Call for Paper: Mediated Art: From the Critofilm to the Talent Show (2018-2)
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As the best contemporary aesthetics have taught us, art, not unlike other human activities, takes on identity and meaning only from the practices that define it. It’s in this pragmatic direction of use, of discourse, that is appropriate to direct research and reflection on its statute.
There is no doubt that in our contemporary the cinema — the auteur films but maybe mainly the popular ones — starting from the too much abused label of “mirror of reality,” may constitute a magnificent synthesis of behaviors and lifestyles, an extraordinary repertoire of gestures, actions, tastes, words, able not only to replicate the social but even to re-define it. Following this perspective, it’s necessary to add to the galaxy of cinema at this point also the one of the television that, if possible (just think about the intrusiveness and the burden of reality and talent shows), has further increased the border of virtuality launched and broadcasted by the cinema.
Therefore, the new «piano b» call for papers would like to encourage and collect wide-range reflections on these topics: the art narrated and performed by cinema and television. The art, as a system and as a mechanism, as artworks as well as leading characters, as models as well as critical categories, as languages as well as symbols, in other words the art as a whole, transferred, shifted, and regenerated in the cinematographic and TV narrations. The art as it appears on screens that reflect and contribute to redefine our everyday, between representation and exploitation, education and divulgation. Possible, but not exclusive, food for thought:
- The artist’s portrait (from the biopic to the selfie).
- The Art World’s dress code.
- The portrait of the connoisseur: Zeri, Sgarbi, Daverio, Montanari, and other stars.
- Art divulgation through cinema, TV, the new media.
- The use of the audiovisual in the art educational.
- The spectacularization of the practices: from Picasso’s Le Mystère to the realities.
- The production of artistic value through the media: the art auctions and other catastrophes.
- New critofilm (video-essay): the digital technologies and the virtualization of the public’s experience of an artwork.
- The economical interaction between the artistic field and the media field.
- Representation and modeling of the taste cultures and the value judgment.
The interested professors, critics and scholars can submit their proposals to the evaluation of the Editorial Board by sending them as an attachment to the following email address:
redazione.pianob@unibo.it
Furthermore, in order to submit an article applicants must also comply with the following indications.
No later than the 4th May 2018 the applicants must send to the email address redazione.pianob@unibo.it as an attachment a text in a .doc format containing a short abstract (maximum length of 1500 characters, spaces included), no more than 5 keywords and a short biography of the applicant, the valuation of which is entrusted to the Guest Editors of the specific issue. In addition to the original language of the text, the abstract, the applicant’s biography and the keywords must be compulsorily submitted also in English. Once the abstract has been accepted by the Editorial Board, the author can proceed with the writing of the article (a monographic article or an essay) that must not exceed the maximum length of 30.000/40.000 characters (including footnotes and spaces). The drafting of the text, that can be written in Italian, English or French, must follow the editorial guidelines of the journal. All articles must be emailed to the aforementioned email address no later than the 15th September 2018, specifying the title of the article and the full name of the author in the body of the accompanying email. Each submission will undergo a double blind peer-review process and the article will be anonymously send to two referees. If the judgments of the two referees are in contrast, the Editors (dialoguing with the Guest Editor or the Guest Editors) will decide whether to take responsibility and publish the article or send it to a third referee. The Editorial Staff will communicate to the authors the evaluation process results. The upcoming exit of the issue of “piano b” is planned for December 2018.
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