The conference Images Between Series and Stream – Rethinking Seriality and Streaming will be held online 18 and 19 November 2021.
The starting point of the conference was a fact that watching TV series has become a distinct socio-cultural phenomenon in last decades. The increasing rise of streaming media services has profoundly changed the accessibility standards of TV series but also the way of watching them. However, the domestication of our life in pandemic, made us realize that streaming series and films should become more important objects of our interest than ever before. In some sense, we live in-series and on-stream platforms. New technological situations, such as the presence of videoconferences in our life, presents us not only with new problems but a new reorganisation of sensibile as Jacques Ranciere might say. Video-technology enters into our private sphere and in some sense it calls us to be constantly available – to be on-stream but also to live in series of accessibilities. The re-organisation of our life is obvious, but the role of images in this “re-” or “de-” organisation still requires some reflection. We are in constant tension between being-in-series and being-on-stream. We perceive ourselves as moving-images on screen. It affects our relationships and our perception.
We want to rethink seriality and streaming not only as certain phenomenon, but also as a notion itself. Consequently, what does series and streaming mean? How do they work? How do they shape our life, habitual processes and behavior? How do they change our thinking and orient us toward objects such as works of art? Last but not least – what does it mean to be inside of the series or what does it mean to be outside of the series? What does it mean to be between series and streaming? We hoped to find answers to this and similar questions or at least clarify them during this event.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Adam J. Nocek, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Adam Lipszyc, Jakub Momro, Szymon Wróbel
Link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961559186?pwd=NUY5aEpRdmptaUZRcVlIYTZaTEtkQT09
Passcode: Seriality
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