[ecrea] MIX 2017: revolutions, regenerations, reflections

*MIX 2017:
REVOLUTIONS, REGENERATIONS, REFLECTIONS

BATH SPA UNIVERSITY, NEWTON PARK CAMPUS. 10-12 JULY 2017*

www.mixconference.org <http://www.mixconference.org/>

*FULL PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE*

After the success of the last three MIX conferences, MIX 2017 returns to 
Bath Spa University’s Newton Park Campus. MIX is well-established as an 
innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and 
technology, and has attracted an international cohort of contributors 
from the UK, Australia and Europe as well as North and South America. 
MIX is now situated within the recently created international Research 
Centres at Bath Spa University - Making Books: Creativity, Print Culture 
and the Digital 
<https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/liberal-arts/research/making-books/>, and the 
Media Convergence Research Centre 
<https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/liberal-arts/research/media-convergence-research-centre/>.

After more than two decades of innovation and experimentation, the 
relationship between reading, writing, form, content and delivery 
platform remains in flux. The e-book has taken its place alongside the 
print book and the multimedia story app and/or website have become 
familiar modes for reading and viewing. Developers are creating dramatic 
story and character-led narratives via independent games while 
interactive and immersive theatre-makers are finding new ways to engage 
audiences well beyond traditional theatre spaces. Television 
storytelling conventions continue to evolve in line with the dominance 
of streaming services; new reading habits and engagement strategies now 
surround the form of digital comics. Spoken word continues to thrive at 
the same time as poetry film is gaining wider recognition. Virtual 
reality and augmented reality are both making in-roads into documentary 
and fiction. Literary forms are morphing and changing in response to the 
affordances of the smartphone and tablet; pervasive and locative media 
are shaping how literature is understood and read. Digital media 
technologies foster creative ways of telling stories across multiple 
platforms. In short, new media hasn’t been ‘new’ for quite some time and 
the word ‘digital’ is now rapidly becoming redundant as technology 
becomes more deeply enmeshed within our cities, our homes, our lives.

In this context, a conference that looks at where creative writing, 
storytelling and media creation intersects with and/or is dependent upon 
technology should be as interdisciplinary as possible, and that’s what 
we are aiming for with MIX 2017. The conference will host a vibrant mix 
of academic papers, practitioner presentations, seminars, keynotes, 
discussions and workshops.

*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*

  * Prof Jon Dovey

<http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus%5Cj-dovey>,
    University of the West of England: 'Seven Types Of Digital Ambiguity'
  * Dr Elizabeth Evans

<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/departments/cfm/people/elizabeth.evans>,
    University of Nottingham: 'Engagement That’s Worth It: Transmedia
    Engagement as Economic and Discursive Commodity'
  * Anna Gerber and Britt Iverson, Visual Editions
    <http://visual-editions.com/about>/Editions at Play: 'Google
    Creative Labs: Experiments in Digital Books'
  * Prof Caitlin Fisher <http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/home/>, York
    University Augmented Reality Lab: 'Mixed Realities: Poetry at the
    Edge of Science'

The themes for this year’s conference are *revolutions, regenerations 
and reflections*. Panels will explore questions of digital narratives 
and the classroom, audience and narrative, audience agency, innovative 
approaches to writing, transmedia engagement, poetics and technology, 
playable narratives, media across cultures, collaboration and re-mixing, 
amongst many others. A series of interactive workshop sessions will be 
offered on aspects of digital making, transmedia practice, interactive 
narratives, ambient literature and other related topics. The AHRC-funded 
research project, Ambient Literature, will be launched at MIX 2017. 
NAWE, the National Association of Writer in Education, will be joining 
BSU to curate the pedagogical strand of the conference. Poetry film 
screenings will also be shown continuously throughout the conference in 
the University's Viewing Theatre.

The full programme for the conference is available here: 
http://mixconference.org/programme/

The conference will also host the launch of the special issue of 
/Convergence: The International Journal of New Media Technologies/: 
‘Writing Digital: Practice, Performance, Theory’. This special issue 
arose from themes developed for MIX 2015. A new Call for Papers for an 
open access peer-reviewed journal issue will be launched at MIX 2017.

*CONFERENCE PRICING*

MIX 2017 Standard        £200
MIX 2017 Concession    £100

*BOOKING*

For information about booking into the conference and accommodation, 
please go to the conference website at www.mixconference.org 
<http://www.mixconference.org/>.

MIX Conference Committee: Co-Directors Kate Pullinger and Lucy English, 
Executive Producer Bambo Soyinka, Exhibition and MediaWall Producer 
Anthony Head, Event Producer Gavin Bower, Comms Producer Steve Hollyman, 
Workshop Producer Matthew Freeman, Admin Coordinator Abbi Cross.


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