THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF INTERMEDIALITY TODAY
An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop
University of Edinburgh
Thursday 14 and Friday 15 March 2024
In this first joint workshop of the research partnerships in intermedial studies between the University of Edinburgh and Meiji University (Tokyo, Japan), Linnaeus University (Sweden) and Aix-Marseille University (France), with guests from IULM Milano (Italy), we wish to explore exciting new developments in the field of Intermediality studies, both in terms of theories and practices. What are the most prominent ways of approaching intermediality and multimodality today, and how can these trends, critical traditions and their respective concepts be put into dialogue, combined or transformed in artistic practice? How can ideas and methods used in one of these analytical or artistic modes facilitate creative innovation in another? How can critical approaches conventionally applied to one medium or art form help us to better understand another? More generally, how can bringing into contact different artistic traditions ranging from classic to more contemporary media spur creativity and the construction of new kinds of aesthetic experience and semiotic interpretations? How do specific media and art forms interact in and between different cultures and historical eras, in the context of pressing lines of enquiry such as eco-criticism, gender studies, and postcolonialism and decolonization studies?
Exchanges in this workshop will be greatly enriched by crossed cultural and academic perspectives between our respective institutions. We seek to initiate a discussion between established scholars of intermediality, early-career colleagues and research students that will help us forge new creative and critical positions in this fast-developing field of study—a field which has prompted some of the most original concepts and critical theories since the beginning of the 21st century.
Each paper should be around 15 minutes. Question sessions should be 20-30 minutes and are held after all the papers on the panel.
Thursday 14 March
Morning sessions, 40 George Square; Afternoon sessions, Appleton Tower
40 George Square, Room LG.09 (Lower Ground floor)
09:20-09:30 Welcome & Workshop Introduction
09:30-10:30 Panel 1: Intermedial Nostalgia, Archive and Memory (Chair: Fabien Arribert-Narce)
-Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus), ‘Intermedial Nostalgia’
-Dagmar Brunow (Linnaeus), ‘Transmediating Audiovisual Memory: Activating an Archive of Possibilities through the Photofilm’
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00 Panel 2: Intermediality and Ecocriticism (Chair: Emanuela Patti)
-Jørgen Bruhn (Linnaeus), ‘Intermedial Ecocriticism – and beyond’
-Felicia Stenberg (Linnaeus), ‘Make It Make Sense: Internet Memes In Space Opera as Tools for Grasping Environmental Crisis’
-Matilda Davidsson (Linnaeus), ‘Intermedial Angles on a Cat’s Journey: First Cat Perspective in Novel Stray (1987) and Video Game Stray (2022)’
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Appleton Tower, Room 2.14 (Second floor)
13:00-14:00 Panel 3: Intermedial Theatre (Chair: Inma Sanchez-Garcia)
-Yagmur Atlar (Linnaeus), ‘Remediation of Actualisation Through Semi-Virtuality in Tim Crouch’s Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel’
-Déborah Prudhon (Aix-Marseille), ‘Intermedial Dialogue Between the Page and the Stage: Tim Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (2019)’
14:15-15:30 Panel 4: Intermedial Modernity, Generic Hybridity and The Poetics of Gameplay (Chair: Rumiko Oyama)
-Gil Charbonnier (Aix-Marseille), ‘“A little too much is just enough for me”: Jean Cocteau’s Intermediality in Menton’
-Julia Larsen (Edinburgh), ‘“To Literally Become a House”: Gothic Cinematic Intermediality in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)’
-Emanuela Patti (Edinburgh), ‘Analysing Electronic Literature through Umberto Eco’s Opera aperta’
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:00 Panel 5: Between Speech and Writing, Images and Texts, Bodies and Faces (Chair: Niklas Salmose)
-Mariko Naito (Meiji), ‘Poetry as a Phonetic and Temporal Art Form or a Graphic and Spatial One? The Intermediality of Japanese Poetry in Medieval Japanese Poetics’
-Matthis Hervieux (Edinburgh), ‘Dany Laferrière’s Intermedial Practice: Between Haiti and Japan, Text and Painting’
-Alex Watson (Meiji), ‘The Face of the Pacific: Sydney Parkinson’s A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas (1773)’
Friday 15 March
50 George Square, Project Room (Room 1.06, First floor)
09:15-10:30 Panel 6: Digital Environments and Pedagogical Matters (Chair: Ruth Menzies)
-Rumiko Oyama (Meiji), ‘Exploring Multimodal Factors in Literature: A trans-modal Approach to Literary Texts in the L2 Classroom’
-Anna Calise (IULM, Milano), ‘Museum MOOCs, Intermedial Landscapes of Experience’
-Elodie Burle-Errecade and Valérie Gontero-Lauze (Aix-Marseille), ‘How to Analyze a Medieval Manuscript through the Prism of Intermediality?’
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00 Panel 7: Intermedial Transfers – Multimodality and Databases (Chair: Alex Watson)
-Alexandra Huang (Edinburgh), ‘Exploring the Performativity of Affect in the Intermedial Musical Poetry of Ojārs Vācietis’
-Martin van der Linden (Linnaeus), ‘Shinto, the Sacred, and “Like and Subscribe”: Theorizing the Potential for a Multimodal-Intermedial Analysis of YouTube Videos’
-Ema Tanaka (Meiji), ‘An Implication from the Linking between “Japan Search” and “Media Arts” Database – How popular culture became recognized as media art?’
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:00 Panel 8: Music, Song and Poetry (Chair: Emanuela Patti)
-Martin Knust (Linnaeus), ‘Speech, Song and the Materialities of Music’
-Benoît Loiret (Edinburgh), ‘Yves Bonnefoy and Musicians: Music, Poetry, Silence’
14:15-15:30 Panel 9: Film, Theatre, Drawing and Other Media – between Aesthetic and Ethical Concerns (Chair: Inma Sanchez-Garcia)
-François Giraud (Edinburgh), ‘Bodies and Screens: The Practice of Online Life Drawing during the Covid-19 Lockdowns’
-Anna Ishchenko (Linnaeus), ‘The Poetics of Gameplay and the Poetics of Ambience in the Video Game Kentucky Route Zero (2013-2019)’
-Katie Pleming (Edinburgh), ‘Staging symbolic violence at the interstices of film and theatre: Alice Diop’s La Mort de Danton (2011)’
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:45 Panel 10: Intersemiotic Adaptations and Remediations (Chair: Fabien Arribert-Narce)
-Vincenzo Di Rosa (IULM, Milano), ‘The Exhibition as Fiction: Intermedial practices in curatorial adaptations’
-Ruth Menzies (Aix-Marseille), ‘From Gulliver to Goveller: an intermedial reappropriation of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels’
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