New Formats, Actors, and Places in audiovisual Media

International Symposium on future developments of visual narratives. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne, 17–18 Nov 2017. All talks and discussions are in English.

Location: Viscosi building 745, Nylsuisseplatz 1, Emmenbrücke, 1st floor, room 115, media lab.

Registration for the symposium is open until the 30 Oct 2017. Please register here.

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The field of audiovisual media has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Until recently, the amount of audiovisual technologies was manageable; channels of distribution were few; media and film schools taught their students a broadly accepted canon of crafts and skills. Graduates would work as self-employed filmmakers or photographers and as technicians, as representatives and media developers for TV-Stations or other media-companies. Those days are over. Digitization and distribution via the Internet and social media have proved a massive disruption to traditional structures. Young directors and media producers are defining new positions in an ever-shifting media ecology, constantly facing the pressure to adapt to a wide array of technological, economical as well as social changes. These shifts in tools, professional status, networks, and aesthetics have had a huge impact on authorial agendas.