[Discussion] CFP: Optika: A Symposium on Visual Narration (Puerto Rico) (12/1/04; 2/17/05-2/18/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Optika
A Symposium on Visual Narration
University of Puerto Rico, Mayag=FCez Campus
Thursday and Friday February 17 and 18, 2005


Optika is a two-day symposium which will explore the theory and
practice of visual narrative. Academics, independent scholars,
students, and artists are invited to participate. Both academic and
creative work are welcome and may be submitted in either English or
Spanish. The organizers are interested in a variety of critical and
theoretical perspectives which contribute to our understanding of the
many ways we might conceive of  visual narrative. We are also
interested in formal diversity. Thus papers or creative work may engage
with the visual in defined genres, or in less-studied hybrid or
emerging forms.  Forms and genres include film, television, music
videos, theater, opera, performance art, installations, painting,
sculpture, photography, commercials, billboards, comics, cartoons,
graphic novels, graffiti, digital and internet forms. Selected work
will be published in the symposium proceedings.

Academic submissions are by abstract and should be accompanied by a
brief biography. Papers should be no more than twenty minutes long.

Creative work is by proposal (300 word maximum) and should be
accompanied by a brief biography of the artist and a visual
representation of the proposed work. Presentations or projections may
last from 1 to 10 minutes. In the case of photographs, paintings,
sculpture and other static forms, the artist should submit a narrative
piece composed of up to 10 individual elements (e.g. a narrative
composed of 10 photographs). Submissions which include more than ten
elements may be accepted if the artist convincingly justifies the
inclusion of all the elements proposed.

The organizers seek to include a variety of artistic forms and
approaches to visual narrative and will give preference to submissions
which will provoke the spectator to reflect upon, question or rethink
the ways in which stories can be visually constructed.


Deadline for submissions: 	December 1, 2004


Send submissions to:		Mary Leonard
				English Department
				University of Puerto Rico
				Mayag=FCez Campus
				Mayag=FCez, Puerto Rico 00681

e-mail:	mleonard@prw.net
webpage: http://ac.uprm.edu/optika






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