DASH Archives - February 2012

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Please find the call for papers below. Registration forms can be downloaded on our website.

Cheers,
The Jam Team
Journeys Across Media
Thursday 19th April 2012

Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2012 is the 10th annual international conference for postgraduate researchers, organized by postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. It is one of the most established postgraduate conferences in the country and provides a lively forum for the presentation of both fully realised and developing research in the areas film, theatre, television and new media. Indeed, previous delegates have welcomed this opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work at various stages of development. Non-presenting delegates are very welcome to the conference.

For the second year running, the JAM team will be guest-editing a special issue of Intellect’s Journal of Media Practice. Papers from the full range of disciplines will be selected to form a conference collection, thus providing a rare, specialised opportunity for new researchers to have their work published. Academic staff from a range of institutions will participate in the editorial and peer-reviewing processes. The first issue of the JAM journal, in association with the Journal of Media Practice, is currently in the final stages of production and will be available in early 2012.

Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television

JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research.

Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as an imprint of time itself. Debates around representations of time, organisation of time in film, the experience of film time, or film as an archival entity have been only a few of the approaches to the rich investigations of cinematic time.
 The most prominent link between time and television is that of ‘liveness’, which highlights the contemporaneous nature of some broadcast television.  This is heightened when the broadcast is for a special occasion (i.e. a Royal Wedding or Charity Event) and the notion of sharing a ‘television moment’.  Although an under-researched area, television and memory rely on understanding the role that time plays within this relationship.  Explorations of the impact ‘represented time’ and ‘real time’ have on the structure and identity of fiction television programming, have also been central.
As with screen media, in theatre, the physical presence of time on stage, the endurance of performer and spectator, consideration of the aesthetics of duration in discussing time-based and durational modes of performance, and time as a framing device for a performance are only some of the areas of focus when discussing the temporal. In addition, time is vitally important in the construction of gestural narratives.  Concepts like instantaneity, rhythm, repetition or duration are very important and crossover into Deaf and disability performance practices.
This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses around time to submit papers for the JAM 2012 conference; topics may include, but are not restricted to:

Perception of time
Time and memory
Spatialisation of time/Time-Space
Cinematic time
Time and technology
Time and New Media
The archive
Revivals, Anniversary Productions, Retrospectives and Re-enactments
Sequels, Series and Recurring Characters
The Evolution of the Spectator in Time
Endurance Art
Debates on Ephemerality within performance
Life-as-art
The experience and performance of Duration
Time-based performance
Timelessness

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 3rd February 2012

Please send a 250-word abstract for a fifteen-minute paper and a 50-word biographical note to Tonia Kazakopoulou, Johnmichael Rossi, Simon Floodgate and Edina Husanovic at jam2012@reading.ac.uk.  Proposals for practice-as-research presentations/performances are warmly invited; these have to conform to the 15-minute format.

A limited number of travel bursaries may be available for the JAM Conference 2012, offered by the Film, Theatre and Television Department at the University of Reading; please fill in the relevant section on the registration form if you wish to apply. For further details and registration forms please visit the conference website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/pg-research/ftt-pgrjam.aspx

We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider promotion of this conference through your networks. Journeys Across Media is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at Reading and the Standing Conference of University Drama

From the Computer Conservation Society list and possibly of interest to CAS members and friends:

Dear Fellow Members
 
I am very happy to tell you that the book entitled “Alan Turing and his Contemporaries”  co-authored by 4 CCS members, expertly edited by Simon Lavington and published for us by the BCS is now available.. This book will be the subject of our March meeting when the authors will present the contents.
 
It is available via the BCS website http://www.bcs.org/category/15824
or via Amazon  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Turing-His-Contemporaries-Computers/dp/1906124906/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329049354&sr=8-1.
 
Proceeds from the book will be used to support the restoration projects of the CCS.
 
Good wishes
 
Roger Johnson


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