New Media and Technological Cultures

The final programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Monday 9th August 2004

From 13.00
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Dr Rob Fisher

14:15
Keynote Address
Owen Kelly
Cultural Issues in Developing 3d Worlds

15:30
Refreshments

16:00
Session 1: Interpresence, Interaction and Performance
Chair: Rui Torres

Artur Matuck
The Interpresence Project

Nicole Ridgway
In Excess of the Already Constituted: Interaction as Performance

Stephen Wanczyk
Wireless McLuhan

17.30
Wine Reception

Tuesday 10th August
09.00
Session 2: Technologies of Communication
Chair: Ursula Drees

Ertugrul Algan
Impact of Communication
Technologies in Multilingual and Multicultural Post-Soviet Societies

Ahmad Tajuddin Samsudin
JOM! chatz : Synchronous Messages Communication in Mobile Internet

Ki-Sung Kwak
Satellite Television in Multi-Channel Age in Japan

10.30
Refreshment

11.00
Session 3: Communication, Space and Beyond
Chair: Artur Matuck

Gul Kacmaz Erk
From Visiophone to Cyberculture: The Impacts of the Communicational and Spatial Changes in Contemporary Culture

Simge Göksoy
‘Events’ of The Interactive Documents As The Temporal and Spatial Decisions

Hanne-Louise Johannesen
Performative Space – Architecture Beyond Media?

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 4: Education, Virtual Education and the Learning Experience
Chair: Joanne Boucher

Feride Cicekoglu & Pinar Yoldas
Non-Linearity as a Teaching / Learning Experience in New Media

Michael Donovan
Is it a digital divide because it’s no good when talking from an Aboriginal point? Giving Aboriginal design to educational practices

Daniel Riha
Multiuser 3-D Virtual Library for the University of Konstanz

15.30
Refreshment

16.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: Humans, Technology and the Cinema
Chair: Ertugrul Algan

Sona Ertekin
Through The Liquid Glass: A Comparative Approach to The Matrix and eXistenZ

Erin Hill-Parks
The Fusion of Humanity and Technology: Blurring Lines in Philip K. Dick Films

Agnieszka Kamrowska
Cyberpunk motives in the contemporary cinema of the West and Far East

Session 5B: Exploring the Uses of Digital Media
Chair: Giuliano Bettanin

Rui Torres
POETRY AND THE DIGITAL MEDIUM: The Case of Computer-animated Poetry

Sue Thomas
Travels in Virtuality

Hee Holmen
'Life In Norway', an interactive animated documentary CD-rom

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 11th August
09.00
Session 6: Images and Spectacles
Chair: Erin Hill-Parks

Giuliano Bettanin
Virtual Idols and Science Fiction: Cyberbodies and the Society of Spectacle

Eu Jin Chua
Escape by Hologram: Laurie Anderson’s Telepresent Projection

Ann Kaloski-Naylor
The right to bear cameras: thinking about weapons of mass humiliation in the current US/UK-Iraq conflict

10.30
Refreshments

11.00
Session 7: Virtual Communities, Multidimensional Interfaces and Activists
Chair: Pinar Yoldas

Luigi Colazzo
From community to virtual community: the evolution of an idea

Stefano Martelli
Multidimensional Interfaces in Global Society

Dalia Chams
Internet activists in Egypt: public sphere and mobilization

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 8: Borders, Consent and Schizophrenia
Chair: Ki-Sung Kwak

Ozge Samanci
The Blurry Borders between Digital and Analog Media, Live Action and Animation in Spielberg’s Minority Report

Ursula Drees
Double me, schizophrenic thinking becoming a condition of survival.

Joanne Boucher
Manufacturing Consent? New Media and the Propaganda Model

15.30
Refreshment

16.00
Development Meeting
Rob Fisher

16.30
Conference Close