Incubation Conference

Programme

Incubation takes place at The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 8NS. The main buildings used on campus will be George Eliot (main building), The John Clare Lecture Theatres, Ada Byron King and The Peverell Halls of Residence - please see the campus map for full details.

The Symposium begins at 11am Monday 12 July 2004 (registration opens at 9am) and culminates with Steve Gibson's Virtual DJ performance in the evening of Wednesday 14 July.

Monday's presentations will be webcast live for those who cannot make it to this year's symposium. They will also be available online after the event: http://esystems.ntu.ac.uk/broadcast/

Monday 12th July 2004
09.00-11.00	Registration and refreshments
11.00	Welcome: Sue Thomas, Artistic Director, trAce
11.10	Showcase of trAce Projects including: Dawn Quilt for South Asia created for The British Council and presented by Margaret Meyer, Director of Film, Literature & New Media About Time developed with Kate Pullinger for the Royal Literary Fund and the National Health Service Information Authority **2004 Incubation Gallery of Women's New Media Writing curated by Carolyn Guertin and presented by Sue Thomas
12.00	Official Welcome by Professor Trevor Palmer, Pro Vice-Chancellor of The Nottingham Trent University
12.15	Tim Wright - Digital Writer-in-Residence In Search of Oldton
13.15-14.45	Lunch Sales table and registration for late arrivals
14.15	Book Launch: Raw Nerve Books presents Hello World by Sue Thomas
14.45	Keynote: Ted Nelson Fixing the Computer World Introduced by Charlie Gere
15.45	Refreshments Sales table open
16.15	Alan Sondheim Past and Present Work Introduced by Lawrence Upton
17.15	Simon Widdowson - Digital Teacher-in-Residence Improving Children's Literacy through the Use of Technology within the Primary Classroom
18.15	Teachers’ Reception Invitation only	Bar opens Sales table open 18.00-19.00
19.00	Hot buffet
20.00 - 22.00	Performances: MC Gavin Stewart Joerg Piringer: spambot Lawrence Upton: Dan-sing JodiAnn Stevenson: Bowl of Milk, Live
24.00	Bar closes

Tuesday 13th July 2004
08.00-09.00	Breakfast
09.00 - 10.00	Registration open
09.30	Chair Simon Mills Jodi Zellen The Linear vs the Nonlinear in Hypertext works Steve Gibson Visual Music and Spatial Art: Virtual DJ	Chair Catherine Byron Jeremy Hight Narrative Archaeology and the new narrativology Christina McPhee naxsmash.net Grigar & Barber Winged Words: The Nouspace Radio Café Project
11.00	Refreshments
11.30	Chair Alan Sondheim Gavin Stewart Would you let Mikhail Bakhtin smoke your text? Simon Mills Who Stole the Soul? Randy Adams Hyper.media[ting] Word and Image	Chair Jane Dorner Robert Kendall E-Whispers of the Oracle Ravi Shankar The Communality of Online Journals Miranda & Neumark Journey to the C/enter
13.00	Lunch Sales table open 13.15 - 14.15
14.30	Chair Helen Whitehead Jim Andrews The Ghost of Poetry in the Machine--the life of electric letters Suzanne Ebel It's a fair CoP! Writing in the trAce community	Chair Paul Brown Alana Jelinek me-you-them Lucy Kimbell I measure therefore I am
15.30	Refreshments
16.00	Workshop: Millie Niss Sound Poetry in Flash	Workshop: Deena Larsen Brainstorming into Connections
17.00	Workshop: Stefan Maskiewicz Tools & methods of authoring multi-threaded dialogs	Workshop: Sue Thomas Hello World: imagining virtuality
18.00	Bar opens Sales table open 18.00-19.00
19.00	Symposium dinner After Dinner Speaker: Charlie Gere A question of placement: some brief thoughts about memory and location
21.00-22.30	Performances: MC Tim Wright Bevir, Draycott, Joseph, Keep: Online/Offline Mac Dunlop: Illiterature Scott Rettberg: Kind of Blue
24.00	Bar closes

Wednesday 14th July 2004
08.00-09.00	Breakfast
09.00-10.00	Registration open
09.30	Poetry Society Panel Chair: Jane Draycott Andrea Brady: Speed, Source, Space: How to Get Public Peter Howard: Subatomic and Particle Poetry Redell Olsen: Re-Wiring Writing: Poetry and New Media
10.45	The World Premiere of The Breathing Wall Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph
11.15	Refreshments
11.45	Chair Lawrence Upton From Concrete Poetry to Digital Poetics: links, crossovers, distances Marcus Bastos: A semiotic of writing :: analysis of visual, sound and digital literature Giselle Beiguelman: Interfaces of Multimedia Literature (presented in her absence by Marcus Bastos) Lucia Santaella: From concrete to digital poetry :: analysis of examples
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Hyperslam - Open Mike An informal after-lunch session to present your work as an impromptu live performance (with access to the web) Chair Helen Whitehead	The Breathing Wall interactive session: Come along and try the breathing software demonstrated by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph in the morning session
15.00	Archiving New Media 1 Origins - the early computer arts in the UK Paul Brown presents the CACHe project, investigating the early days of the computer arts in the UK from their origins in the 1960s to the 1980s
15.45	Archiving New Media 2 Chair Sue Thomas Panel Discussion with Paul Brown, Alan Sondheim, Rob Kendall and others
16.30	Thanks
16.45	Symposium Ends
Evening	Steve Gibson: Virtual DJ VIRTUAL DJ uses the tracking capabilities of the Gesture and Media System, invented by Acoustic Positioning Research, to allow one or more users to use space as an audio remix or performance tool. Users literally wave their arms, and as if by magic new audio loops are accessed, synthesizer filters are open and closed, samples are played, and drum loops are started and stopped. In addition robot lights follow the users, dynamically changing in relation to their position and the audio.