[ecrea] CFP: Not Another Brick in the Wall: Teaching and Researching the Audio Video Essay - A Two-Day Symposium: 19th and 20th November 2018, Monash University, Melbourne

*Not Another Brick in the Wall: Teaching and Researching the Audio Video 
Essay*

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*A Two-Day Symposium: 19^th **and 20^th November 2018, Monash 
University, Melbourne*

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*Brief Overview***

According to Vilém Flusser (2014), the “gesture of making” constitutes a 
kind of thinking with one’s hands; in this symposium our aim is to 
consider the effectiveness of the audio-visual essay for facilitating 
creative and intellectual enquiry in film, television, and media 
studies. The symposium will include:

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  * a screening of audio-video essays
  * hands-on interactive workshops on video essay best practice
  * papers and presentations
The symposium is aimed at teachers and researchers new to the video 
essay as well as those who already incorporate it into their teaching 
and research.

We invite teachers, academics, researchers, and public institutions, 
from across the discipline areas to attend one or both days.

You do not have to be presenting a paper to attend. We encourage 
participation of any kind – see registration details and call for papers 
below.

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*Call for Panels and Papers*

*Keynote Speakers: *Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López

*Panel Presentation:*Sean Redmond and Jo Tai, Deakin University: 
Assessing (with) The Video Essay: A Pilot Case Study

*Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: _ September 17^th   2018_*

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*The audio video essay*has become a central pillar in the way that film, 
television, and media scholars, in particular, publish their research 
since it allows scholars to:

Explore the ways in which digital technologies afford a new mode of 
carrying out and presenting film and moving image research. The full 
range of digital technologies now enables film and media scholars to 
write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study: 
moving images and sounds (Grant et al, 2014)

The audio video essay is also used increasingly in schools, colleges and 
universities, in the arts and humanities, as a rich and invigorating 
‘non-standard form’ of course assessment and mode of creative and 
intellectual enquiry. The reason for this development is fourfold: 
first, applied knowledge and understanding is seen to foster the best 
learning outcomes; second, assessment logo-centrism is seen to fail many 
students, particularly those with little cultural capital from low 
socio-economic backgrounds; third, in a highly mediated modern world, 
where screen presentations occur in all walks of life, the audio video 
essay is seen as an incredibly important transferable tool; and finally, 
it is born out of a recognition that learning and understanding is not a 
closed book and that the audio video essay fosters resourceful, open 
learning.

To date, however, there has been very little research on the use, value 
or impact of the audio video essay on learning and teaching. Research 
has been carried out on video production as an effective learning and 
assessment tool (see Elizabeth Mavroudi and Heike Jöns, 2011) but 
nothing that fully examines this particular form. Similarly, within 
education research there has not yet been a move to presenting research 
findings through this method.

/The Research questions that thus energise this symposium include:/

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/How might use of the audio video essay as a mode or tool of teaching 
improve students’ educational experience and learning outcomes?/

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/Does the audio video essay work as an empowering assessment item within 
the arts and humanities disciplines? /

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/How might it be taken up in STEM disciplines?/

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/Do students view it more favourably than written or examined forms of 
assessment?/

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/How might we best employ the audio video essay to represent our 
scholarship within education, and the disciplines we represent?/

The /Not Another brick in the Wall: Teaching and Researching the Audio 
Video Essay Symposium /invites critical and/or creative abstracts, 
including audio-video presentations, for individual 20-minute papers, or 
pre-constituted panels of 3 x 20-minute papers, on any topic or theme 
related to the deployment of the audio-video essay in learning and 
teaching, and in research.

This could include empirical research, the analysis of the audio-video 
essay in the classroom, and its use as a new form of research output.

*Registration fees will be set at _$75 per delegate_*

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*Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: _ September 17^th   2018_*

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*Individual Abstracts*: 250 words, plus a 50-word biography. /Please 
indicate if a postgraduate student/.

*Pre-constituted Panels*: 150-word overview, plus 3x 250-word abstracts, 
and 3x 50-word biography, plus name of lead contact.

Delegates will be notified of decisions by: *_October  1^st 2018_*

We will award a small bursary for the best PhD abstract submitted (also 
notified on October 1^st )

Please direct all abstracts and any enquiries to:

Catherine Fowler (catherine.fowler /at/ otago.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(catherine.fowler /at/ otago.ac.nz)>

Claire Perkins (claire.perkins /at/ monash.edu) <mailto:(claire.perkins /at/ monash.edu)>

Sean Redmond: (s.redmond /at/ deakin.edu.au) <mailto:(s.redmond /at/ deakin.edu.au)>

/On behalf of the organisation committee/

Catherine Fowler, Otago University

Claire Perkins, Monash University

Sean Redmond, Deakin University


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