Crossover Deadline Approaching

 

Crossover Australia 2007 will bring together approximately 28 accomplished and innovative filmmakers and new media producers including invited international guest mentors as well as representatives from broadcasters and funding agencies. It will be a truly participatory retreat designed to explore the possibilities of interactivity within the context of broader bandwidth and the main ‘focus’ will be brainstorming and collaborative thinking across the different media sectors.

Independent filmmakers and new media producers will not pay fees to participate. Crossover Australia 2007 will cover accommodation and meals during the event. We do ask participants to cover their own travel costs between Crossover Australia and their home cities and recommend successful applicants approach their state film and/or arts funding bodies for assistance with travel funds.

The Lab Director is Frank Boyd, who has this impressive CV:

Frank has worked on a series of innovative programmes to support creative, social and economic development in the UK’s new media sector since founding the Arts Technology Centre (Artec) in 1989.

He established the European Multimedia Labs, the Digital Media Alliance and BAFTA’s Interactive Entertainment Awards before joining the BBC Innovation and Learning team as Director of Creative Development in 2000.

He is currently working with Creative London on a series of initiatives to encourage growth in London digital media industries including the London Games Festival and a new A/V market, Rights Lab.

He designed the 2005/2006 BBC Innovation Labs programme and is leading the mentoring teams in this pilot series.

He’s also designing and consulting on creative workshops for Sagasnet, working with the Waag Society in Amsterdam to help set up a new professional development project and incubator called the Mediaguild, and directing the InSync programme at zero-one in Soho.

Applications due 5pm Monday 16th October. Apply Now!

I don’t know how much of it will be cross-media oriented, but I’m sure Frank will put together a good collection of mentors.

 

CFP: Convergence and Integration

 

Expanding the Definition of Convergence and Integration Call for Papers
A research colloquium at Texas Tech University April 19 & 20, 2007

Papers invited include research proposals or completed research that addresses any of the following:
The interaction of multiple media
The use of media among or directed to Hispanics or other ethnic groups
The use of media across multiple nations, languages and/or cultures
The effects of convergent media on media economics.

Papers will be discussed, not presented, in a round-robin format that encourages collaboration and development.

Papers are invited from:
undergraduate students
Master’s students
Doctoral students
Faculty and professionals

Deadline for submission is December 1, 2006

For more information, see [pdf]
 

CFP: Re-Mediating Literature


Re-Mediating Literature

NWO-TKC / Utrecht University
Department of Literary Studies
July 4-6, 2007
Recent developments in digital and electronic media have stimulated new theoretical reflections on the nature of media as such and ont he way in which they evolve across time. The aim of this conference is to examine how recent technological changes have affected the ‘old’ medium of literature.

Multimedial and interactive texts, digitalized archives, cyberpoetics, and technological innovations such as foldable screens: together these have influenced the production and reception of literature, along with the ways in which we think about writing and reading. These onging developments call for a critical examination both of the relations between literature and the new media, and of the relations between literary studies and media studies.

The concept of ‘remediation’ in ourt title thus has a double thrust. Firstly, it refers to the transformative exchanges between literature and the new media: how has digitalization affected literature as a cultural medium? Secondly, ‘remediation’ indicates a relocation of literary studies within the broader field of (new) media studies: how could literary studies profit from the various analytical tools developed in (new) media studies and, conversely, how could our understanding of earlier phases in the evolution of the literary medium contribute to our understanding of present developments? By working on both these issues, we hope to relocate the place of literature within the milieu of modern media networks and technologies, but also to relocate the aims and practices of literary studies within the field of media studies.

Topics
* Changing conceptions and manifestions of the text from print to the digital age;

*Cyberpoetics and the hypertextual in digitalized and printed form;

*Remediation as a cultural process: how have different media reworked and incorporated each other, and how can such reworkigns be theorized in terms of cultural memory and media archeology?

*Copy-cats and mutations: how have textual, visual, aural, digital, and performative media functioned alongside each other, how have they co-existed? Which tasks and aspects do old media delegate to new media, or which tasks and aspects do new media copy from old media, and how has this changed the status and identity of the old medium?

*Old narratives, new games: narrative and narrative transformations across media;

*Technological inventions and their effects ont he object of literary studies: the impact of new mediations of the literary through foldable screens and other flexible, wearable, hand-held paper displays, as well as mobile acoustic networks;

*Institutional Remediations I: web publishing, accessibility, and canonization of hyperfiction, funding of literary projects on the internet, as well as the institutional developments of new strategies and conventions in editing techniques;

*Institutional Remedations II: literary studies from cultural to media studies: wil we witness, in the foreseeable future, a ‘post-human’ paradigm shift in the humanities that redirects our focus from cultural studies to media studies – or integrates the two?

Abstracts may be submitted until November 6, 2006

http://www2.let.uu.nl/remediatingliterature/

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