[Englecturers] FW: Fan/tastic Visuals Panel (11/29/05; ICFA, 3/15/06-3/19/06)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Subject: CFP: Fan/tastic Visuals Panel (11/29/05; ICFA, 3/15/06-3/19/06)


PANEL INFORMATION:

"Fan/tastic Visuals"

Panellists are being sought for a potential session to be submitted to 
the 2006 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), 
March 15-19 at the Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Ft. 
Lauderdale, Florida. This panel will focus on fan art, photo 
manipulation, video, web design, costuming, body modification, and other 
visual methods of creativity/expression by speculative fiction fan 
communities.

A panel discussion at the ICFA is typically 4-5 people participating in 
a more informal discussion on a given topic with greater audience 
participation as compared to the formal (and longer) paper sessions. The 
ICFA allows people to present a paper as well as participate in a panel 
discussion (information on Division Heads and paper submissions can be 
found at http://iafa.org/).

As Fan Studies is, by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field, 
scholars of all disciplines are invited to participate as members of the 
panel.

Please send your contact info (including name, institutional 
affiliation, snailmail, email and phone number) and a brief summary of 
your scholarly interests as relating to the panel topic and the main 
point(s) or questions you would like to present during the panel 
discussion to Eden Lackner (lothlorien AT shaw DOT ca).

Each panellist will have 5 minutes for individual statements, and then 
the discussion will be opened up for audience questions and participation.


CONFERENCE INFORMATION:

The 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Drawn by the
Fantastic: Comics, Graphic Novels, Art & Literature

March 15-19, 2006
Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel

The focus of ICFA-27 is on the fantastic in media other than the written 
word or film, including comics and graphic novels, web design and photo 
manipulation, cover art and illustration, picture books and pulps, film 
posters and CD covers, trading cards and tarot cards, cityscapes and 
landscapes, maps and tattoos and costuming, not to mention the stuff you 
hang on walls. Examine the role of art and artists as subjects of the 
fantastic, or the influence of the fantastic, written or filmed, on the 
world of art. Explore the construction of race and gender in images of 
vampires, elves, and aliens. In addition, we look forward to papers on 
the work of Guest of Honor Charles Vess, Guest Scholar M. Thomas Inge, 
and Special Guest Writer Kathleen Ann Goonan. As always, we also welcome 
proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on 
any aspect of the fantastic in any media.

The deadline for submission of individual proposals is 30 November 2005.

Submission guidelines, Division Heads and more information is available 
at http://iafa.org/

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