DIGITAL STORIES
NARRATIVES AND AESTHETICS IN POST-NETWORK MEDIA
Post-Graduate Symposium, 21st June 2018, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, TFTV, University of York
9:00 Arrival – Coffee & Tea
9:30 Welcome to the Symposium, by Kristyn Gorton, University of York
9:40 Key speaker: Dr Glen Creeber, University of Aberystwyth
Breaking the Loop: Contemporary TV Drama and Convergence
10:40 Short break – coffee & tea
10:50 Panel 1: Poetics of Digital Realities
Chair: Dr Jenna Ng, University of York
Samuel Kaufman, University of York
88:88: Time, Precarity and an Alternative Economy of Images
Felix Rose Kawitzky, University of Cape Town
Harry Potter and the Magical Message Boards: Continuous collective storytelling in online fan spaces
Joshua Schulze, Independent Scholar
The Poetics of Desktop Cinema: Close Readings of a Digital Aesthetic
Claudia Lisa Moeller, IASSP Milano
Keeping Up With The Kardashians – The ruminating communication
12:10 Short break – coffee & tea
12:20 Panel 2: Emergence of digital aesthetics in real life environments
Chair: Dr Guy Schofield, University of York
Jez Coram, Newcastle University
Post digital zones: Expanding the essay film and the performative moving image essay
Elisabetta Fabrizi, Newcastle University
The role of the contemporary art curator in the shift of artists’ experimental film&video to the mainstream of the visual arts.
Claire Frampton, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Digital Technology in Creative Heritage Theatre Projects
Richard Kearns, University of York
Art, Technology and Narrative Agency
13:30 Lunch
14:15 Panel 3, Annual Progression Presentations 1: Reimagining Narratives
Chair: Mr Ed Braman
Tasos Giapoutzis
The Interplay of Landscape and Nostalgia in Contemporary European Cinema
Simona Manni
Responsive media and non-linear participatory narratives of mental health
Joseph Horsey
Finding documentary's metaphors
Gabrielle Russell
Towards a feminist mythography: a practice-based enquiry exploring female archetypes in native folktales and how these might play as source material in film narratives that aim to configure a contemporary feminist mythic cycle.
15:35 Coffe/Tea break
15:45 Panel 4: Annual Progression Presentations 2: Narrating Catastrophes and Social Changes
Chair: Dr Kristyn Gorton
Michael Holden
Comics and Catastrophe: Global Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Graphic Narrative
Hadeel Shqair
Aljazeera TV's Role in Shaping the Political Consciousness of Arab
Rosamund Portus
Extinction Studies: Imagining a World without Bees
16:45 Wine Reception