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Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, November). Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick. Presented at Worlds Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode" (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, September). Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode". Presented at Environmental Utterance; a Performative Conference; Making There Here, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK

The presentation will focus on the importance of designing for the location whilst acknowledging that not all users will choose / be able to physically be there. How can we design both for both here and there? What is the added value of being there... Read More about Being T/here: Locative experience design and the need for "Armchair Mode".

The use of virtual worlds in schools: A methodology and framework (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Newbutt, N., & Parsons, S. (2012, July). The use of virtual worlds in schools: A methodology and framework. Poster presented at 1st International Conference: Information Technology for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Valencia, Spain

The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Fowler, D. M. (2012, July). The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel. Paper presented at International Women and War Project, Hydra, Greece

This paper considers the respective journeys of the central female protagonist in Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ more recent The Wheel (Traverse Theatre, 2011). Both plays trace the experience of war on ordinary working women as they ass... Read More about The unimaginable journey: Time and spatial boundaries in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Zinnie Harris’ The Wheel.

Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, June). Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage. Paper presented at Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisation. Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK

With the affordances of locative media, the heritage industry is rapidly embracing the postdigital era, with iPhone Applications for English Heritage, the National Trust and UNESCO World Heritage sites. At the same time, nostalgia for the past (and... Read More about Technologies of being: Pervasive heritage.

The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, June). The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction. Presented at The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Workshop on Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’ Les statues meurent aussi and Ousmane Sembene’s La noire de…

Philip K. Dick’s Valis (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, June). Philip K. Dick’s Valis. Presented at Philip K. Dick’s Valis

Public talk and discussion

Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, March). Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer. Paper presented at idocs2012 - interactive documentary, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol / UWE

i-docs2012 Abstract Charlotte Crofts Title: ‘Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer’ The affordances of mobile technologies enable the i-doc experience to occur in dialogue between... Read More about Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal documentary: The Curzon Memories App, City Strata and The Cinemap Layer.

Sf and the short film (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, March). Sf and the short film. Presented at 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

Plenary panel

Foreign bodies: British theatre and the staging of humanitarian intervention (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Fowler, D. (2012, March). Foreign bodies: British theatre and the staging of humanitarian intervention. Paper presented at UWE Drama Research Group, St Matthias Campus, Bristol, UK

This paper considers the attempts made by British theatre to characterize foreign aid workers in areas of war and conflict since 2009. It is argued that changes in the political and cultural landscape of British theatre have resulted in an increased... Read More about Foreign bodies: British theatre and the staging of humanitarian intervention.

Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012 (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2012, January). Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012. Poster presented at MeCCSA Annual Conference 2012, University of Bedfordshire, Luton

**this poster won the poster prize at MeCCS@ 2012** Original MeCCSA Abstract for a Poster and Demo: I would like to present a poster and a demo of my Curzon Memories App, a practice-research project that uses mobile technologies and locative me... Read More about Curzon memories app: Award wining poster, MeCCSA 2012.