Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture
Category: Event
Possible topics may be (but are not limited to): Found footage, desktop horror and screenlife films The media landscape as commentary on authenticity, surveillance and digital presence The inclusion and role of screens in popular culture texts The role of social media platforms in shaping narratives of identity Intermedial aesthetics in contemporary media Impact of AI on interpersonal relationships, storytelling and, identity construction The intersection of digital technologies, race, gender, sexuality and class The depiction of digital embodiment, virtuality and the post-human condition Streaming platforms as a medium with specific creative and aesthetic conditions Use of historical footage to create contemporary media texts Screens, devices, androids, and how the digital has been imagined and represented The blurring of truth and digital / AI-generated fake, reality and hyperreal objects and texts Well-grounded critical examinations of the role of AI-human interaction in relation to self-perception and projection Well-grounded critical examinations of the discursive / verbal / aural ways in which AI and LLM “voices” shape interaction through register, sycophancy, simulated epistemic authority
Initiator(s):
British Association for American Studies
Deadline: 07.07.2025
Event
Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture
04.09.2025 - 05.09.2025
Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein