[eccr] Fwd: Multimedia Histories Conference - 21-23 July 2003

>MULTIMEDIA HISTORIES CONFERENCE
>
>University of Exeter, 21-23 July 2003
>
>Organised by AHRB Centre for British Film and Television
>Studies and University of Exeter.
>
>         www.bftv.ac.uk
>
>
>One of the most dominant critical concerns of recent years
>has been the attempt to understand the impact of a
>multimedia culture. The scope and limits of a multimedia
>culture have become associated with issues of virtual
>reality; interactivity; media convergence and hybridity;
>body/technology couplings, etc. These familiar narratives,
>however, have a much more extended history than is often
>realised.
>
>Multimedia Histories will examine the long genealogy of
>multimedia usage and discourse. From the 19th C onwards,
>the proliferation of screen technologies and optical
>recreations has been an important element of popular
>culture. Moreover, the exhibition and consumption of these
>entertainments was often defined by their
>interrelationship. The mid nineteenth-century drawing room,
>for example, typically included stereoscopes and
>praxinoscopes alongside the magic lantern.
>
>The conference is keen to pursue a comparative approach by
>focusing on specific historical moments of convergence and
>hybridity. In so doing, it aims to locate the aesthetics of
>the new media in relation to an intermedial tradition of
>public and domestic forms of screen entertainment. The
>principal question it hopes to address is this - to what
>extent do recent multimedia technologies extend established
>features of cinema, television, and the panoply 19th C and
>20th C optical recreations?
>
>Further details are available at the AHRB Centre's
>website:
>
>         www.bftv.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
>----------------------
>Ann Jones
>Administrator
>AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies
>
>020 7631 6137
>(ann.jones /at/ bbk.ac.uk)

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels
Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication (SMIT)
Centre for Media Sociology (CeMeSO)
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