July 20

Aesthetics Perception

10.00-10.45

Peter Wuss Opening Remarks & Explanation of Protocol

Joseph D. Anderson Introduction & Short Historical Perspective

10.45-12.00

David Bordwell You See It without Glasses: Problem and Solution in Early Cinemascope Style

13.00-15.15

Nadezda Mankovskaya Virtual Reality in Moving Images: Psychology of

Aesthetic Perception

Tamás Pólya, Erika Kapronczai Forms of Perceptual Reflexivity

Ben Singer On the Question of Stylistic Universals in Film

15.30-17.00

Richard Allen Theory, Interpretation and Humanistic Understanding

Henry Bacon Cognition and the Aesthetics of Reexperience

Doctoral Workshop *

* We decided to enlarge the conference format and to hold a special Doctoral Workshop. This workshop will give a group of PhD candidates the chance to introduce their ideas to the participants of the conference. The time for each speaker is limited to 15-20 min.

17.30-18.30

Melinda Szaloky Cinema as Aesthetic Consciousness

Mette Kramer The Epistemology of Looking

Informal Evening Session: Supportive Technologies

19.00-20.30

Steffen Mader, Christian Peter Verifying the Viewers Perception – A Bottom-up View

Christian Peter, Steffen Mader A Wireless Monitoring System to Observe Ongoing Emotions in Spectators

Matthias Rust, Christian Peter VIRAT: Supporting Emotional Film Analysis

July 21

Emotion / Cognition

9.00-10.30

Anne Bartsch Meta-emotion, and Genre Preference. What Makes Horror Films, and Tear-jerkers Enjoyable?

Charles Eidsvick SEEKING, Emotional Persistence, and Narrative Structure

10.45-12.00

Torben Grodal Biology, Function and Culture in Film Genres

12.45-14.15

Carl Plantinga Seeing is Not Feeling: Character and Spectator Emotion in Moving Image Media

Lothar Mikos The Concept of Scenic Comprehension – Emotional Response to Film between Biographical Drama and Unconscious Life-models

14.30-16.00

Peter Ohler Hot or Not? Cognitive-Emotional Processes in Film Viewing

Hans J. Wulff Narrative Developments and Emotional Scenarios: Correlations between Causal, Actional, and Constellative Elements of Narration

16.30-18.00

Monika Suckfüll Are There Hidden Patterns in Films?

Kevin W. Sweeney Cognitive Film Theory and Film Comedy

Doctoral Workshop *

18.15-19.45

Tim J.Smith An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing

Codruta Morari Metaphors, Emotions and Narrative Discontinuities

Aleksander Väljamäe Perceptual Optimization of Audio-Visual Media: Moved by Sound

July 22

Imagination / Empathy

9.00-10.30

Robin Curtis Expanded Empathy: Theodor Lipps and “General Apperceptive Empathy”

Jens Eder Perceiving and Reacting to Characters

10.45-12.15

Murray Smith Empathy Revisited

Manana Machabeli The Importance of Empathy while Creating Art Works and in theProcess of their Perception

13.15-15.30

Peter Wuss Overcoming Conflicts by Play: Play Behaviour on the Screen as Starting Point for an Understanding of Relationships between Cognition, Emotion and Imagination in the Viewer’s Mind

Bruce Hutchinson Understanding Character Motivation: A Process Oriented Approach to Realism

Johannes Riis Acting Styles as Appraisal Styles: Ingmar Bergman’s Strindbergian Approach

Doctoral Workshop *

16.45-18.15

Margrethe Bruun-Vaage Empathy as Engagement in Fiction and as Aesthetic Experience

Britta Hartmann Mixed Modes, Mixed Moods. Discomfort as strategy of iridescent texts.

Philipp Schmerheim Paradigmatic Forking-path Plots: Expanding the Possibilites of Film Perception

Informal Evening Session: Experimental Film: The Missing Frames

18.30-20.00

Moderator: David Bordwell

András Kovács The Experimental Cinema of the State

Chris Robinson The Impulse Towards Narrative

Joseph G, Kickasola Immediacy in Experimental and Contemporary Films

László Tarnay A Cognitive Approach to Experimental Film Making and Filmic Perception

Benjamin Meade Experimental Documentary: Non-Traditional Treatment of a Non-Fiction Subject

July 23

Media Aesthetics / Experimental Film / Rhythm

9.00-10.30

Daniel Barratt Assessing the Reality-Status of Film: Fiction or Non-Fiction, Live Action or CGI?

Kathrin Fahlenbrach Embodied Spaces. Film Spaces as (Leading) Audiovisual Metaphors

11.00-12.30

N. A. Khrenov Cinema as the Redemtion of Archetypal Reality

Larson Powell ‘Medial Eigenvalues’ (Mediale Eigenwerte): Cognitivism and Experimental Film Form

13.30-15.45

Edward Branigan The Visibilia of Invisible Observers

Bohdan Y, Nebesio Lyricism and Narrative Rhythm in Film

Casper Tybjerg Rhythm and Image in Dreyer's Films

James Tobias Glenn Gould's New Listeners: Immanence and Information

Doctoral Workshop *

16.30-17.30

Jonathan Frome The Pursuit of Tears: Sadness in Videogames Andreas L. Gregersen Perception, Action and Computer Video Games

Board Meeting                                                                                    

Closing Buffet Dinner