[csaa-forum] Invitation: Writers and Writing in the New Media Culture, Symposium 22nd Nov

[Maria Angel]

The Writing & Society Research Centre, UWS presents an interdisciplinary symposium



Writers & Writing in the new media culture

22 November 2011



at the NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre in Surry Hills (Meeting Room 2, 23-33 Mary St Surry Hills).



10am – 5.00pm Tuesday 22 November 2011



Speakers: Anna Gibbs, Mark Amerika & Jason Nelson



REMIX is a widespread practice of recombining existing material to make something new – including covers, sampling, mash-ups, smash-ups and cut-ups. Remix culture has been bedevilled by legal issues around copyright but these have diverted attention from important cultural, artistic, and philosophical questions which Mark Amerika addresses. Amerika brings us back to the potentials of remix, for writing and for audiovisual work. He looks at how new media artists, many of whom identify with the historical avant‑garde, are expanding the forms of remix art to foreground an anti-disciplinary [anti‑authoritarian + interdisciplinary] approach to both contemporary practice and theory. Amerika will discuss his experimental art, theory, and pedagogy, including his recent projects Immobilité and remixthebook.



Jason Nelson will also be running a media writing workshop that will allow participants to construct

digital poems using GoogleMaps on laptops and other hand-held media devices.



No registration charge. Lunch provided.

Guests must register attendance with Melinda Jewell m.jewell at uws.edu.au<mailto:m.jewell at uws.edu.au>



Dr Maria Angel
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797
AUSTRALIA

ph (02) 9852 5152
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