Description
The Besides the Screen network seeks to examine the continuing transformation of audiovisual practices by focusing on its underlying objects, processes and materials. For fifteen years, the network has put together more than a dozen publications and events addressing subjects such as infrastructures of distribution, marketing and promotion, archives, curating, volumetric imaging, and algorithmic filmmaking.In 2025, the Besides the Screen conference returns to the city of Ningbo to survey the state of the media, culture and creative industries field, while exploring the various ways in which agency is distributed and negotiated across borders – whether institutional, spatial, linguistic, or technological. Cinema, a quintessentially modern art form, has been cooperative from the outset. The industrial nature of filmmaking has often required not only a vast workforce but also an unprecedented combination of expertise, much of which has been embedded in the devices of media production. The increasingly complex economy of the moving image has expanded the scope of these collaborations both territorially and technologically. On the one hand, initiatives like transnational co-production agreements aim to uproot the geopolitics of filmmaking by optimizing access to resources, funding, markets, and talent. On the other, systems such as virtual environments and AI agents promises to wrap all forms of media labour and expression around them.
With these phenomena in mind, this conference seeks to address questions such as:
How are these new collaborative arrangements reshaping the limits of audiovisual practices and circulation? What enables the translation across the multiple cultures, systems, and intelligences that audiovisual media bring together? What new artforms may emerge or diverge from their operation?
Related research areas include:
Cultural and Creative Industries
Film, TV, and Screen Studies
Game Studies
Digital Humanities and Emerging Technologies
New media, contemporary, and performance arts
| Period | 5 Jun 2025 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Ningbo , ChinaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Translation and Interpreting
- collaboration