Thursday, March 21, 2019, from 9am to 5pm amphi 10011 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, the Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) laboratory will be holding a study day on "Connected phones and cinema".
This event is co-organized by Anaïs Guilet, lecturer in comparative literature at the LLSETI,Université Savoie Mont Blanc, and Corinne Melin, professor of contemporary art history and aesthetics, École Supérieure d'Art et de Design des Pyrénées, Pau-Tarbes.
The study day will be preceded on March 20, 2019, from 6:30pm to 8pm, by the presentation of the film Attack the sun, in the presence of Fabien Zocco, one of the directors.
About the study day
The guardians of our nights, placed on our bedside tables, huddled close to us in our clothing pockets, efficient guides on all our journeys, so-called smart/connected cell phones have become the companions of our daily lives. In so doing, they are fundamentally altering our relationship with space and time, changing our cognitive and cultural practices, and consequently our ways of thinking and acting. Naturally, this omnipresence cannot fail to appeal to artists, writers and filmmakers. If, in David Shields' Reality Hunger, literature is "hungry for reality", so too is cinema, which in turn seeks to represent the individual in the grip of this hypermodernity, as Nicole Aubert notes in the title of the book she edited in 2006.
In the films that interest us during this study day, smartphones are not just a referential object. They engage us in an in-depth reflection on the consequences of the hypermodernity they represent, and the affects they produce on the contemporary individual, his or her being in the world, and his or her relationship with others.
This one-day event will explore how cinema reveals and questions the extent to which telephones shape our everyday experiences, as well as our mental representations.
Through the analysis of contemporary films, the aim is to grasp the singular representations of smartphones, which have the specificity of enabling their users to be mobile and connected, and offer another screen as an interface. This new screen - and whether it competes with that of cinema is open to question - imposes itself as a new site of reflexivity, thanks to the screen mise en abyme that presides over it. At the same time, it provides a window onto an off-screen world that is unprecedented for cinema, both in aesthetic terms and in terms of the philosophical, sociological and even anthropological issues to which its "narrative use" refers. As cinema clearly demonstrates, the banality and familiarity of smart/connected phones are as deceptive as they are full of future narratives about the imaginaries associated with their representations.
The workshop will be published inESADP's online art and design magazineéchappées.
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- Free admission
- Study day Facebook page
- Contact: Anaïs Guillet, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at LLSETI