Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds
Date: 2nd – 4th December 2020
Where: Online – Media, Arts and Technology. University of California, Santa Barbara, Estados Unidos.
4th International Congress on Ambiances
Congress web:https://ambiances2020.ambiances.net/
Following the congresses of Grenoble (Creating an Atmosphere, 2008), Montreal (Ambiances in Action, 2012) and Volos (Ambiances, Tomorrow, 2016), this 4th International Congress on Ambiances aims to bring together a large community of academics, practitioners, artists and students working on, with or through atmospheres. The meeting will be held Wednesday, December 2, to Friday, April 4, 2020 and will feature more than a hundred presentations, posters, workshops, art installations and performances.
Entitled “Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds“, the 4th International Congress on Ambiances focuses on the renewal of the forms of feeling in a world that is undergoing major changes. Composed by “allo” which stands for “other, of another kind”, using the term alloaesthesia aim to characterize: other senses, or senses of another kind, and suggests to be comprehensive of the emergence of potential new kinds of senses and sensibilities. This Congress aims to consider how the contemporary environmental, social, technological, political and ethical changes are likely to affect the sensitive worlds, their ambiances, and the ways of experiencing them. How these changes question the research on ambiances and atmospheres, at epistemological, theoretical, methodological and practical levels? [read more…]
Download the full Call for papers
Deadline for Abstract submission on conference website: 20th March 2020
Selected abstracts will be notified by early April 2020.
General inquiries can be directed to the organization committee of the Congress at: ambiances2020@ambiances.net