[ecrea] September conference: "In anticipation of ..."

> ?In anticipation of??: Mediating texts, and texts in waiting
>  5-6 September 2008
>  University of the Arts London, London College of Communication
> Keynote speakers
> Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial 
> Professor in Communication and Professor of 
> Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin,
> Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television 
> Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
>
> Since the late 1960s a philosophical wisdom has 
> prevailed that insists that texts be understood 
> as open sign carriers where meanings and values 
> are written into them on the individual impulses 
> of the reader. But in the desire to make sense 
> of the text for oneself, it is often overlooked 
> that our cultural consumption is not usually an 
> arbitrary business. Rather, our encounters with 
> texts come with certain expectations that are 
> shaped historically, culturally and through 
> industrial influences. In current times, modern 
> media systems, which spawn myriad promotional 
> and critical materials, have taken up an 
> increasingly discursive role as dialogic 
> go-betweens in the interaction between texts and 
> their public. Yet the significance of such 
> ephemera - reviews, fanzines, web-sources, 
> posters, trailers, printed advertisements, 
> commercials and other forms of publicity and 
> criticism - has often been overlooked in reflections on the interpretive act.
>
> ?In anticipation of?? takes the form of an 
> international, inter-disciplinary forum falling 
> under the umbrella themes of marketing, 
> publicity, criticism, aesthetic value and 
> experience. The conference brings together a 
> dynamic range of discussions on topics in the 
> field of visual culture that address the 
> expectations and experiences at play in the 
> interaction between the general public, the 
> community, the fan, the connoisseur and the texts themselves.
>
>
> Cost: £90 Student: £75
> Booking at: www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/courses/43557.htm
> General enquires to Tony Todd: (t.todd /at/ lcc.arts.ac.uk)

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