Intercultural Intersections of Film, Multimedia and Improvisation
andrew.m...@gmail.com
Dear members of the SMT Improvisation IG,
Please consider a proposal for the call below (due February 9) and share with colleagues you think might be interested. In short: three IGs (including ourselves) are collaborating to propose a panel at SMT; if nothing else, we'll have a fruitful and interdisciplinary joint IG meeting. This panel proposal is the reason the deadline below is so soon: I hope you'll forgive that.
Andrew
Intercultural Intersections of Film, Multimedia, and Improvisation
2026 SMT Annual Meeting, Milwaukee
Collaborative Interest Group Session
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Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries (GIMP) Interest Group (Host)
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Film and Multimedia Interest Group
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Improvisation Interest Group
We invite responses to a call for lightning talks/short presentations of 5 to 10 minutes that cover at least one of two categories: (1) intercultural music and improvisation, and/or (2) intercultural music and film/multimedia.
We welcome any topics under the broad categories above, but also offer the following subthemes/themes to consider applying under:
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The analysis of video recordings of intercultural improvised performance in terms of gesture, texture, embodiment, or other criteria
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Collective improvisation within intercultural ensembles, venues, or frameworks
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Cultural integration (of two or more cultures) and/or representation in film/animation/video games.
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Musical models or parameters of interculturalism and/or improvisation in film/animation/video game music.
Please note that the reviewers (IG chairs) will endeavor to include a broad scope of geographies and traditions in the selected papers for the program.
The collaborating IG chairs will include selected proposals in a 90-minute alternative format session submitted to the Annual Meeting CFP (due February 16). If the program committee does not select the 90-minute alternative format session, the selected proposals will be included in the 90-minute GIMP IG session at the 2026 meeting.
Proposals of 250 to 350 words should be submitted to aaron.ca...@morehouse.edu and chng...@uncg.edu (both emails to ensure receipt).
Deadline: Monday, February 9, 11:59 PM EST
Notification: Friday, February 13
If you have any questions, please reach out to one of the IG Chairs:
Desirée Mayr (GIMP Co-Chair) djm...@gmail.com
Aaron Carter-Ényì (GIMP Co-Chair) aaron.ca...@morehouse.edu
Andrew Malilay White (Improv IG Co-Chair) andrew...@austincc.edu
Yiyi Gao (Improv IG Co-chair) Louisag...@gmail.com