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SCSMI2017 Helsinki

The annual conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) welcomes you to the Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 11th – 14th, 2017

SCSMI2017 Helsinki program is under construction and changes are to occur. Meanwhile you may complete your personal information with a photo and some tags, so the other attendees and speakers will get to know more of you and your interests, and vice versa.

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Jelena Rosic

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Finland

Jelena Rosic is a film editor and doctoral candidate in New Media at Aalto Arts in Helsinki. She has been working with research groups NeuroCine and Crucible Studio on her thesis “Enactive Storytelling”. In her research she draws from embodied mind approach, enactive cognitive sciences and neurophenomenology in the study of narrative practice and has been training in micro-phenomenological methods. Her recent editing work, a feature film “Humidity” premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016 and had special screening at Festival de Cannes 2017 (L'ACID).

10:20 EEST

SCSMI KEYNOTE by Dr Paisley Nathan Livingston: On cinema as philosophy: the Kaila–Bergman connection revisited Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Paisley Nathan Livingston

13:15 EEST

KEYNOTE Dr. Julia Vassilieva. Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria’s collaboration and third culture debates. Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Julia Vassilieva

14:45 EEST

KEYNOTE by Dr Lauri Nummenmaa: Emotions, cinema and the Brain Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Lauri Nummenmaa

16:15 EEST

KEYNOTE by Dr. Asta Kärkkäinen, NOKIA: 3D audio in immersive movies Aalto Big Hall, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (1st floor)Asta Kärkkäinen

20:00 EEST

Get-together at Allas Sea Pool SAUNA Allas Sea Pool

09:30 EEST

LP Mehul Bhatt, Jakob Suchan and Omar Moussa. What can Artiﬁcial Intelligence do for Cognitive Media Studies? -- Integrated Analytical-Empirical Methods from the Viewpoint of Visuo-Auditory Cognition A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Mehul Bhatt • Omar Moussa • Jakob Suchan

11:30 EEST

SP Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen. Impossible Puzzle Films: ambiguous framings and framing ambiguities in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Steven Willemsen SP Brendan Rooney, Katalin Balint, Colin Burke, Sharon Chi Tak Lee, Caroline Mantei and Tess O'Leary: The effect of engagement-mode and character eye-gaze on viewers of a virtual reality ﬁlm. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Brendan Rooney SP Tico Romao. Embodiment, Cognitive Linguistics and Character Interiority: A Critique A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Tico Romao

13:00 EEST

LP Joerg Fingerhut and Katrin Heimann. Film and 4EA cognition. Movies as part of our artifactual mind A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Joerg Fingerhut

15:30 EEST

LP Chiao-I Tseng, Jochen Laubrock, Jessie Nixon and John Bateman. Constraining film narrative interpretation through combinations of cohesion in film and eye-tracking A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jochen Laubrock • Chiao-I Tseng

17:00 EEST

PP/DP Johanna Arens, Mehul Bhatt, Hubert Kloskowski, Vasiliki Kondyli, Sk Nahiduzzaman, Omar Moussa, Jakob Suchan, R ocio Varela, Abdur Rahman, Md Mamunuzzaman and Daniele Tatasciore. Embodied Cognitive Experiences... A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Johanna Arens • Omar Moussa PP/DP Marie-Laure Cazin. Cinema and neuroscience, the case of emotive cinema A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Marie-Laure Cazin

09:30 EEST

SPECIAL FILM EVENT "Woman with an Editing Bench" by Dr. Karen Pearlman A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Karen Pearlman

11:00 EEST

SP Moran Ovadia, Gal Raz and Talma Hendler. 2 Sisters - 2 Neuropsychological Constellations in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Moran Ovadia

13:00 EEST

LP Monika Suckfüll. The Effects of Information Gaps in Movies A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Monika Suckfüll LP Adriano D'Aloia and Ruggero Eugeni. What time is in? Subjective Perception of Time in the Audiovisual Experience A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Adriano D’Aloia • Ruggero Eugeni

14:30 EEST

SP Maria Poulaki. Transformative continuity A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Maria Poulaki

15:00 EEST

SP Kata Szita. Movies on Smartphones: The Physiological Effects of Screen Size, Physical Connection, and the Active Environment A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Kata Szita

16:00 EEST

SP Johannes Riis. The balancing of performer expressiveness against narrative objects of emotion A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Johannes Riis SP Stephen Hinde, Tim Smith and Katrin Heimann. Experimental psychology in cinema using mobile technologies. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Dr Stephen J. Hinde SP Jussi Tarvainen, Jorma Laaksonen and Tapio Takala. Film mood and its quantitative determinants in different types of scenes A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Jussi Tarvainen

16:30 EEST

LP Robert Blanchet. The misunderstanding of “understanding”: Empathizing with ﬁlm characters on the level of action and motivation A-301 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Robert Blanchet

09:30 EEST

LP Steffen Hven. Following Our Senses in the Dark: On Leviathan (2012) and the Embodied Fabula A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Steffen Hven

11:30 EEST

SP Ed Tan and Katalin Bálint. The phenomenology of characterisation. From social cognition of real persons to the construction of ﬁctional human-like ﬁgures in narrative. A-305 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Katalin Bálint • Ed Tan SP Gal Raz, Oﬁr Shany and Tal Gonen. We’re chained in action: A Neuroscientiﬁc Model of Motivational Empathy A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Gal Raz

13:00 EEST

LP Douglas MacArthur, Javid Sadr and Aaron Taylor. Accounting for Acting: Generating and Recognizing “Reality Effects” in Film Performance A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Aaron Taylor

14:00 EEST

SP Dan Leberg. Empathy On Set: An Ethnographic Study On How Canadian Actors Think Of/With/About The Camera A-306 Room, Töölö Campus, Aalto University (3rd floor)Dan Leberg