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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

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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

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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.

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Claire Frampton, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Digital Technology in Creative Heritage Theatre Projects


Richard Kearns, University of York
Art, Technology and Narrative Agency

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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.

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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

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16:45 Wine Reception

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