Net.Work
Day
10th
November 2001
at
The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11
8NS
Net-Work
Day Speakers
Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter
He
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.html
Kate
Pullinger
Novelist
and tutor in the trAce Online Writing School, she 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.com
Sue
Thomas
The
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
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