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The Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA) invites scholars, artists, filmmakers, activists, educators, students, and community practitioners to submit proposals for the 2027 Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF), exploring the theme of 'MODES'.
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Get matched →The Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA) and the Center for Experimental Ethnography (CEE) announce the theme for the annual 2027 Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF): MODES. This hybrid media and art festival/academic conference features screenings, exhibitions, workshops, and performances alongside peer-reviewed academic panels. The festival provides a creative, collaborative space to explore multimodal strategies in research and interrogate their social implications, centering media and art as valid modes of knowledge production.
MODES invites participants to consider multimodality as an epistemological intervention that has long informed the multiplicity of ways knowledge comes into being. Rather than treating image, sound, performance, or creative practice as supplements to written research, MODES asks us to explore how different modes shape what is known, felt, exchanged, created, and transformed. This year’s festival further asks: How do different modes shape the production, circulation and reception of knowledge? What does one mode reveal about an object, experience, social action or performance that another mode might miss? What methods emerge when scholarship and creative practice intersect? What intellectual, artistic, and community histories inform multimodal work today? How do multimodal researchers situate themselves within the longer traditions that precede them? What models might guide emerging scholars and practitioners seeking to navigate academic, artistic, and communal contexts–from publishing to professional pathways?
We invite proposals from scholars, artists, filmmakers, activists, educators, students, and community practitioners.
Proposals are invited in formats including: audio projects, visual art, research presentations, poetry, film & video, workshops, performance, interactive media, and other multimodal work. Proposals must briefly reflect on the relationship between form and content, considering how their chosen mode(s) contribute to the creation, expression, and reception of the ideas explored within the work.
Most accepted submissions will be presented in a conference-style format alongside other selected works. A small number of projects may be featured as plenary events, screenings, workshops, or performances. Funding for travel, production, or elaborate staging is not available. Proposals requiring substantial technical or financial support may not be feasible.
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Submit your proposal here via the provided application link.