[Commlist] cfp: MIX: Experiential Storytelling at Bath Spa University

      CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

After the success of the last four MIX conferences, MIX 2019 returns to 
the beautiful surroundings of Bath Spa University’s Corsham Court Campus 
in Wiltshire between 1st and 2nd July 2019. This year’s conference will 
be a more intimate, single strand version, curated for a smaller 
audience to give time and space to instigate conversations around 
digital writing with a focus on experiential storytelling, including 
immersive technologies and new forms of publishing, from transmedia and 
poetry film to virtual reality to AI in storytelling. Confirmed speakers 
include publisher, Maja Thomas 
<http://mixconference.org/programme/keynotes/#maja-thomas>, Chief 
Innovation Officer, Hachette Innovation Program; Thomas Zandegiocomo, 
Artistic Director Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin; and writer Nikesh 
Shukla <http://mixconference.org/programme/keynotes/#nikesh-shukla>.

Bath Spa University is the UK’s foremost provider of creative writing 
programmes at undergraduate, masters and PhD level and MIX is 
well-established as an innovative forum for the discussion and 
exploration of writing and technology. MIX has attracted an 
international cohort of contributors from the UK, Australia, and Europe 
as well as North and South America. MIX is situated within the 
international research centres, the Centre for Cultural and Creative 
Industries 
<https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/centre-for-cultural-and-creative-industries/>, 
in collaboration with the Centre for Media Research 
<https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/liberal-arts/research/centre-for-media-research/>, 
Creative Writing Research Centre 
<https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/liberal-arts/research/creative-writing-centre/>, 
and the online magazine of writing and technology, The Writing Platform 
<http://thewritingplatform.com/>.

A conference where creative writing and media creation intersect with 
and/or are dependent upon technology should be as interdisciplinary as 
possible, and that’s what we are aiming for with MIX 2019. The 
conference will host a vibrant mix of academic papers, practitioner 
presentations and keynotes.

Experiential storytelling encompasses works that foreground the 
experience of the audience or reader. Works that offer authentic and 
often personalised experiences are becoming increasingly prevalent and 
this year MIX offers opportunities to think about what that might mean 
for digitally-mediated narratives. Additional themes for this year’s 
conference include immersion and publishing; we define these themes 
broadly and are interested in how new forms of storytelling can respond 
to and learn from emerging works that explore the potential of immersive 
technologies. Our Ethics of Storytelling panel will be curated and 
chaired by writer Nikesh Shukla, and we’d like to encourage a broad 
range of responses on that theme. We are also interested in new models 
of publishing across Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, 
Ambient Literature, as well as the influence of the grammars of film and 
theatre on new forms of storytelling.

Within the single-strand programme there will be four themed panels. We 
would like to encourage the submission of research papers and 
artist/practitioner presentations on the following topics;

  * *Emerging forms of digitally-mediated narrative*, including projects
    that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithmic
    writing practices and locative-aware narratives.
  * *Poetry film*, including the future of poetry film, current
    developments in social media sharing, current developments in poetry
    film content and practice.
  * *Immersive technologies and narrative*, including Extended and Mixed
    Reality, VR, Augmented Reality, and Ambient Literature
  * *Ethics of Storytelling*, including accessibility and appropriation,
    but also issues around technology and ethics, i.e embodiment in VR,
    algorithmic bias in cultural works that use AI, etc.

We are interested in work that takes a wide variety of forms, including 
digital fiction, poetry film, text-based digital art, collaborations 
between writers and technologists, hybrid and cross-media practice, 
transmedia practice, as well as our on-going themes of the future of the 
book, new forms of publishing, convergent media cultures. We’ll also 
look for papers and presentations on ambient literature 
<https://ambientlit.com/>, including mobile, locative, pervasive and 
other site-specific forms.

Papers that deal with pedagogy specific to the panel themes are also 
welcome.

Alongside scholars and researchers, artists, creative writers and 
creative technologists are especially encouraged to submit proposals.

We are looking for proposals for 15 minute papers/ presentations or 60 
minute panels (composed of three 15 minute papers with time for q&a). 
Please submit 300 word abstracts for each paper/presentation you are 
proposing by Monday 4th February 2019.

Please include a 100 word biography (include biographies of all other 
speakers if you are proposing a panel).

When you submit, please select which one of the following topics your 
submission addresses;

Emerging forms of digitally-mediated narrative
Poetry film
Immersive technologies and narrative
Ethics of Storytelling

We will let you know whether your submission has been successful by the 
end of February 2019.

For queries on your conference submission, email (mix /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(mix /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>

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