“Due to copyright restrictions the digital collection is only fully accessible from computers on the UCLA campus.”
“A library of 8.7 million digital volumes. A trove of 100,000 ocean-science photos. An archive of 57,000 Mexican-music recordings.”
The paper I presented on May 24 2011 at the “Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction” at Birkbeck College, London.
Brief reports from the International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies at the University of Liverpool and “Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction” at Birkbeck College, London.
The day should one day arrive when every home will have its own machine to produce a newspaper, beamed in through television or telephone circuits, and when the only publications left on news-stands will be magazines and paperbacks.
The future is in fact full of exciting possibilities for the visual arts. The time could come —the signs are already apparent— when the traditional overdominance of the printed word in European culture will collapse. With ever-increasing exposure to visual stimuli and a heightening appreciation of them, the devaluation of pictures, moving or still, to low-grade pulp for the masses on the one hand and an art so esoteric that only an elect few can understand it on the other, can be reversed.
With their ingenuity and style, and above all their rich variety of fantasy, the comic strips will have a place in the brave new world.
-George Perry, “Always a Place for Comics,” 1967
” —Quote included in my PhD dissertation, Priego, Ernesto (2010) The Comic Book in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Information Studies, University College London)“You know, the punches were real, and the anger was real, and we’d chase each other up and down fire escapes, over rooftops, and we’d climb across clotheslines, and there were real injuries.”
When? Tuesday 24th May 2011 6-9 pm
Where? Birkbeck, School of Arts, Room B03, 43 Gordon Square
The papers will be collected for a special issue of postgraduate journal Dandelion, On Brevity, for autumn publication, and the discussion will be recorded for podcasting.
Chair for papers: Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck)
Papers - Henderson Downing (Birkbeck); Holly Pester (Birkbeck); Ernesto Priego (UCL); Daniel Rourke (Goldsmiths); Matt Sangster (Royal Holloway)
Chair for panel: Ariel Kahn (Roehampton/London Met Film School)
Speakers - Andy Poyiadgi (film-maker, Schizofredric); Tom Humberstone (comics artist/editor, Solipsistic Pop); Heidi James(writer, Carbon, The Mesmerist’s Daughter); Geoff Ryman, 253, Air).
Organised by: Zara Dinnen and Tony Venezia - Contemporary Fiction Seminar
Here’s a provisional running order for the short papers…
Matthew Sangster:Short Forms and Unalloyed Genre
Henderson Downing: Between the long roll of thunder and the long fine flash: a brief history of a little pamphlet bought from a pop-up shop on Redchurch Street in December 2010 on the shortest day of the year.
Holly Pester: Visual Poetry: Objectness as a Necessary Shortness
Ernesto Priego: Beyond [Adobe] Flash™: Webcomics as Short Digital NarrativesDaniel Rourke: The Doctrine of the Similar(GIF GIF GIF)
“An attempt to figure out who the most important players and innovators are in the evolution of journalism — and to provide a centralized source for background, context, and the latest news about them.”
Ubiquity is the Association of Computer Machinery’s peer-reviewed Web-based magazine.
Full report available on PDF.
24th May 2011, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London…
Who would have thought that some ideas I originally formulated in my MA thesis (UEA 2003) would find a new life elsewhere, online, 8 years later?
“We are going to rescue your shit”.
Vol 12 (2011), edited by Federica Frabetti
