The Off-Screen Graduate Conference

25 Park Place Northeast,Atlanta GA 30303

23 February, 2023

Description

The Off-Screen" is a graduate student conference hosted and organized by the Georgia State University FMT Graduate Theory Study Group. The conference seeks to theorize one of, if not the, most constitutive, yet elusive, moving image forms: the off-screen. The aim of the conference is twofold. First, it aims to reinvigorate a theoretical interest in the centrifugal--and perhaps centripetal?-force of the moving image, that which opens up and ceaselessly modulates the experiential channels of audiovision: their production of image and movement, of meaning and feeling; their relays of fiction and allegory; their activations of history, of memory, and the durational space of reception, of attention's intention. Which brings us, this last, to our second aim: to account for the out-of-field occupied by-and occupying-the spectator; more precisely, we want to discover how these variable binaries of "on" and "off" function post-theatrically. In other words, after technological and capital convergence, after the multiplication of frames, after the mobilization of screens, how do they-and the spectator-now work, if at all?"