[Commlist] Technology and Tradition Academic Conference

Technology and Tradition: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 5th June 2021
Hosted by Futureworks, Manchester UK. Panels to be held on Zoom.
Panels to be held on Zoom. Attendance is free. Please email 
(joe.darlington /at/ futureworks.ac.uk) to register.

Academics, and media scholars in particular, are drawn to the new, the 
different, and the changing. Our emphasis always seems to be on what is 
cutting-edge, on radical breaks from the past. Far less attention is 
given to the continuities. And yet, as most practitioners will tell you 
– be they writers, musicians, animators, artists or filmmakers – it is 
continuity of practice that grounds most of our artistic mediums. 
Traditional methods of approach, the rudiments, the foundations; these 
staples of creative media production are, we contend, often taken for 
granted and overlooked in our academic search for new developments. This 
conference aims to bring together researchers from media, music and 
sound, video games, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, 
literature, politics, art and aesthetics, to interrogate the role of 
tradition in digital media and technology more broadly.

There will be four panels:
•	TECHNOLOGISING TRADITION
•	TECHNOLOGY AND OBSOLESCENCE
•	TECHNOLOGY AND SONIC TRADITION
•	TRADITION AND INTERFACE

Attendance is free.

Panels to be held on Zoom. Please email (joe.darlington /at/ futureworks.ac.uk) 
to register.



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