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Dear Colleagues
please find below a call for this symposium. Please circulate to interested
parties.
many thanks Lizzie Thynne
Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Monday 13 July 2009, Sussex University.
Call for presentations
This year the symposium will focus on the theme of 'Mediated Memories' and
will include a strand on the uses and construction of memory in
contemporary media practice. Presentations are also invited on any other
aspect of media practice research and teaching and from people working
across disciplines who are using digital media.
Delegates wishing to discuss their practice-based research are welcome to
present work in progress as well as completed projects.
Topics for consideration could include, but are not restricted to:
" the use and creation of archives
" oral histories
" family memories
" cultural memory and narrative
" cultural memory and documentary practice
" forgetfulness in the age of information
" dementia
" home movies past and present
" the uses of nostalgia
" reminiscence
" computer memory
" memory and identity
" amnesia and the unconscious
We would be particularly interested in receiving proposals from groups of
collaborators on projects involving creative practice.
Please provide an abstract of not more than 250 words outlining the main
points of your presentation. Successful submissions will be allocated a 30
minute slot in the conference programme (20 minutes plus 10 for questions).
The deadline for submissions is Monday 20th April. Please send to Lizzie
Thynne, [log in to unmask], including your name, email address and any
affiliation on your abstract.
The conference fee will be £60 waged, £15 concessions.
Delegates may also wish to attend 'Biodigital Lives: making, consuming and
archiving the lives of technoscience' on Tuesday July 14th at Sussex, see
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-2-5.html.
Lizzie Thynne
Senior Lecturer
Department of Media and Film
Arts B, University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1273 872627
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