Dear All,
Reminder that the call for Papers for the JMP
Symposium is closing on 15th January (full
details below) - we've already had a couple of
submissions and it's shaping up to be a very
interesting event. Please watch our blog
http://postdigi.wordpress.com for more
information on the programme and venue after the call closes in mid-January.
Looking forward to receiving your abstracts, and hopefully seeing you there.
Best wishes and happy Christmas,
Charlotte
Apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers: â??Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisationâ??
Journal of Media Practice Symposium, 24 June 2011
Hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Centre
and the Creative Media Research Group, University of the West of England
http://postdigi.wordpress.com/
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 January 2011
This one-day symposium seeks to explore how
digital technologies have redefined creativity
and media practice within the academy both in
terms of teaching and research. Whether or not
our research questions and/or curriculum deal
directly with the â??digitalâ??, those of us
involved in creative media practice are
inevitably working within a new media landscape
in which digital technologies disrupt our
received notions of media practice education and research.
Recent debates have challenged the idea that the
capacity for creative improvisation is exercised
by individuals against the conventions of
culture and society. Instead, the suggestion is
that improvisation and creativity are intrinsic
to the very processes of social and cultural
life (Hallam and Ingold 2007). At the same time
we are working within a milieu of digital
â??disruptionâ?? (Christensen, 1997) in which
rapid developments in the â??technologies,
economic organization, and social practices of
productionâ?? have created â??new opportunities
for how we make and exchange information,
knowledge, and cultureâ?? (Benkler, 2006).
The 2011 Journal of Media Practice symposium
wishes to explore the implications of these
developments across the field of Media Practice,
and to consider the changing context within
which we find ourselves teaching and creating
media. How are the traditional binaries between
different ways of working and different contexts
relevant to the contemporary media landscape? In
a landscape where â??new formulations of
knowledge afforded by the web are breaking down
the distinctions between the university and the
â??real Worldâ??â?? (Dovey and Lister, 2009),
how does media practice sit within the academy
in this â??postdigitalâ?? age (Pepperell and
Punt, 2000)? What is now the role of media
practice research in the ecosystems of the â??creative economyâ???
Possible areas to consider:
â?¢ Pervasive media, mixed reality and the proliferation of screens
â?¢ Transmedia storytelling in a multiplatform world
â?¢ Adding value to media assets through metadata tagging
â?¢ Locative media, context aware platforms
and new forms of â??experience designâ??
â?¢ Digital natives and digital immigrants
â?? teaching, learning and making
â?¢ Co-collaboration, participatory practices and new forms of authorship
â?¢ Accessibility, social inclusion and the Internet.
â?¢ Digital distribution as a tool for
creating REF â??Impactâ?? for media practice research
Abstracts of 250 words are invited for 20-minute
papers and/or presentations of practice on any
aspect of this theme. We also invite pre-formed
90-minute panels (3 x 20-minute papers, plus
questions), and one-hour practical workshops on
any aspect of digital media practice, stating clearly any AV requirements.
Abstracts should be sent by email attachment to
Charlotte Crofts at
mailto:(charlotte.crofts /at/ uwe.ac.uk), with the
subject line â??JMP Symposiumâ??, by the 15
January 2011. Please save your file as
YOURNAME_JMP Abstract.doc and include your name
and contact details at the bottom of the abstract.
Papers will be considered for a themed edition
of JMP edited by Judith Aston and practice
research work will be considered for an edition
of ScreenWork edited by Charlotte Crofts
(further details to be announced at the symposium).
