You can check the conference program below or download a one-page version here.
You can download the conference booklet here to check the abstracts.
10.00 WELCOME: Aslı Tunç & Ayça Çiftçi
10.15 KEYNOTE: Gillian Rose (University of Oxford)
Embodying life in digitally-mediated cities: ground and flow in urban animation
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.15 PANEL: Beyond Boundaries: Flowing Sounds & Memories, Ecofeminism & Feminist Experiments
Zeynep Toraman, Doğa Cinel, Anna Doyle, Ebru T-Diken & Nilüfer N. Arslan
Moderator: Başak Uçanok Tan
12.30 LUNCH BREAK
13.30 COLLOQUIUM: Waters Eroding Boundaries
Beril Anaç, Berke Derin Yavuzalp, Ceylan Fatma Ceylan, Delal Şahin, Emre Kalaylar, Gizem Hayali, Hilal Şimşek, Hüseyin Buğra Çelik, Irteza Rehman, Katya Arakelyan, Murat Arda Gürsoy, Onur Kocatürk, Özge Akyüz, Pelin Çılgın, Rasimcan Bayram, Selin Umay Özmen, Sertaç Bozkurt, Yiğit Serdar Canoğlu
Moderator: Ebru Thwaites Diken
15.00 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 PANEL * : Fishing, Hydrofeminism, Histories Carried in Water
Mark Fryers, Yo-E Ryou, Bilge Emine Arslan
Moderator: Şirin Erensoy
16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.45 PANEL * : Photography, Wet Ontology, NFT Poetry
Bryn Tales, Eva Theodoriou, Stephanie Polsky
Moderator: Diğdem Sezen
17.45 COFFEE BREAK
18.00 PANEL * : Liquid Ecology, Urban Memory and Watery Poetics
Pauline Shongov, Su Baloğlu, Kelly Rappleye
Moderator: Nazan Haydari Pakkan
19.00 COFFEE BREAK
19.15 PANEL * : Female Histories: Cartography, Rebirth and Resistance
Santasil Mallik, Tania Ahmadi, Young Joo Lee
Moderator: Nazan Haydari Pakkan
10.00 KEYNOTE: Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University)
Atmospheres of projection
10.45 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 PANEL: Ocean-Crossing, Aquatic Horror and Oceanic Feeling
Çiçek Üşümezgezer, Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Oğuz Kayır
Moderator: Ayça Çiftçi
12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.15 PANEL: Seascape, Cityscape and the Landscape: Imaging & the Gaze
Aleksi Rennes, Esen Kunt, Elif Hant, Bilge Bal
Moderator: Ayşegül Kesirli Unur
13.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.15 PANEL: Fluidity, Gender and The City
Zehra Derya Koç, Derya Özkan, Zeynep Merve Uygun
Moderator: Ebru Thwaites Diken
15.15 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 PANEL: Return to Seeding Island
Revna Altiok, Berna Çelikkaya, Çağla Demirbaş, Gökçen Erkılıç, Çağla Gillis, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
Moderator: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
17.00 PANEL * : Experimental Cinema And Topographical Thinking
Kendra McLaughlin, Elizabeth Brun
Moderator: Beth Tsai
17.45 COFFEE BREAK
18.00 PANEL * : Ocean Of Information, Virtual Reality and Digital Abject
John Kausch, Jason Leo, Szilvia Ruszev
Moderator: Ebru Thwaites Diken
19.00 CLOSING ROUNDTABLE
The panels marked with (*) will take place HYBRIDLY.
May 5 Hybrid Panels - Zoom Session link:
Meeting ID: 840 0914 3864
Passcode: 096960
May 6 Hybrid Panels - Zoom Session link:
Meeting ID: 852 7323 5240
Passcode: 618077
Bu atölye, insandan-ibaret-olmayanlara odaklanan geliştirme aşamasındaki projelerin ilerlemesine katkı sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Proje sahiplerine, fikirlerini hem meslektaşlarıyla hem de eleştirel insan-sonrası teori ve insandan-ibaret-olmayanların filmik temsili konularında deneyimli yürütücülerle paylaşma, birlikte düşünme, analiz etme ve geliştirme imkânı sağlayacaktır.
Atölye, konferansın gerçekleşeceği 5-6 Mayıs 2023 tarihlerinde öncelikle yüz yüze olarak gerçekleşecektir. Atölye kapsamında, insandan-ibaret-olmayanların gerek konvansiyonel gerekse eleştirel temsiline dair öne çıkan örnekler üzerinden yapılacak seminer dersini takiben, grup oturumlarında her bir proje sahibi çalışmasını sunacak, tartışacak ve geri bildirim alacaktır. Katılımcılar aldıkları geri bildirim doğrultusunda projeleri üzerine çalışıp, atölyeyi takip eden ayın sonunda çevrimiçi olarak yürütücülerle bire bir görüşme yaparak detaylı öneri ve destek alacaklardır.
Kimler katılımcı olabilir?
Öğrenciler veya ilk ya da ikinci filmini çekmiş/çekecek olan yazar/yönetmenler katılımcı olabilirler. Adaylar proje geliştirme aşamasındaki kısa filmleri, deneme filmleri ya da video projeleriyle başvurabilirler. Proje sahibi tek kişi olabileceği gibi en fazla iki kişiden oluşan bir ekip de olabilir. Atölye ve bire bir görüşme dili Türkçe olacaktır.
Başvuru için neler gerekli?
* Başvurular ozlem.guclu@msgsu.edu.tr ve ayca.ciftci@bilgi.edu.tr e-posta adreslerine en son 29 Nisan 2023 tarihine kadar gönderilmelidir.
** Kontenjan 10 proje ile sınırlıdır ve başvuru sırasına göre kabul edilecektir. Başvuruların sayısındaki yoğunluğa göre yürütücüler gerektiğinde proje dosyasına göre seçim yapabilirler.
The concept of border crossing and conquest, or the acquisition of territory, has widely been cast as patriarchal, whereas the ocean’s fluidity, the darkness, and the endless immensity of the sea are often considered ‘dangerously feminine’. The mythological assumptions that operate in many ancient philosophical writings qualify the feminine with formlessness, wetness and darkness, qualities that indicate non-governability, unpredictability and monstrosity, qualities ascribed to the ocean.
Hester Blum suggests that, “in its geophysical, historical, and imaginative properties, the sea […] provides a new epistemology – a new dimension – for thinking about surfaces, depths, and the extra-terrestrial dimensions of planetary resources and relations”. With a special interest in the relationships between the oceanic, the moving image and the feminine, the fifth annual conference of İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film and Television, follows the call of ‘oceanic studies’ for a new epistemology that thinks with water and from water so as to explore the possibility of an oceanic flux in films and film studies. After all, moving image arts offers a great potential to think with the waves, currents and tides of water so as to narrate alternative stories. Highlighting this potential, the conference focuses on artistic imaginings of land and sea in moving image arts – film, video, video essay and etcetera, aspiring to seek new topographical vantage points for viewing the internal and the external worlds. We would like to invite contributors to contemplate on artistic and scholarly acts of leaving the static and solid ground of the terrestrial lands and diving into the intangible, unknowable, inhabitable, unpredictable oceans.
Besides traditional academic papers and roundtables, the conference welcomes non-traditional papers and workshop proposals, video essays, films, and videos. Individual paper presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. We will also consider pre-constituted, 30-minute roundtable discussions with 3-5 designated participants. For films, videos and video essays, the conference presentation will consist of up to 10 minutes for screening the work (an excerpt may be selected if the full video essay exceeds this limit), followed by 10 minutes of commentary from the creator.
Please submit an abstract (max 300 words), 3-5 bibliographical sources, 3-5 keywords, and a short CV by February 15, 2023. The selected abstracts for the symposium will be announced by March 5, 2023.
Abstracts selected for presentation will be published online prior to the conference. Full papers selected for publication will be announced after the conference. The conference language is English and no simultaneous translation will be provided.
Contact person: Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, nilufer.arslan@bilgi.edu.tr
Possible topics for papers, roundtables, video essays, films and videos include, but are not limited to:
Dr. Feride Çiçekoğlu | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Ebru Thwaites Diken | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Ayça Çiftçi | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Ayşegül Kesirli Unur | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Beth Tsai | University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Katie Bird | The University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Gökçen Erkılıç | Harvard University
Dr. Diğdem Sezen | Teesside University
Dr. Şirin Erensoy | Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Res. Assist. Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan | Istanbul Bilgi University