{"id":18608,"date":"2024-12-16T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskk.cz\/cz\/?page_id=18608"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:19:12","slug":"vskk-symposium-29-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskk.cz\/cz\/o-skole\/urad\/veda-a-vyzkum\/vskk-symposium-29-4-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u0160KK SYMPOSIUM 29. 4. 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Papers: Ecstatic Truth IX<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ways of Knowing: practice as research, material resistance and re-presented reality in <\/strong>expanded documentary form.
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\nWelcome proposals from PhD students, film practitioners, scholars and other researchers.
\nJoin us in Prague on Tuesday 29 th April, 2025 at vskk.cz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Keywords: knowledge, knowing, artistic research, practice as research, provisionality, <\/strong>metamorphosis, fact, truth, ecstatic truth, materiality, environment, media <\/strong>archaeology, media geology, sensory ethnography, experiential knowledge, <\/strong>algorithmic knowledge, expanded animation, expanded documentary, expanded <\/strong>communication, audio-visual media, resistance, animated documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the age of expanding powers of AI, we want to question what it means to understand, to get to know something and communicate this beyond the limited scope of human language. How do we engage in a process of getting to know, knowing ever deeper, more intimately, of making sense? How does your own (audio-visual) practice help you know something? What tools and methods do you use to get to know something? How does the process of research, the methods and tools that you use, impact the product itself, be it a film, performance or text?. What is the role of the environment you are in and the materials you engage with? And, considering the proliferation of virtual worlds, what is the role of the animated image in the development of new forms of perception? How do these particular forms of enquiry affect the answers you receive? What is the relationship to questions of \u201ctruth\u201d \u2013 how is truth shaped by the media through which it passes, the encounters with more-than-human worlds? What is the relationship between knowing something and knowing yourself? How does your knowing transform you? How do you transform your knowing into something that can help others to know, or to be transformed? Or in other forms, how do you use your research to communicate your insights?<\/p>\n

Given there are so many ways of knowing or getting to know, we invite you to share and question the methods and processes that you employ in order to produce your films\/audio-visual works. We are particularly interested in questioning the role of the body, materiality and also technology to mediate these complex dynamics between the physical world and the representation on the screen as well as beyond it. We are interested in speculations on questions of material, ecstatic, as well as algorithmic truth, embodied and situated knowledge, simulation and virtual realities in relationship to questions of authenticity, truth and understanding, the possible entanglements between these. We are equally interested in forms of resistance \u2013 to the established structures, opaque interfaces, dominant narratives propelled by corporations. What partisan, subversive forms of resistance, of softening, of finding cracks and openings have you found through your practice?<\/p>\n

Ecstatic Truth<\/strong> is an annual symposium on animated documentary founded in 2016 that explores issues arising from the interface between notions of animation (in its most expanded form) and of documentary (conceptualised very broadly as non-fiction) with a particular interest in questions raised by experimental and practitioner perspectives.<\/p>\n

Publication of selected papers<\/strong>
\nOur call for papers thematically coincides with an open call for Tangible Territory journal, which is one of our partners. Selected contributions will be offered a chance of publication in this open access online journal. More information: https:\/\/tangibleterritory.art\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<\/h3>\n

We call for papers, presentations and responses (for a 20minute slot) on themes outlined above.<\/p>\n

Your submission should include:<\/p>\n