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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is information on a symposium I am helping to run on media in Darwin NT this week. I know that most of you are not up here in the NT, but if you happen to have contacts here in the NT please share the information - thank you! It’s
entirely free and open to the public!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Creative Frontiers in Modern Media: Prospects and Challenges Darwin November 2-3 2017<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="hero"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">What is a creative frontier in relation to the myriad forms of modern media?
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Is it a conceptual battle-line that can lead to new ideas or is it a formal border that separates and reimagines genre; a shift in technology, culture and society or maybe an avant-garde gesture?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size16"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In Creative Frontiers in Modern Media: Prospects and Challenges, a diverse International team of journalists, filmmakers, poets, artists and arts scholars have been
invited to imagine what a creative frontier might mean in relation to either their disciplinary research or their creative practice.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size16"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Coming together in Darwin NT, they will present their latest research that is designed to provoke and to challenge understandings of art, aesthetics and connections
to mass media.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size16"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Warwick Mules (University of Queensland, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Darren Wershler (Concordia University, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jane Stadler (University of Queensland, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Gemma Blackwood (Charles Darwin University, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Tony Curry (Filmmaker, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Aurora Scheelings (Charles Darwin University, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Brendan McCourt (Filmmaker, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin, Northern Territory.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Schedule and information on speakers and presentations available at: <a href="http://creative-frontiers.cdu.edu.au/">http://creative-frontiers.cdu.edu.au/</a>
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November 2 – 3 | 10AM to 4PM | CAS Blue 5.1.01 | Web: <a href="http://creative-frontiers.cdu.edu.au/">
creative-frontiers.cdu.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Free and open to the public</b> | For inquiries and RSVP, please email: <a href="mailto:cahadmin@cdu.edu.au">
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Share this event on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1934536830119844/"> Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
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