No. 1 (2018): Sound Transit

This issue aims at reflecting on the moments of transit within the audiovisual media world. It is in these key moments of transformation, in which what is new has not yet taken shape and what is old does not conform to social expectations any longer, that sound and visual languages are renewed and audiovisual experiences start to reveal new expression patterns. During transit (transitional moments), there are changes in the audiovisual media economy, in the technology and in its implementation, in the modes of representation and popular imagination, in the audiovisual production, in the acoustic perception and its reception, in narrative structures, and in the theorisation and aesthetics of the audiovisual phenomena.

 Every stage of transit reveals the necessity of an interdisciplinary perspective for the understanding of the scope of the transformation; while at the same time allows for the suggestive possibility of observing all these moments of change together in a constellation. The purpose of this conference is thus to collectively address the processes of transformation of the audiovisual language in different historical instances, with a special emphasis on the sound dimension.