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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:50:10 +0530
Call For Papers
Visualization and Narrative: A themed issue of Reconstruction
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
<reconstruction.eserver.org> is soliciting papers for a special themed
issue on visualisation and narrative--with special reference to
filmmaking, information design, and computing.
Visualisation consists of the visual representation and analysis of
processes over time, in dynamically changing information spaces.
As filmmaking has moved to digital formats in writing screenplays,
making images and sounds and editing and manipulating those images, all
filmmaking processes are actually or potentially subject to visualisation.
This has led to new metaphors--for example the timeline, and the
possibility of applying techniques such as data mining and network
mapping to other areas of film production.
Papers looking at current and possible application of visualisation
techniques to the writing, realising and editing of films are
particularly encouraged. Papers can for example look at the influence of
interface design and visualisation on film practice and aesthetics. This
will include the effect of non-linear editing and effects and the
introduction of the timeline as a dominant metaphor for visualisation in
film.
We would also like to encourage contributions from scientific
disciplines where visualisation has transformed the understanding of the
process, or enabled a different perception of narrative.
Film is particularly interesting as a focus of study, because as well as
being an industrial and aesthetic practice which can be differently
approached and understood through visualisation, it is itself a form of
visualisation, which transforms social relationships and events into
image-based narrative developing over time. Film language is therefore
the ultimate source of many of the techniques of visualisation. We see
potential for a productive dialogue between disciplines which looks at
the changes that visualisation can or will bring to filmmaking but also
looks at what film language and film techniques have to contribute to
visualisation and the dynamic relationship between visualisation and
narrative.
Completed papers are are to be submitted by December 15, 2007 to Lina
Khatib <linakhatib@xxxxxxxxx>. Revisions will be due in March 2008;
publication expected in October 2008.
Guest Editors: Adam Ganz and Lina Khatib
About the journal: Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
(ISSN: 1547-4348) <reconstruction.eserver.org> is an innovative,
peer-reviewed cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an
intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting
them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most
important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary
studies. Reconstruction is published quarterly--in the third week of
January, April, July, October--and is indexed in the MLA International
Bibliography.