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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Research Conference</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Loops and Splices: Changing Media Technologies</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">1 August 2014</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Victoria University of Wellington Kelburn Campus</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck
College, University of London)</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">The Film and Media Studies Programmes and Visual
Culture Group at Victoria University of Wellington and the Media Studies
Programme at Massey University invite submissions for the <i style>Loops and Splices</i> conference.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Film and Media technologies are often assumed to
operate within teleological frameworks whereby progress, growth and efficiency
are defining factors. In order to interrogate these assumptions, this
conference will take into account a recent turn in media scholarship towards
uncovering the overlooked and under-examined media technologies that contribute
to historical and contemporary practice. This conference will explore how
different media technologies have functioned in relation to historical and
social practices, aesthetic traditions and specific cultural moments.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Topics to consider may include but are not
limited to:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">The long history of film and
media/media archaeologies </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Under-examined and latent
histories of media technologies </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Film and media’s under-examined
intersections with other technologies of visual culture</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span style></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span style><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">Technologies of
production, distribution and exhibition.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Circular histories,
counter-teleologies of contemporary and historical media </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Film and media aesthetics and
their relationship to technology</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Technology and the aesthetics of
ephemeral or fugitive forms</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Tactile media technologies and
phenomenological effects</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Technology and its
representational histories</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Relationships between analogue and
digital technologies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">The impacts of changing film and
media technologies on labour </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:10pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Experimental and
non-commercial media technologies</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Organizing Committee: Alex Bevan, Kathleen
Kuehn, Michelle Menzies, Radha O’Meara, Miriam Ross, Kirsten Moana Thompson</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Paper proposals (250 words + brief bio) should
be submitted by 10 June 2014 to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><a href="mailto:Kathleen.Kuehn@vuw.ac.nz"><span style="color:blue">Kathleen.Kuehn@vuw.ac.nz</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">If you wish to attend, but not present, please
notify the Symposium Organizing Committee at the above mentioned email address.
Attendance is free, but registration is requested.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Keynote speaker: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University
of London)</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Ian Christie is a historian of culture and
media, author and editor of monographs on Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam. He is a fellow of the British
Academy, Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, Head of London
Screen Study Collection and Vice-President of Europa Cinemas. His latest
publication is <i>Audiences </i>(2012). See </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://www.ianchristie.org/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.ianchristie.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<br clear="all"><div><div><br>-- <br><a href="http://vuw.academia.edu/MiriamRoss" target="_blank">http://vuw.academia.edu/MiriamRoss</a><br>
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