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Media Education Summit (2009, Sept 8, Liverpool)
May 27, 2009This event is organised by The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice – Bo=
urnemouth University, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University and suppor=
ted by Skillset, the Art, Design and Media Higher Education Subject Centre,=
the North West Regional Development Agency and Northwest Vision & Media.
Conference Details
Venue: Liverpool John Moores University
Dates: Tuesday 8th September & Wednesday 9th September 2009
Fees: Early Bird =C2=A3155 (before 31st May), Full Rate =C2=A3195 (after 31=
st May)
Themes
* Digital Britain – implications for HE
* The Media Studies 2.0 debate
* Employer engagement
* 14-19 educational reform
* The Relationship between theory and practice
* Assessing media learning – the categorisation of creativity and origin=
ality
* The Media teacher / academic as researcher / academic as practitioner
* Students reflecting on their creative practice
Confirmed Speakers
* Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport
* Jeff Jarvis, Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism Prog=
ramme at the City University of New York
* Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas =
State University, USA
* Tom Loosemore, Head of 4iP
* Prof Stephen Heppell, The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice
Call for Creative Contributions, Papers and Poster Presentations
Proposals for short screenings, papers, posters, foyer demonstrations and p=
erformances related to the conference theme are invited. Please submit sho=
rt proposals (up to 500 words plus other artefacts or information as releva=
nt) by 31st May 2009.
There will be designated time to enable poster presenters to share their wo=
rk in person. The poster session allows a more interactive forum for commun=
ication and collaborative discussion. The poster presenter must be present =
during the period assigned for discussion.
Please send proposals and any queries to: info@cemp.ac.uk
Further details can be found at www.cemp.ac.uk/summit together with informa=
tion on how to register to attend.
jon wardle
director, the centre for excellence in media practice
associate dean, the media school, bournemouth university
01202 965907
www.cemp.ac.uk
Beyond the Politics of Identity (2009, Jun 20, Aberdeen)
May 27, 2009Beyond the Politics of Identity
Postgraduate Film Conference
20th June 2009
University of Aberdeen
Keynote: Michael Renov
The Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is hosting a one-day postgraduate conference, Beyond The Politics of Identity, on 20 June 2009 centring upon the relationship between the visual arts and identity negotiation, performance and reception. The keynote speaker is Michael Renov, Professor in Critical Studies and Dean at the University of Southern California’s Department of Cinematic Arts and one of the leading scholars on documentary film.
The deadline for submitting papers has now closed but we welcome you to attend as a non-presenting delegate for a stimulating day of papers and discussion. Visit the website for information about the programme and online registration, which will close on 13 June 2009: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/events/conferences/identity/
Beyond the Politics of Identity is funded by a grant from the AHRC, the Department of Film and Visual Culture and the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
goNORTH (2009, 11-12 Jun, Inverness)
May 26, 2009http://www.gonorth.biz/
goNorth 2009
Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June
Screen and Broadcast Industries Events
Thursday 11th June
9.30am – 5pm Sheffield Doc Fest/Meet Market Pitching Workshop
LOCATION: Ramada Encore Hotel, Academy Street
5.30pm – 7.30pm Thursday 11th June
SUICIDE MAN screening of short film in association with BAFTA
LOCATION: Playhouse Cinema, Eden Court with drinks reception in the upstairs foyer afterwards
Friday 12th June
10am – 11am Celtic Media Festival presents a Masterclass with Mark Leese, Production Designer
LOCATION: Ramada Jarvis
11am – 12.30pm The Comedy Unit : Shortcuts to Comedy Writing with Niall Clark
LOCATION: Ramada Jarvis
1pm – 2pm FilmG Launch
LOCATION: Ramada Jarvis
2pm – 3.30pm Celtic Media Festival presents a Masterclass with Bernard MacLaverty
LOCATION: Ramada Jarvis
4pm – 6.00pm Women in Film and Television
In conversation with….
LOCATION: Ramada Jarvis
10am – 6pm One-on-One Sessions: bookable throughout the day
Mark Leese Production Designer
Clare Fisher Producer/Director of Grand Designs;
Beverly Cook, International Producer from Orchid Films;
Mark Jenkins, BAFTA award winning Editor.
LOCATION: Ramada Jarvis
Screen Studies Conference (2009, July 3-5, Glasgow)
March 23, 2009The 19th international Screen Studies Conference, programmed by Screen editors John Caughie and Annette Kuhn, will be a special occasion marking the journal’s 50th anniversary and will follow the publication of a special anniversary issue (volume 50, number 1, Spring 2009) exploring a range of contemporary screen theory. The conference will take up this theme in both plenary sessions and key strands of conference papers.
Plenary speakers:
Franceso Casetti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
John Caughie (University of Glasgow)
Mary Ann Doane (Brown University)
Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary, University of London)
A registration form is attached in Word and pdf formats. Please return it as soon as possible, by fax, email or post to the address below:
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland
t 0141 330 5035
f 0141 330 3515
screen@arts.gla.ac.uk The 19th international Screen Studies Conference, programmed by Screen editors John Caughie and Annette Kuhn, will be a special occasion marking the journal’s 50th anniversary and will follow the publication of a special anniversary issue (volume 50, number 1, Spring 2009) exploring a range of contemporary screen theory. The conference will take up this theme in both plenary sessions and key strands of conference papers. Plenary speakers: Franceso Casetti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) John Caughie (University of Glasgow) Mary Ann Doane (Brown University) Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary, University of London) A registration form is attached in Word and pdf formats. Please return it as soon as possible, by fax, email or post to the address below: Screen Gilmorehill Centre University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland t 0141 330 5035 f 0141 330 3515 screen@arts.gla.ac.uk
New Beginnings: exploring artist-led initiatives
March 10, 2009New Beginnings: exploring artist-led initiatives
Saturday 14th March, 2009
The Arches, Glasgow
11.00 – 13.30
FREE
New Beginnings: exploring artist-led initiatives
At a time of growing financial instability, it is becoming more
important for artists to work together to make things happen. DIY and
artist-led initiatives have been a long-standing strategy to creating
independent opportunities; so how can artists better work together to
collaborate and form structures and networks of support?
This is the first of two events that New Work Network (NWN) will be
holding in Scotland, to connect artists and share examples of artist-
led culture in live and interdisciplinary arts practices.
?New Beginnings: exploring artist-led initiatives? is an opportunity
to explore these questions. Participants will share contacts and
connections over breakfast, listen to presentations on artist-led
projects from Forrest Fringe and Guyan Porter, who will also
facilitate a World Caf? to discuss these themes. An informal directory
of participants will also be compiled to enable connections to
continue after the meeting.
This is a free event but must be booked in advance through NWN. To get
involved please RSVP to New Work Network on
info@newworknetwork.org.uk, with ?New Beginnings? in the title by
Wednesday 11th March. To secure your place, please email 100 words
(max) about your practice and include where in Scotland you are based.
Expanded Cinema (2009, April 18-19, Tate Modern)
March 10, 2009Professor Yvonne Spielmann gives invited address here…
Expanded Cinema
Activating the Space of Reception
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Tony Hill
Point Source 1973 © The artist |
Friday 17, Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April 2009
This conference presents a major critical appraisal of Expanded Cinema. Coined in the mid-1960s by Stan Vanderbeek, but with its origins in the experiments of early twentieth Century avant-garde filmmaking, media-technologies and performance art, the term Expanded Cinema identifies a film and video practice which activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema’s historical and cultural ‘architectures of reception’ into sites of cinematic experience that are heterogeneous, performative and non-determined.
Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up questions surrounding the spectator’s construction of time/space relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it offers an alternative and challenging perspective on filmmaking, visual arts practices and the narratives of social space, everyday life and cultural communication.
Speakers include Mark Barlett, Eugeni Bonet, Cecile Chich, Noam Elcott, Cate Elwes, Valie Export, Anja Gossens, Chrissie Iles, Cindy Keefer, Ji-Hoon Kim, Liz Kotz, Mike Leggett, Malcolm Le Grice, Chris Meigh-Andrews. Stephen Partridge, William Raban, Lucy Reynolds, Tony Sinden, Yvonne Spielmann, Jonathan Walley, Chris Welsby, Duncan White, Peter Weibel and Maxa Zoller.
Organised by Tate Modern and Central St Martins College of Art and Design (UAL) with support from the AHRC.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£30 (£20 concessions), booking required
£30 (£20 concessions), booking required
For tickets book online
or call 020 7887 8888.
or call 020 7887 8888.
OfCom Report highlights role of radio
March 10, 2009—Apologies for cross-posting—
Source:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2009/03/nr_20090309a
Executive Summary at:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/cr_annualrpt/
Full report (pdf, 386kb):
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/cr_annualrpt/cr_annualrpt.pdf
Communities are the radio stars
More than 8 million people are now able to tune into community radio
stations and demand is still high for licences, Ofcom’s first Annual
Report of Community Radio reveals.
Over 130 community stations are now broadcasting across the UK, with
another 50 preparing to launch.
These not-for-profit radio stations cover small geographical areas and
each typically provides 81 hours of original and distinctive output a
week – mostly locally produced.
Community radio licensing was introduced by Ofcom and the first licence
was awarded in March 2005.
Rich content
Community radio stations reflect the variety of cultures, demographics
and tastes in the UK.
For example, there are stations catering for urban music fans (New
Style, Birmingham) experimental music aficionados (Resonance FM, London)
younger people (CSR, Canterbury), the Armed Forces and their families
(Edinburgh Garrison FM) and religious communities (Cross Rhythms,
Stoke-on-Trent).
In total, 41% of stations are aimed at general audiences in town or
rural communities, 18% broadcast to general audiences in urban areas,
but a significant proportion target specific groups such as young people
(17%), minority ethnic groups (14%) or military communities (5%).
Wide social benefits
The Community Radio Annual Report also reveals that, on average, each
station operates with 74 volunteers who together give around 214 hours
of their time a week. Across the sector this represents over 100,000
volunteer hours a month.
In fulfilling their wider requirements to deliver social gain to their
communities, each station are also required to provide training and
accessibility.
For example, in the year to April 2008 Bang Radio, broadcasting in west
London, delivered broadcast training to over 230 young people, and
continues to offer further work placements to local school and college
pupils.
Similarly, Wolverhampton’s WCR Radio provided accredited training to 49
of its 190 volunteers – 44 of whom now hold a qualification in radio
production.
Funding community radio
The typical income of a community radio station is £66,500 pa – yet for
some stations this is as little as £6,000.
The Report has established that a community radio station’s income is
primarily generated through grants (45%), donations (12%) and in the
growing area of service contracts with local authorities (11%). Across
the board, on-air advertising represents 18% of total income.
Peter Davies, Ofcom’s Director of Radio Policy, said:
“Community radio is a real success story. It delivers rich and varied
content to listeners and provides additional benefits through community
involvement and training.
“Our Community Radio Annual Report reveals that, in just over three
years, 130 stations have sprung up across the length and breadth of the
UK. They reach many communities: from rural to inner city areas and
serving diverse audiences with content ranging from religion,
experimental music to RnB.”
“We are delighted that interest from those wishing to run such stations
for their own communities remains high.”
Those connected to and working within the sector:
WCR’s (Wolverhampton) Zac Morris, 31, a former soldier currently seeking
work said:
“Before I joined WCR I had no knowledge of all the technical aspects
involved in radio.
“Now I can operate a studio, take interviews and I was broadcasting live
on-air after receiving my training.”
Ian Wallace, Director of Gaydio based in Manchester, which is preparing
to launch said:
“There’s a real excitement in Manchester’s gay community about the
launch of Gaydio.
“As well as working with a great team of people we will also be reaching
out to those people who do not currently have a lot of contact with the
LGBT community, which can only be a win–win for everyone in Manchester.”
Jonathan Bellamy who runs Cross Rhythms FM, a Christian radio station
based in Stoke, said:
“We have been thrilled at how well we have been received by local
Christians but also by those without a faith. In particular, our unique
music playlist mix of rock, pop, hip hop and R&B by Christian artists
has proved a real hit.
“Our community focussed programming has included features on Media
Action for Mental Health, Safer Cities Partnership, ADSiS (Alcohol and
Drug Services in Staffordshire) and many, many others.”
Mark Page, who produces programming for a number of Army stations, said:
“Army audiences and their families, as well as civilians who live in the
local area really value our output.
“Listeners of Community Radio with a military focus regularly hear from
our boys and girls deployed in war zones – it is such a great feeling to
know our programming gives such comfort to those who tune in and that it
also provides real links with those outside bases.”
The full report can be found here:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/cr_annualrpt/
Ends
NOTES FOR EDITORS
1. Community Radio stations are different to local commercial radio
stations; they are not-for-profit and must deliver social gain. They
were created with the Community Radio Order 2004
2. Each community radio station that has been broadcasting for more than
a year is required to complete an annual report.
3. For the period May 07 – Apr 08 Ofcom received reports from 67 stations.
4. A full list of community radio stations can be found here:
www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/community-main.html
New publication in the Scotsman
March 6, 2009Newly enrolled PhD student John Forsyth is a frequent commentator in The Scotsman. here’s his most recent contribution
Forsyth, J. (2009, March 4) Far from whole story on domestic abuse, The Scotsman [journalism]
