EXTENDED CALL FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
Conference Theme:聽Dangerous knowledge, dangerous technologies: The power of contemporary artistic practice as disruptively constructive work.
The African Regional Association (CARA) of The International Association of Film and Television Schools (CILECT) would like to invite abstract submissions on the above theme for its 2024 conference which will be held on聽1 鈥� 4 July 2024聽at the Wits University Film and Television department, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The conference seeks to explore questions around a) knowledge and b) technological forms which disrupt normative political, social, and cultural regimes for human advancement in Africa. It draws inspiration from Plato鈥檚 famous state-utopian work Republic, which conceived of dangerous
knowledge as authentic facts which can potentially lead to disruption.鈥� History has demonstrated that disruption is often a necessary component to achieving meaningful change. This conference puts at the center of danger and disruption various cinematic, televisual and image-creation art-forms (as knowledge producing instruments and processes).