DASH Archives - January 2010

 From Frank Ancel:

Listen and see there this online documentary http://aquitaine.france3.fr/emissions/49069206-fr.php

The talk in French of Abraham Moles in 1973 Bordeaux "Art et  
Ordinateur" for Sigma9 Festival

   http://www.bcr-caillaud.org/bcrcaillaud/artcomputer/visite/chronos-final.swf

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Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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Postgraduates at the Film, Theatre & Television Department of The 
University of Reading welcome you to their eighth annual conference: JAM 
2010


THE AUDIENCE SPECTACULAR: Who's watching and how? Ideas of audience in 
screen media and performance

JAM 2010 April 16th, University of Reading

CALL FOR PAPERS Rapidly emerging technologies and the effects of 
globalization continue to shape the work of those practitioners concerned 
with re-positioning the viewer, and impact strongly on developing 
discourses within the fields of audience theory and spectatorship. Our 
dynamic role as audience members and groups, responding to a wide variety 
of forms, is fore-grounded with increasing urgency across media, prompting 
a dismantling of traditional models of engagement and re-energised 
theorization. JAM 2010 will aim to investigate audience identities across a 
range of media, practices, and critical discourses. We want to address the 
spectating, experiencing and participating audience member as well as 
thinking about the role of audience member as something we perform, 
consciously or otherwise. Journeys Across Media 2010 is the 8th annual 
conference for postgraduates, run by postgraduates working in the 
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading. We welcome 
proposals that address what it means to be an audience member today, framed 
by some of the following concerns:

Aesthetics 
Genre 
Narrative 
Representation 
Interaction 
New technologies 
Community 
Medium specificity 
Practice as research
Liveness 
Activism 
Relational space 
Documentary 

Proposals for practice as research presentations outside the twenty minute 
format will be considered.

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2010. Please send a 250 word 
proposal and a 100 word biographical note to Becki Hillman, Amanda 
Beauchamp and Feras Bait-Almal at jam2010@rdg.ac.uk

Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one day interdisciplinary 
conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a 
discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, 
television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity 
to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages of 
development in the active, friendly and supportive research environment of 
Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. Non-presenting 
delegates are also very welcome. Journeys Across Media is supported by the 
Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate 
School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading.

Data Soliloquies

ISBN 9780903305044 (January 2010)

Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity
of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models
and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of
public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they
were neutral ‘found objects’ rather than elaborate narrative
constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty.
Through a mix of essays and artworks, this witty and engaging book —
the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John
Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the
UCL Environment Institute — examines the theatricality of scientific
data display, while critiquing some of the poorly designed statistical
wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate.

http://sladepress.com

Forwarded from the litsci list:
The Litsci-L archive is viewable on the Web at:
http://litsci.org


FORENSIC CULTURES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

University of Manchester, UK
Friday 11 - Saturday 12 June 2010

This international conference examines in analytical and historical
perspective the remarkable prominence of forensic science and medicine  
in contemporary culture. It brings together leading scholars from  
history, sociology and socio-legal studies, media and cultural  
studies, and practitioners working within the diverse locations of  
forensic culture -from crime scenes and bio-medical laboratories to  
television studios. Topics for discussion include the politics and  
practice of DNA evidence, the use of "cold case review" in re- 
evaluating celebrated murder trials from the past, the historical  
invention of "crime scene investigation", the work of forensic  
identification at mass grave sites, and media forensics - including a  
dinner event featuring the creators of the BBC forensic dramas _Waking  
the Dead_ and _Silent Witness_.

_Forensic Cultures_ is sponsored by the University of Manchester's  
Centre for
the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), and by the
Wellcome Trust.

For further details, including registration information, please see the
conference website at www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/forensics/

or contact the organisers, Dr Ian Burney (ian.burney@manchester.ac.uk)  
and Dr
David Kirby (david.kirby@manchester.ac.uk).

PROGRAMME

DAY 1 (Friday 11 June)

Registration and Tea/Coffee: 9.45 -10.30

Introduction: 10.30 - 11.00

Session I: Broad Themes (11.00 - 12.45)

Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame
"Forensic Cultures in Historical Perspective"

Michael Lynch, Cornell University
"Science, Truth, and Forensic Cultures: The exceptional legal status
attributed to DNA evidence"

Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham
"Negotiating Forensics: Between Law, Science, and Criminal Justice"

Lunch: 1.00 - 2.00

Session II: Historical Case Studies (2.00 - 3.45)

Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton, University of Manchester
"Traces and Places: The Making of the Modern Crime Scene"

Anne Crowther, University of Glasgow
"The Ruxton murders: an early exercise in co-operative forensics"

Alison Winter, University of Chicago
"Securing memory in cold-war America"

Refreshments: 3.45 - 4.15

Session III: Practitioner Perspectives (4.15 - 6.00)
David Foran, Michigan State University
"Did Crippen do it? Reflections on Retrospective Forensics"

William Haglund, International Forensic Program, Physicians for Human  
Rights
"Thresholds of Identity: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Mass Grave
Forensics"

Caroline Wilkinson, University of Dundee
"Facial Identification of the Dead: The ethical issues associated with  
the
facial depiction of unknown human remains"

Dinner and Evening Event: Screening Forensics (7.00 - 10.30)

Barbara Machin, Creator, _Waking the Dead_
Nigel McCrery, Creator, _Silent Witness_


DAY 2 (Saturday 12 June)

Tea/Coffee: 9.30 - 10.00

Session I: Analyzing Practices (10.00 - 11.45)

Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine
"Forensic Reality?: CSI, Media, and Technoscience"

Gary Edmond, University of New South Wales
"Suspect science and unreliable law: The legal topography of 'facial  
mapping'
evidence"

Barbara Prainsack, King's College, University of London
"Views from the inside: Self-stigmatisation and biopolitical discourse  
in
Austrian prisons. A case study on forensic DNA technologies"

Lunch: 12.00 - 1.00

Session II: Forensic Publics (1.00 - 2.45)

Deborah Jermyn, Roehampton University
"Labs and Slabs: Prime Suspect, TV crime drama and the quest for  
forensic
realism"

David Kirby, University of Manchester
"Forensic Fictions: The Production of Forensic Science in Television  
Dramas"

Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, NIH
"(in)Visible Proofs; or, The case of the hidden politics of forensic  
exhibitionism"
-- 
David A. Kirby, PhD
Lecturer in Science Communication Studies
Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL, England
web site: http://www.davidakirby.com
phone: 0161.275.5837
email: david.kirby@manchester.ac.uk


====
Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
====
Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
====

We are extending the deadline to receive proposals for our Journeys Across 
Media conference. The new deadline is 20th February. Applications for 
travel bursaries will be considered


THE AUDIENCE SPECTACULAR: Who's watching and how? Ideas of audience in 
screen media and performance

JAM 2010 April 16th, University of Reading

CALL FOR PAPERS Rapidly emerging technologies and the effects of 
globalization continue to shape the work of those practitioners concerned 
with re-positioning the viewer, and impact strongly on developing 
discourses within the fields of audience theory and spectatorship. Our 
dynamic role as audience members and groups, responding to a wide variety 
of forms, is fore-grounded with increasing urgency across media, prompting 
a dismantling of traditional models of engagement and re-energised 
theorization. JAM 2010 will aim to investigate audience identities across a 
range of media, practices, and critical discourses. We want to address the 
spectating, experiencing and participating audience member as well as 
thinking about the role of audience member as something we perform, 
consciously or otherwise. Journeys Across Media 2010 is the 8th annual 
conference for postgraduates, run by postgraduates working in the 
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading. We welcome 
proposals that address what it means to be an audience member today, framed 
by some of the following concerns:

Aesthetics 
Genre 
Narrative 
Representation 
Interaction 
New technologies 
Community 
Medium specificity 
Practice as research
Liveness 
Activism 
Relational space 
Documentary 

Proposals for practice as research presentations outside the twenty minute 
format will be considered.

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline extended to 20th February 2010. 

Please send a 250 word proposal and a 100 word biographical note to Becki 
Hillman, Amanda Beauchamp and Feras Bait-Almal at jam2010@rdg.ac.uk

Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one day interdisciplinary 
conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a 
discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, 
television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity 
to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages of 
development in the active, friendly and supportive research environment of 
Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. Non-presenting 
delegates are also very welcome. Journeys Across Media is supported by the 
Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate 
School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading.