Net.Work Day
10th November 2001
Making the internet work for writers and artists
A technology-free day at trAce
at The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS
£25.00 + VAT = £29.38 (full fee)
£15.00 + VAT = £17.63 (concessions*)Net.Work is a chance for writers and artists who use the web to meet face-to-face and discuss vital artistic and professional issues like:
PLUS Open Day at the trAce Online Writing School
11th November 2001 at http://tracewritingschool.com
Get an insider glimpse of these innovative courses, with opportunities to see coursework and chat with tutors and students. See the website for information on how to participate.Online Discussions
Visit our online discussion board at http://hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk/~network to help set the agenda before the day, and continue afterwards.
Small Group Discussions
Small group discussions will report back to the plenary session at the end of the day. To help in our planning, please indicate on your booking form which TWO topics interest you the most (this does not preclude your making other choices on the day) .
Booking
Attendance fee includes lunch and refreshments. Places are limited so please book early.
£25.00 + VAT = £29.38 (full fee)
£15.00 + VAT = £17.63 (concessions*)
*The concessionary rate applies to students, those in receipt of jobseekers allowance, income support, invalidity benefit or severe disability allowance and those under 18 or over 60. Proof required. Concessions also apply to one carer accompanying a person with a disability.Access for users with disabilities
There is wheelchair access to the main conference areas.
Net.Work Day Programme
at The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS
09.00 Registration opens
Tea & coffee on arrival10.00 Welcome & Overview
Sue Thomas10.30 The Web Reader: looking for narrative on the web
Kate Pullinger11.00 Small group discussions 12.00 Hot Buffet Lunch 13.30 Creating Content For Digital Media
Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter14.00 Small group discussions 15.00 Tea, coffee & biscuits 15.30 Plenary 17.00 Close Evening Delegates staying in Nottingham on Friday and/or Saturday evenings might also like to visit
eXpo at The Bonington Gallery, part of the NOW Festival.
For more details see http://www.nowfestival.org.ukNet-Work Day Speakers
Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter
will describe the emerging digital platforms, the radical changes which they are likely to trigger in the media landscape and the opportunities for new approaches to interactive content which they make possible.
Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter is a content development consultant with experience in commissioning and making original programming across a broad spectrum of traditional and new media including broadband, web, video and film. He has worked freelance for a number of new media agencies including RTSe, Mousepower and Pittard Sullivan. Last year he was a Senior Producer at Network of the World – http://www.now.com – the world's first converged digital satellite and web channel launched by TWI and PCC in June. His role was to lead a cross-platform production team responsible for originating, developing and producing original output for synchronous web and live TV on a daily basis. Prior to that he had 16 years experience in broadcast television working on a wide range of programming – initially for the BBC Drama Department and subsequently as an Independent Producer of drama and factual projects.
His TV credits include Mortimer's Law – an original 6 x 50' prime time drama series made by Chatsworth TV and transmitted in Feb 1998 on BBC1. A Bill Called William – an original 50' documentary with extensive dramatisation and reconstruction produced for Mentorn Barraclough Carey and transmitted on Channel Four in July 1997 and subsequently screened at the San Francisco, Cork and Turin Film Festivals. He is currently developing several cross – platform content projects, as well as being Designer, Chair and Keynote Speaker for the Digital Synergies programme of 7 monthly seminars – a unique collaboration between the University of Westminster's new media training agency New Media Knowledge (NMK), the Producer's Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).He has also organised and spoken at seminars such as the Interactive Fictions event arranged in conjunction with New Media Knowledge in January and Inhabited TV at the ICA Cybersalon in March 2001. Stephenjp@nmk.co.uk
http://www.nmk.co.uk/synergies
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,430351,00.htmlKate Pullinger
novelist and tutor in the trAce Online Writing School, will look at the web from the point of view of a successful print writer recently come to the medium and talk about her recent experiences of teaching writing online.
Kate Pullinger is a Canadian who has lived in London since 1982. Her books include the novels The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, and, most recently, Weird Sister, as well as the short story collection My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison. She co-wrote the novel of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion. She writes for film and television and has lectured and taught widely. In 1995/96 she was Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge; she currently teaches undergraduates at Randolph Macon Women's College at the University of Reading, is an advisor for the University of Middlesex Creative Writing MA, and in October 2001 will hold the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the new Women's Library at Guildhall University. She lives in London with her partner and two children. She teaches Short Fiction and is a Workshop Host at the trAce Online Writing School.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/school/tutors/index.htm
Kate.Pullinger@ntlworld.comSue Thomas
Artistic Director of trAce, will summarise and contextualise the last few years of writing on the web.
Sue Thomas is the founder and Artistic Director of trAce. She has managed numerous significant web-based creative writing projects including three virtual residencies; several creative writing collaborations including The Noon Quilt, Home and Migrating Memories; the creation of the trAce Online Writing School, and the development and management of the trAce Online Community itself. She has over ten years experience of teaching writing in the UK and the US, and in 1994 she developed and validated the Master of Arts degree in Writing at The Nottingham Trent University. During that time she wrote A Handbook for Creative Writing Tutors. Her books also include the novels Correspondence (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award) and Water, plus an anthology of contemporary short stories Wild Women, 1994. She has been working with the arts and technology since 1986 and has been teaching online since 1996. Her online work includes a web-configuration of Correspondence at Riding the Meridian; Imagining a Stone at Ensemble Logic and Choragraphy; and Lines at Lux: notes for an electronic writing. With Teri Hoskin, she co-edited the Noon Quilt website and book. She is currently writing a novel of virtual life.
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas
sue.thomas@ntu.ac.uk