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Conference “‘Gaslight’ Narratives in Virtual Landscapes

On 15th and 16th of September RISEBA University of Applied Sciences is organizing international scientific Conference “‘Gaslight’ Narratives in Virtual Landscapes: Narratological Implications of Technologically Mediated and Immersive Media”.

The ultimate aim of the conference is to extend the boundaries of narratological discourse, within the framework of the technological diversification of virtual reality.


Conference will address the fusion of new technologies with unreliable, paradoxical, or disturbing narratives, which draw readers and viewers into a story, by means of blurring the boundaries between real and virtual spaces or alternative ones.
Conference will discuss the narrative and technological devices and strategies that undermine logic and reason with the effects of surprise, confusion, self-doubt or disappointment emerging subconsciously out of such transmedial and perturbatory narratives.
Conference will aim at a set of suggestions for future exploration in the emerging vectors of narratology warning against the unchecked dominance of ‘gaslight’ narratives in all forms of media shaping the global political and social climate so as to corrupt the world as we know it, with or without the aid of a virtual apparatus.
“‘Gaslight’ Narratives in Virtual Landscapes: Narratological Implications of Technologically Mediated and Immersive Media” is the 6th Conference organized in cooperation with European Narratology Network (ENN, www.narratology.net).
Informational supporter of the Conference is news portal TVNET.

The following leading experts, keynote speakers will participate in the conference:
Dr. Hartmut Koenitz
Currently author of the upcoming book “Understanding Interactive Digital Narratives”, he is the author of more than 50 academic publications and the president of Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives.

Dr. Ellen Pearlman,
Researcher, media artist, critic, curator, writer. She has also created the world's first interactive brainwave opera at the
 60-degree “Noor: A Brain Opera”.

Tobin Asher
Tobin is a creator, director, writer and composer of virtual reality content. Since 2016, he has been running virtual reality products and projects at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Together with the team, Asher explores the psychological and
behavioral effects of virtual reality and augmented reality.

This will be Virtual Online Conference on interactive and innovative virtual platform – Spatial Chat.
The Conference will be held in English; the attendance is free of charge.
More information about the conference: https://enn6.riseba.lv/
The programme of the conference: https://www.riseba.lv/sites/default/files/inlinefiles/ ENN6-Conference_programme_8.pdf

Term Gaslighting (according to Wikipedia) is a colloquialism that is loosely defined as making someone question their reality.
The term is also used informally to describe someone (a "gaslighter") who persistently puts forth a false narrative which leads another person (or a group of people) to doubt their own perceptions to the extent that they become disoriented and distressed. This dynamic is generally only possible when the audience is vulnerable such as in unequal power relationships or when the audience is fearful of the losses associated with challenging the false narrative. Gaslighting is not necessarily malicious or intentional, although in some cases it is.
Term Narrative (according to Wikipedia) - a narrative, story or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, still or moving images, or any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled). Along with argumentation, description, and exposition, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to the reader.

The text was prepared by: University of Business Arts and Technologies “RISEBA” Marketing and Communications Department, E: pr@riseba.lv, T: +371 25619293

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