Practice Section Update
April 2008
Contents
1. New Practice Section C’ttee
2. Free Copies of Journal of Media Practice
3. Report on the Moving Image Archiving & the Academy Symposium, Leeds
4. JMP Symposium, Leeds
5. Screenwork
6. Media Education Summit - Bournmouth
1. New MeCCSA Practice Section Committee
A working committee for the Practice Section has been set up comprising of
the following members:
Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England)
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Inga Burrows (University of Glamorgan) [log in to unmask]
Jill Daniels (University of East London) [log in to unmask]
Roy Hanney (University of Chicester) [log in to unmask]
Trevor Hearing (Bournemouth University) [log in to unmask]
Sarah Jeans (London College of Communication) [log in to unmask]
Paul Kerr (London Metropolitan University) [log in to unmask] – also on
the MeCCSA Executive C’ttee
Andy Price (University of Teeside) [log in to unmask]
Marta Rabikowska (University of East London) [log in to unmask]
Laura Sims (Bucks New University) [log in to unmask]
2. Free Copies of the Journal of Media Practice
Attention MeCCSA Members Teaching Practice or involved in Practice
Research.
At present, under the agreement MeCCSA has with Intellect Books, the lead
named member of any institution, which formerly belonged to AMPE, receives
a free copy of the Journal of Media Practice. Hopefully all of you in this
category are receiving a copy; if not, please let us know. We have another
39 copies available for distribution. So could you let us know if you would
like one of these copies and a) you teach practice at an institution which
is a member of MeCCSA, but was not part of AMPE or b) you are not the lead
named member, but are on the list (which can be checked on the MeCCSA
website). You need to send us your institution’s mail address. First come,
first served, so please email [log in to unmask] with “JMP Free Copies” in
the subject line as soon as possible.
To join MeCCSA please go to http://www.meccsa.org.uk/join/index.html
Susanna Capon
(Head of Media Arts Department, Royal Holloway)
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3. REPORT: Moving Image Archiving and the Academy Symposium
MeCCSA Practice Section’s latest supported event was Moving Image Archiving
and the Academy, a one-day conference at the University of Leeds on March
15th. Organised by the Louis Le Prince Centre at the University’s
Institute of Communications, it was supported by both MeCCSA Practice
Section and the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).
A very successful event, well attended and with important contributions
from a variety of speakers on topics including legal deposit in France,
curating documentary histories and the potential for making publications
and documents available online. The two keynotes by Professors Emeriti
Nicholas Pronay and Charles Barr stimulated interesting discussion,
particularly around a call for a new kind of audio-visual archive (Pronay)
and the continuing need for Universities to collect and use appropriately
AV material (Barr). A report is currently being prepared and will be made
available online.
Delegates enjoyed the event (‘bloody brilliant’ is one direct quote), and
talks are now underway about another conference on how archive material is
used in teaching. Media archives and archive material is now firmly on the
conference agenda.
Ian W. Macdonald
(University of Leeds)
16/04/08
4. Journal of Media Practice 4th Annual Symposium – call for papers extended
Supported by the MeCCSA Practice Section
Call for Presentations and Papers
Media Practice and its field: The relationship with professional practice,
teaching and research
University of Leeds
Friday, 20th June 2008
The fourth JMP symposium will be convened at the University of Leeds
Institute of Communications on Friday 20th June 2008. The theme is our
context – how we interact with our field. This is about how we teach media
practice, how researchers and educators relate to professional and
conventional practice (and vice versa), and how our research by and through
practice relates to other research methods and activity in the same field.
A particular focus this year will be on postgraduate work, such as on media
practice in research awards or on training for teaching media practice.
Proposals for creative presentations, screenworks or extracts, posters,
handouts, performances, talks or traditional papers – anything that relates
to media practice as an academic subject – are welcome. There will be
opportunity for additional screenings or audio presentations as
appropriate. As previously, extracts and proceedings will be published and
participants invited to submit to both the JMP and ScreenWorks. The
organisers would like to receive proposals of up to 500 words plus other
artefacts or information as relevant, by Tuesday 6th May 2008.
Enquiries (including about available space and technical resources) and
proposals to:
Ian W. Macdonald
Louis Le Prince Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television
Institute of Communication Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
(+44) 113 343 5816
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5. ScreenWork
The next addition of ScreenWork will comprise entries from the AVPhD
Network. For further information please contact Jon Dovey
([log in to unmask]) or Tony Dowmunt ([log in to unmask]) and look
out for further announcements on the
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/drama/screenwork/ and http://avphd.ac.uk/ websites.
6. Media Education Summit - Bournemouth, 12 September 2008
Hosted by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice the summit will
address policy, philosophy and pedagogy in media education. See
http://www.cemp.ac.uk/summit/ for further details.
Many thanks,
Charlotte Crofts
Chair of the Practice Section
(University of the West of England)
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