[csaa-forum] Invitation to Melbourne Writers' Festival roundtable: trope ­promoting new writing in Second Life

[Cristyn Davies]

Dear colleagues,

Please send this message through to your Melbourne networks. 

Writers and their works in a virtual space: trope-promoting new writing in Second Life

trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The panel features trope's creators alongside the Melbourne-based writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the dynamics of this intersection between literature and new media and the poetic possibilities of virtual spaces.  

This panel is sponsored by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Chair: Bel Schenk
Participants: Cristyn Davies, Elena Knox, Sarah Waterson, Matt Hetherington and Alicia Sometimes.
 
Trope Team
Editor and co-curator of trope texts: Cristyn Davies
Conceptual approach, design and implementation: Sarah Waterson
Co-curator of trope texts, sonic topography, conceptual design: Elena Knox  

www.trope.net.au 

With implementation support from The Project Factory.

When
Thursday, 28th August 2008
7.00-9.00 pm

Where
ACMI Cinema 1
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Victoria, Australia

trope has received support from: 
the Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts
The School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney 
The Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy research node, University of Western Sydney

Cristyn Davies
Justice of the Peace for NSW
Researcher
Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy research node 
University of Western Sydney-
Bankstown campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC
NSW 1797
AUSTRALIA 
Ph. 61 2 9772 6784 
Fax. 61 2 9772 6738 
Email: c.m.davies at uws.edu.au 




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