[csaa-forum] CFP: Critical Animals--Postgraduates Working in the New Medias

[Kirsty Leishman]

CALL FOR PAPERS: CRITICAL ANIMALS - postgraduates
working in the new medias.

CRITICAL ANIMALS - an interdisciplinary conference for
postgraduate students 
working critically in the areas of culture, art and
communications - would 
like to hear from postgraduate students interested in
delivering a paper at 
the conference to be held on Thursday 30th September
and Friday 1st of 
October 2004 in Newcastle, NSW.

CRITICAL ANIMALS is part of the This Is Not Art
festival, the largest 
gathering of young media makers and artists in
Australia. CRITICAL ANIMALS 
is a unique opportunity for postgraduate students to
present their work to a 
diverse, knowledgable and active audience.

Suggested topics include:
- screen and networked cultures
- reading new (and not so) publishing technologies and
practices
- games and theory
- reading subcultural texts; including stencils,
zines, comics and stickers
- new readings of fancultures
- sound and music practices
- public space interventions and protest cultures
- methodological conundrums and ellipses

Papers will be considered for publication in a special
issue of the New 
Media Poetics journal,
www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/poetics.

The conference format is 30 minute paper, followed by
45 minutes chaired 
discussion. Suggestions for panel discussions are
welcome.

200 word abstracts. 
DEADLINE: Thursday July 1st 2004.

Email: anna.poletti at studentmail.newcastle.edu.au
Enquiries welcome.


 
 



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