ILUMINACE

The new themed issue is out now!
📀𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚
Guest editor: Veronika Hanakova
Read the issue here 👇https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn2.php

What if we turned our perspective around and, instead of asking what impact the computer has had on moving images, explored what computer iconography looks like in and through audiovisual media? The special issue of ILUMINACE tackles this question, diving into the complex and often contradictory portrayals of computer labor in film and television series.

This issue features both written papers and audiovisual essays. The lineup includes:

📀 Veronika Hanáková: Configuring Computer Labor in Film and Audiovisual Media: An Introduction to a Special Issue
📀 Steve F. Anderson: Envisioning the Interface
📀 Daniel O’Brien: The Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer: A Supercut of Onscreen Computers in Speculative Screen Fiction
📀 Occitane Lacurie: Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early Computing
📀 Simone Dotto: Do Corporate Films Dream of Cybernetic Governance? Computers (as Metaphors of) Industrial Labor and Society in Olivetti-Sponsored Films
📀 Matěj Pavlík: Techniques and Technologies to Compensate for Powerlessness
📀 Tibor Vocásek: Who Is Awful? Black Mirror and the Dystopian Imaginary of AI Labor
📀 David Álvarez: Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be: On Vaporwave’s Glitched, Aspirational Aesthetics

Book reviews:
📖 Ondřej Zach: Karlovarský festival jako platforma kulturní výměny i zbraň hybridní války (Jindřiška Bláhová, ed., Proplétání světů: Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary v období studené války)
📖 Veronika Hanáková: Seriously Unserious: Theoretical Implications of the Gimmick for Film and Media Studies (on Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form)

Printed version available soon 👉 www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace

📣 ILUMINACE announces a Call for Papers for its new themed issue:

🎞 Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity

Guest editor: Byron Davies (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2024
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025

This issue seeks to engage with how local contexts shape our understanding of filmic materials within the realms of experimental filmmaking, archival practices, film stock production, and broader media ecologies. It aims to move beyond traditional Western-centric frameworks, emphasizing regional and Indigenous perspectives that bring to light the diversity of filmic materiality around the world.

Read the full Call for Papers here:https://www.iluminace.cz/incpdfs/inf-990000-1400_10_007.pdf
Key Themes Include:
🟨 The aesthetic and philosophical significance of locally specific materialist film practices: from experimental cinema and found footage to animation and practices involving textiles and painting
🟨 Materialist theories and their alignment with anti-colonial and anti-imperialist thought
🟨 Global circulations of film theory and their impact on our notions of filmic matter
🟨 Archival challenges and the geographic particularities of collecting, curating, and preserving film
🟨 The ecological impact of film practices and the potential for articulating degrowth visions through cinema
🟨 The influence of geopolitics on digital media, including the extraction and accessibility of resources like lithium and indium

This issue welcomes articles (6,000–7,500 words) and audiovisual essays (5–15 mins) accompanied by written statements (1,000–2,500 words).

Submission Details:
Abstracts (250 words + 3–5 references) and a short bio (150 words) are due by December 15, 2024.
Authors will be notified by January 15, 2025.
Full submissions are due by April 30, 2025.
No payments are required.
Submit to: 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected]

🖼 Still image from Ñuhu: Seres Sagrados (Julio César Saavedra Castro and Biznaga Audiovisual, 2022), courtesy of the artist

První číslo nového ročníku je tu ✨ Jako vždy můžete číst volně na www.iluminace.cz, anebo kupovat sběratelské papírové vydání na eshop.nfa.cz. A jaké texty v nové Iluminaci najdete?
▶️ Lukáš Slavík a Klára Smejkal publikují závěry z výzkumu české veřejnoprávní streamovací platformy iVysílání.
▶️ Kryštof Kočtář analyzuje performanci Martina Ježka s názvem "Náš očistec".
▶️ Ondřej Zach rozebírá osudy filmu Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntág Věry Chytilové.
▶️ Tomáš Hubáček se zabývá fenoménem sbližování profesionálního a amatérského animovaného filmu v Československu v 70. let.
▶️ Ivan Klimeš rozkrývá snahy Československé obce sokolské vybudovat centrálně řízený řetězec biografů.
📚 Recenzujeme knihu Petra Szczepanika "Screen Industries in East-Central Europe", publikaci Veroniky Pehe "Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" a sborník editorského dua Ksenya Gurshtein – Sonja Simonyi "Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe".