Digital Densities Program

The full program for the Digital Densities symposium is now complete and ready to view at your leisure.

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Schedule for Digital Densities Symposium

The Digital Densities Symposium features papers, from leading academics, that explore the intersection between digital and material culture across a variety of disciplines including the performing arts, art history, publishing and new media. The official program will be ready to circulate in a few more days, however the schedule has been locked down and will proceed as follows:

Thursday 26 March

6.00        8.00      Public Lecture/ Keynote Address by Sarah Kenderdine

                            McMahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts Building

Friday 27 March

8.45        9.00      Registration and coffee/tea

                            Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

9.00 – 10.30        Session 1: Different Densities (chair: Paul Rae)

                            Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

                            Gillian Russell
                            Miguel Escobar
                            Christopher Thompson

10.30 – 11.00      Morning Tea break

                            Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

11.00 – 12.45      Session 2a: Temporalities (Chair: Joseph Hughes)

                            Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

                            Nick Thieberger
                            Erik Champion
                            Kim Doyle
                            James Manning

                             Session 2b: Digital Practices (Chair: Susan Lowish)

                             VCRC Third Floor, John Medley Building

                             Harriette Richards
                             Nina Buchan
                             Rosemary Wrench

12.45 – 1.15        Lunch break         

1.15 – 2.45           Session 3: Political Archaeology (Chair: Jane Brown)

                             Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

                             Susan Lowish
                             Sybil Nolan
                             Philip Batty

3.00 – 4.30           Session 4a: Manuscript/Digiscript (Chair: David McInnis)

                             Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

                             Sarah Balkin
                             Beth Driscoll and Mark Davis
                             Fiona Tweedie

                              Session 4b: Assemblages (Chair: Amanda Malel Trevisanut)

                              VCRC Third Floor, John Medley Building

                              Claire Smith
                              Robbie and Luke
                              Gavin Findlay

4.30 – 5.30           Closing panel (Chair: Joseph Hughes)

                             Fourth Floor Linkway, John Medley Building

                             Paul Arthur
                             Rachel Fensham
                             Erik Champion
                             Deb Verhoeven

Remember to register your attendance at go.unimelb.edu.au/m8gn

If you have any enquires please contact Amanda Malel Trevisanut at amandat@unimelb.edu.au

Registrations are now open to attend the Digital Densities Symposium

Digital Densities: A symposium examining relations between material cultures and digital data  

26^th and 27^th March 2015

Hosted by the Digital Humanities Incubator (DHI) in the School of Culture and Communication
The University of Melbourne

In his key text Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum identifies a need to reassess theories of electronic textuality in light of “the material matrix governing writing and inscription in all forms: erasure, variability, repeatability and survivability” (2008, xii). In the academy, this material turn co-exists with an increasing utilization of digital resources and digital methodologies to preserve and disseminate the findings of our research. These shifts are accompanied by divergent affective responses that include an interest in tactile sensations and a mourning of the loss of the object. There is also a new awareness of the forms of lightness or weight attached to the transmission of ideas in and beyond our research communities. These numerous moments of contact between material culture and digital methodologies open up debates about the densities of our culture and scholarship.

The Digital Densities Symposium features papers, from leading academics, that explore the intersection between digital and material culture across a variety of disciplines including the performing arts, art history, publishing and new media.

Presenters include Sarah Kenderdine, Paul Arthur, Erik Champion, Miguel Escobar, Rachel Fensham, Gillian Russell, Nick Thieberger and Deb Verhoeven

Thursday 26^th March 2015, 6-8pm
McMahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts Building
Keynote Address: Prof. Sarah Kenderdine
To register attendance please click here

Friday 27^th March 2015, 9am - 5.30pm
Linkway, 4th Floor John Medley Building
Registration 8.45am
To register attendance please click here

Admission is free.
Bookings are required.
Seating is limited.

The symposium program will be available via this blog closer to the event.