Technology has radically changed our ways to approach, consume and enjoy media. The aesthetic experience of watching a Netflix series or engaging with the comments section in a newsfeed has become a daily experience we couldn’t have imagined a decade ago. These new ways of relating to media are shaping new narratives, from creators shaking off the boundaries and conventions of film and TV to audiences becoming content-creators themselves. These new dynamics are raising both important questions and interesting ideas. This one-day symposium is a series of events that aim to generate a dialogue around these issues by Postgraduate researchers and practitioners of all levels.


Keynote speaker: Dr Glen Creeber will open the symposium with his presentation 'Breaking the Loop: Contemporary TV Drama and Convergence'.


We invite submissions to reflect and dialogue about subjects like (but not limited to):

- Transmedia and Crossmedia
- Narrative and aesthetic formats in digitality
- Interactive narratives
- Performing arts in a hypermediated context
- Inclusion of digitality in performing arts aesthetics
- Aesthetics in post-humanities
- Digital creative communities
- Narratives of post-truth
- Relation and conflict between virtuality and reality

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We want to invite postgraduate researchers and practitioners of any discipline that explores the changes and challenges of digitality in storytelling arts.


Submissions must include a 300 words abstract, name of the applicant and name of the institution, when applicable.

Abstracts to be submitted to tgps500@york.ac.uk.


Timeline:

April 6th – Deadline for abstracts submission

April 20th – Extended deadline for abstracts submission

May 4th – Selection

June 21st – Symposium