The Audiovisual Essay: a digital methodology for film and media studies

研究电影和媒体的学者传统上以与其他人文学科相同的形式发表他们的作品——尤其是书籍和评论文章。但是，数字技术的发展为利用数字媒体进行分析和传达有关数字媒体的论点提供了令人兴奋的新可能性。这项资助将支持一个为期一天的数字美学公共研讨会，由十二位著名的电影和媒体学者组成，以及一个为期两天的研讨会，重点是鼓励这些学者将他们的报告发展成结合动态图像和声音的“视听论文”。为期一天的研讨会，无限期的愿景，将在白教堂画廊（伦敦）举行，演讲者将展示，分享和讨论他们在数字美学方面的最新研究。受邀的参与者将包括CI即将编辑的关于“不确定”数字视频效果和人工制品（包括模糊、故障、像素化、扭曲、失真和口吃）在当代电影和移动图像艺术中所起作用的贡献者。研讨会之后将有一个为期两天的实践研讨会，旨在为学术参与者提供必要的创新背景和技术技能，以实现向数字学术的飞跃。研讨会将由三位世界一流的视频散文家主持。在这三位从业者的指导下，学术参与者将在一个支持性的环境中考虑视频论文的理论基础和他们创作中涉及的实际问题，并将尝试自己制作视听论文。研讨会和工作坊将在三天的每一天进行公开放映，展示视觉艺术家和其他从业者如何使用数字图像来质疑数字图像的关键例子。研讨会、工作坊和相关放映活动将由PI在白教堂画廊的支持下组织。孔子学院将与学术参与者联络，协助活动的组织。PI和CI都将出席研讨会，并制作一篇视听文章。此外，PI还将编辑一期特刊《过渡：录像电影与运动影像研究》，其中将收录由参与者制作的经过同行评议的视听论文。本期特刊对于传播和推广研讨会中探讨的数字学术至关重要；它将利用资深学者参与该项目来倡导视听电影和媒体奖学金，并为准备向数字实践过渡的电影和媒体研究人员提供指导。PI是一位电影制作人和视频散文家，他的作品曾在五大洲的电影节和博物馆展出，他还是《过渡》杂志的编辑委员会成员。CI是《无限愿景》（Beugnet & Cameron, 2016）的联合编辑。爱丁堡大学出版社)，即将出版的关于数字美学的出版物，其中将包括研讨会主持人的文章。已确认的撰稿人包括w.j.t.m Chion, Jacques Aumont, Michel Chion， Raymond Bellour和D.N.Rodowick。该项目将PI在数字媒体制作方面的专业知识与CI的国际电影和媒体研究网络相结合，将率先使用数字视频技术作为关键工具，从而扩大人文学者的表达可能性。

Scholars researching film and media traditionally publish their work in the same forms as other disciplines in the humanities - notably, books and critical essays. But developments in digital technology afford exciting new possibilities for conducting analysis and conveying arguments about digital media by using digital media. This grant will support a one-day public symposium on digital aesthetics presented by a group of twelve leading film and media academics, and an associated two-day workshop focused on encouraging these scholars to develop their presentations into 'audiovisual essays' incorporating moving images and sound. The one-day symposium, Indefinite Visions, will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) and will allow speakers to present, share, and discuss their latest research on digital aesthetics. Invited participants will comprise contributors to the CI's upcoming edited collection on the role that 'indefinite' digital video effects and artefacts (including blur, glitch, pixellation, warping, distortion, and stutter) play in contemporary film and moving image arts. The symposium will be followed by a two-day hands-on workshop, designed to give the academic participants the creative context and technical skills necessary to make the leap to digital scholarship. The workshop will be led by three world-leading video essayists. In a supportive environment, mentored by these three practitioners, academic participants will consider the theoretical foundations of video essays and the practical issues involved in their creation, and will experiment with producing audiovisual essays themselves. The symposium and workshop will be supported by a public screening on each of the three days, that will showcase key examples of how visual artists and other practitioners have used digital images to interrogate digital images. The symposium, workshop, and accompanying screenings will be organised by the PI with the support of the Whitechapel Gallery. The CI will contribute to event organsation by liaising with the academic participants. Both the PI and CI will present at the symposium, and also produce an audiovisual essay. The PI will additionally edit a special issue of [in]Transition: Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, which will feature a peer-reviewed selection of the audiovisual essays produced by the participants. This special issue will be essential for disseminating and promoting the digital scholarship explored in the workshop; it will leverage the participation of senior academics in the project to advocate audiovisual film and media scholarship, and provide a lead for film and media researchers ready to make the transition to digital practice. The PI is a film-maker and video essayist whose work has been shown at festivals and museums on five continents, and is an editorial board member of [in]Transition. The CI is co-editor of Indefinite Visions (Beugnet & Cameron, 2016. University of Edinburgh Press), a forthcoming publication on digital aesthetics which will feature articles by the presenters at the symposium. Confirmed contributors include W.J.T.Mitchell, Jacques Aumont, Michel Chion, Raymond Bellour, and D.N.Rodowick. Combining the PI's expertise in digital media-making with the CI's international film and media research network, the project will pioneer the use of digital video technology as a critical tool, and so expand the expressive possibilities available to scholars in the humanities.