[csaa-forum] 4th Annual Intersections and Intersections Conference (UWS)

[Ned Rossiter]

4th Annual Intersections and Intersections Conference
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
19-20 June, 2012

Venue: Building BB, Werrington South (Penrith Campus)

Full program details: http://www.uws.edu.au/postgradconf
(Attendance is free but please register by 14 June)

The School of Humanities and Communication Arts (UWS) presents ‘Interventions and Intersections’, a two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference for School-based Honours and Higher Degree Research (HDR) candidates.

Designed to bring research students together from across the various disciplines of the School, the conference will offer an opportunity to present research in a friendly and supportive environment while giving students the chance to gain valuable feedback from academic staff and peers. Recognising that scholarship is largely a ‘conversation of ideas’, the event seeks to foster a collegial environment of scholarly exchange in order to enhance students’ research experiences.

Participation in the conference is open to all and is an important feature of research training offered by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts.

Keynote Speakers
19 June

Assistant Professor Ulises A. Mejías

'Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring'

While the tendency in the West to refer to the Arab Spring movements as ‘Twitter Revolutions’ has passed, a liberal discourse of ‘liberation technology’ (information and communication technologies that empower social movements) continues to influence our ideas about networked participation. Unfortunately, this utopian discourse tends to circumvent any discussion of the capitalist market structure in which these tools operate. Dr Mejías suggests that liberation technologies may in fact increase opportunities for political engagement, but that they simultaneously create certain kinds of inequalities. To counter these inequalities, he proposes a theoretical framework for locating alternative practices of identity formation and participation.

Ulises A. Mejías is director of the Integrated Media graduate program and Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. His book on Digital Networks is scheduled for publication in Fall of 2012 by the University of Minnesota Press.


Lisa Matthews, Director, Australia on Trial (2012)

'The Challenges, Constraints and Unexpected Joys in Making History Entertaining for Television'

In using examples of my work, I  will discuss the intellectual and practical concerns in realising history to the screen from the research through scripting, production and post production.  In adapting material there are many creative dilemmas - what to include/exclude, who’s point of view to tell the story and most importantly the delicate dance between the entertainment value of the story and the allegiance to its factual basis. I will screen excerpts from OUTRAGE AT MOUNT RENNIE from the recently broadcast Australia on Trial series on ABC Television in April, Darwin's Brave New World, Rogue Nation (Episode Two) and Rosie's Secret.

Lisa Matthews has worked in the film and television industry in Australia and Britain for twenty five years. Her passion is unearthing untold stories from Australia’s past. She has produced, written and directed several award winning short films, dramas and documentaries including Rosie’s Secret, The Shadow of Mary Poppins, In Search of Bony, Art House, Ten Pound Poms, Rogue Nation, Darwin’s Brave New World and most recently the Australia on Trial series. Her films have screened in local and international festivals and broadcasters include ABC and SBS Television, Channel Nine and THE COMEDY Channel in Australia; RTE Ireland, BBC and BBC2 London, ARTSWORLD UK, CBC Canada and AVRO The Netherlands.

Lisa is currently writing two feature film scripts and commences production at the end of the year for a television series Daughters of the Dragon to be filmed in China.


20 June

Dr Ros Bandt

'Acoustic Spaces: Site Specific Approaches in Recent Sounding Artworks, Medusa Dreaming, Blue Gold, Tracings'

Every Place is an acoustic space. How do we design work which brings the auditory sense to a new experience? What are the intersections and interactions between people, spaces and ideas? Ros will answer these questions with reference to three large recent works she has been creating, touring and recording in Australia, Greece, Turkey, Germany and Japan at a point where they are all being published on CD. How much can we really capture?

Ros Bandt is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS), University of Melbourne. Since 1977 she has pioneered ‘sounding’ unusual acoustic sites, audience interactive installations, spatial music, sound sculptures, sound playgrounds, free music systems and curated large scale dynamic collaborative events. Her numerous books and writings on sound are well known. She founded the award winning web-based online gallery and data base the Australian Sound Design Project. www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au

Associate Professor Colin Harvey

'Transmedia Memory Flows'

Though exact definitions of the term remain contentious, ‘transmedia storytelling’ is generally agreed to refer to processes of connected narrative-making across multiple media forms. Such forms might include novels, films, video games, comic books, websites, and varieties of User-Driven Content. Central to transmedia storytelling is the role of memory, the processes by which other elements of the storyworld are either recalled with fidelity, forgotten or deliberately misremembered. In this paper I will utilise Manuel de Landa’s philosophy alongside insights from the field of memory studies to identify transmedia memory flows in relation to my own professional work as a video game story designer and licensed fiction writer.

Dr Colin B Harvey is a British writer and academic specialising in memory, fantasy and transmedia storytelling. He has worked as a freelance video game story designer for Sony and written licensed tie-in fiction for the Doctor Who and Highlander ranges. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.


Please contact Sally Macarthur <s.macarthur at uws.edu.au<mailto:s.macarthur at uws.edu.au>> (Communication Arts) or David Walton <d.walton at uws.edu.au<mailto:d.walton at uws.edu.au>>  (Humanities) for more information.

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Ned Rossiter
Professor of Communication
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
Sth Werrington Campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia
+ 61 2 9852 5196 (tel)
+ 61 2 9852 5424 (fax)
n.rossiter at uws.edu.au<mailto:n.rossiter at uws.edu.au>
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