Ctrl-Z
- Writing in the Age of New Media
Presented by the Centre for Culture & Technology (CCAT) @ Curtin University and Fremantle Arts Centre
In the age of personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter, Word, Photoshop, SMS, email, desktop- and e-publishing, blogging and fan fiction, autocorrect and track changes, who - or what - is a writer?
Ctrl-Z is an arts symposium aimed at exploring the possibilities of writing in the age of new media. While the means and opportunities for writing are seemingly forever multiplying, can the same be said for the ways in which we think about what we call 'writing', or what we call 'a writer'? How, today, does writing take shape: how is it produced, published, distributed and read? How might we account for cultural anxieties over the ill-effects or improper uses of new writing technologies (illiteracy, plagiarism, piracy, cyberbullying), and how might we imagine new ways of thinking about creativity, technology and communication?
Featuring panel discussions, video screenings, exhibitions, live music and more, Ctrl-Z will appeal to anyone with a professional or personal interest in writing as a cultural and communicative practice - from humanities academics, postgraduates and English and Media teachers to authors, artists and creative media practitioners; from arts patrons to general readers. Cutting across academic, professional and public divides, Ctrl-Z will present an engaging and entertaining occasion to reflect on what it means - now - to write and to be a writer.
Sat 19 November 12:30-6:00pm
@ Fremantle Arts Centre
Bar Open
Canapes Provided
Tickets:
$20 in advance from FAC
$25 on the day (subject to availability)
Artworks by Benjamin Forster
Live Music by The Morning Night
& special guests
The Morning Night
Program
(Bar open all day)
1:00-1:15 - Opening address
Welcome and introduction from event organisers, Niall Lucy and Robert Briggs
1:15-2:00 - Writing media
Panel discussion on the nature of authorship, art and creativity, and the history of writing technologies - Darrent Tofts, Catharine Lumby, Niall Lucy, Mark Amerika
2:00-2:30 - Writing freely
Free time to interact with participants and attendees, to peruse exhibitions, and to view screenings of pre-recorded interviews and commentary from ‘absent’ contributors, including McKenzie Wark and John Kinsella
2:30-3:15 - Writing anxieties
Panel discussion on moral panics over the impact of new technologies on a range of writing and social practices - Catharine Lumby, Tama Leaver, Suvendi Perera, Robert Briggs
3:15-3:45 - Writing freely
Free time to interact with participants and attendees, to peruse exhibitions, and to view screenings of pre-recorded interviews and commentary from ‘absent’ contributors, including McKenzie Wark and John Kinsella
3:45-4:30 - Writing readers
Panel discussion on new media publishing opportunities and challenges and the role of ‘the reading public’ in the production of writing - Georgia Richter, Anne Surma, Darren Tofts, Mark Amerika
4:30-5:30 - Writing entertainment
Complementary canapes and music by The Morning Night
