, Marnie Andrews, in Mt Tremper, a Catskills hamlet about two hours north of New York. In 2010, Jeff joined the Institute For Artist Management.

Futures of Entertainment ‘09

Hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT, Futures of Entertainment brings together scholars and key thinkers from television, advertising, marketing, and entertainment industries to discuss the unfolding future of the entertainment landscape.

Held at MIT, the event takes place over Friday and Saturday, November 20 & 21, 2009 in Cambridge, MA.

This year’s conference will feature an entire day dedicated to interrogating some of the issues around the creative and business practices behind transmedia projects. Looking at the evolving business challenges of creating narratives, programs and campaigns that stretch across multiple platforms, Futures of Entertainment 4 will engage with questions around managing, producing, financing and positioning transmedia efforts, and how to identify the value created from transmedia projects. The event will look at some of the creative challenges that emerge from managing every larger franchises and which come from developing content for multiple mediums. Finally, day one of the conference will ask some serious questions about the future sustainability — both from a creative and a business perspective — of transmedia events.

The second day of the event will feature panels on topics including contemporary media business models, aligning new audiences with contemporary research practice and the blurring of distinctions between communication mediums.

For more information: http://futuresofentertainment.org/

Montreal International Game Summit ‘09

November 16-17. 2009

MIGS serves members of the video and electronic gaming industries. Geared to industry needs, the MIGS aims to be the annual event for game development specialists from all over the world. More than 1500 members of the game industry are expected for this Sixth Edition.

Leading-edge presentations MIGS presents specialized conferences hosted by world-renowned experts in programming, visual arts, game design, audio design, production and business, and Serious Games.

The summit is a specialized event offering an environment conducive to learning, networking and discussion.

Program:
- Some 80 courses, seminars, conferences and workshops over a two-day period Big names from the local and international scenes
- Numerous additional activities including a VIP gala, cocktail parties, specialized meetings and more
- Some 30 firms presenting their wares
- A separate Business Lounge

For more information: http://sijm.ca/2009/?language=en

Call For Papers: 25th International Conference on Narrative

25th International Conference on Narrative
8-11 April 2010
Cleveland, Ohio
Website: http://www.case.edu/narrative

Special Session: “Ecological Narratives of Our Future”

This session will focus on contemporary environmental texts (prose, poetry, drama, or film) that use narrative in such a way as to envision, depict, warn against, or redirect the future. I’m thinking of the role that narrative plays not only in such texts as Thomas Berry, /The Great Work/; Albert Gore, /An Inconvenient Truth/; James Gustave Speth, /A Bridge at the End of the World/; and David W. Orr, /Down to the Wire/; but also in more literary works like Margaret Atwood, /Oryx and Crake/; Terry Tempest Williams, /Mosaic/; or even /Urinetown: The Musical/. A variety of theoretical approaches is eagerly anticipated.

Deadline: Please send a 500-word abstract and brief (2- to 3-pg) vita due by October 25, 2009 to Mark Bassett (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Panel proposals are due by October 30th.

The International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) is a nonprofit association of scholars dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; its power and influence in cultures past and
present. “Narrative” for us is a category that may include the novel, epic poetry, history, biography, autobiography, film, the graphic arts, music, performance, legal writing, medical case histories, and more.

Presenters must join the ISSN. (You can learn more about their publications, conferences, etc., at this website: http://narrative.georgetown.edu.)

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