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Actualités, Colloques

Poetics of the Algorithm / Poétiques de l’agorithme

Le groupe ACME organise un colloque international, Poétiques de l’algorithme : objets médiatiques « non-identifiés », qui aura lieu à l’Université de Liège (Belgique) du 16 au 18 juin 2016 et se penchera sur la fiction interactive, les apps, la bande dessinée numérique, les jeux vidéo, la littérature électronique et ces autres « nouveaux » médias. La conférence accueillera des communications ainsi que des tables-rondes, ateliers et panels. Nous invitons à participer des chercheurs aussi bien que des artistes, auteurs, programmeurs, développeurs, praticiens, designers, etc.

Voir l’appel à communication – Les propositions de communication (500 mots maximum) devront nous être adressées, avant le 20 décembre 2015, à l’adresse suivante acme.bdresearch@gmail.com

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 The ACME group organizes an international conference,  Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media at the University of Liège (Belgium), from June 16 to June 18, 2016. It focuses on interactive fiction, apps, digital comics, games, e-literature and other emerging, ‘new’ media. The conference will host workshops, roundtable discussions, panels, and presentations of papers. We invite scholars, artists, writers, programmers, (game) developers, practitioners, designers, etc. to participate in what we hope to be an extraordinary event.

See CFP – Pease send abstracts (500 words maximum) by 20 December to acme.bdresearch@gmail.com

ACME Speaker Series, Actualités

Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be – A Conference by Giorgio Busi-Rizzi (UNIBO/KU Leuven)

The ACME Speaker Series Presents:

 

“Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be.
Some Notes towards a Phenomenology
of the Nostalgic Feeling”
Giorgio Busi-Rizzi (UNIBO/KU Leuven)

 

 Mardi, 3 novembre 2015, à partir de 10h30
Séminaire LE
(ISLV – bât. A1, Place du XX Août, Liège)

(c) Seth

This presentation aims to conduct a survey of several graphic novels revolving around the theme of nostalgia and/or adopting aesthetic features that elicit it. I will start by reconstructing the historical evolution of the concept of nostalgia, following its metamorphosis from medical to psychological to everyday discourse, from a fully negative connotation to the richly nuanced semantics the term has nowadays, encompassing, at least in its extended use, the whole spectrum of feelings till the escapist jouissance of retro and vintage. I will then isolate a series of features that can help navigate through the concept of nostalgia, following some axes that help better understand its implications, and try to explain what seems to make comics so suitable to express or stimulate nostalgic feelings. Finally, I will briefly discuss the corpus of graphic novels I am currently researching on, quickly showing how, in my view, each of the selected work finds its own peculiar way to deal with nostalgia.

 

Giorgio Busi Rizzi is a PhD student with a joint supervision by the Universities of Bologna and Leuven. His research project focuses on nostalgia in a selection of graphic novels. He is interested in comics studies, narratology, humor theories and translation, and TV series.

 

The ACME Speaker Series is organized by the Comics Research Group ACME (http://www.acme.phl-lab.uliege.be/) and sponsored by BeIPD-COFUND ULg.

ACME Speaker Series, Actualités, Colloques

L’Expérimentation en bande dessinée : rencontre avec Pascal Matthey et Pedro Moura

The ACME Speaker Series Presents:

“L’Expérimentation en bande dessinée”
Rencontre avec Pascal Matthey (artiste)
et Pedro Moura (ULisboa/KU leuven)

 Mardi, 6 octobre 2015, à partir de 10h30
Salle Pousseur, Complexe Opéra
(Pl. de la République Française, 35, Liège)

(c) Pascal Matthey, 978, La Cinquième Couche, 2013.

Auteur de Pascal est enfoncé et de 978, Pascal Matthey évoquera son travail et la question de l’expérimentation en bande dessinée, qui sera ensuite reprise à un niveau théorique par Pedro Moura, critique et chercheur portugais.

10h30 – 12h30
Introduction par Pedro Moura
Conférence de Pascal Matthey suivie d’une session de question-réponse

14h – 16h
Introduction par Aarnoud Rommens
Conférence de Pedro Moura : “A Typology of Comics’ Experimentalism”

Comics is a complex and varied art form, which has gone through many changes throughout its history. However, despite the continual talk about the « potential of comics », most of the critical attention—whether scholarly, journalistic, museum-related or even in more popular contexts—is geared towards conventional examples which focus on formal and narrative aspects, thereby neglecting an important part of its production, especially what might be called the ‘experimental’ genre. In this informal talk I will discuss a rather straightforward typology of experimentalism within the medium of comics, trying to identify new paths for formal analysis by paying attention to a number of its specificities. Drawing from multiple examples throughout the history of comics as well as across multiple geographic sources and styles, a heuristic approach will unfold. Although this cannot but remain an ever-expanding work-in-progress, I believe these principles can lead to further productive investigation.

 

L’ACME Speaker Series est organisée par le Groupe de recherche en bande dessinée ACME (http://www.acme.phl-lab.uliege.be/) et sponsorisée par BeIPD-COFUND ULg.