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MelbourneDAC Preliminary Program ver. 1.0 (GM) April 24 2003 - subject to change |
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| Monday May 19 2003 | ||
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Registration | FOYER |
| CHANGED 08:55 - 11:00 | Session: Mon-1 | RM: Auditorium |
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Hon. Marsha Thomson Minister for Information and Communication Technology |
Official Welcome | |
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Mikael Jakobsson, T.L. Taylor Umeå University .se North Carolina State University .us |
"Sopranos" Meets "Everquest": Socialization Processes in Massively Multiuser Games :: abstract :: |
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Lisbeth Klastrup IT University of Copenhagen .dk |
A Poetics of Virtual Worlds :: abstract :: |
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John Banks University of Queensland .au |
Negotiating Participatory Culture in the New Media Environment: Auran and the Trainz Online Community :: abstract :: |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Morning Tea | FOYER |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session: Mon2A | RM One |
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Bernadette Flynn Griffith University .au |
Languages of navigation within computer games :: abstract :: |
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Mark McGuire University of Otago .nz |
PlayStation 2: Selling the Third Place :: abstract :: |
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Stefan Greuter, Jeremy Parker, Nigel Stewart, Geoff Leach RMIT .au |
Undiscovered Worlds - Towards a Real Time Procedural World Generation Framework :: abstract :: |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session: Mon2B | RM: Two |
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Janez Strehovec University of Ljubljana .si |
Text as a Loop: On the Aesthetics of Kinetic Poetry Objects :: abstract :: |
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Jim Bizzocchi Simon Fraser University .ca |
"Ceremony of Innocence" and the Subversion of Interface: Cursor Transformation as a Narrative Device :: abstract :: |
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Susan Ballard Otago Polytechnic .nz |
Flickering Affects :: abstract :: |
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| 12:30 - 13:30 | Session Mon3A | RM: One |
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Mary Flanagan University of Oregon .us |
SIMple and Personal: Domestic Spaces and The Sims :: abstract :: |
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Simon Ryan, Brett Nicholls University of Otago .nz |
Game, Space and the Geopolitics of Simulation :: abstract :: |
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Anne Mette Thorhauge University of Copenhagen .dk |
Player, Reader, or Social Actor?: How to Conceptualise the New Sort Participant Within the Field of Computer Games :: abstract :: |
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| CHANGED 12:30 - 13:30 | Session Mon3B | RM: Two |
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Eugenie Shinkle University of Westminster .uk |
Gardens, Games, and the Anamorphic Subject: Tracing the Body in the Virtual Landscape :: abstract :: |
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel .be |
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Christina McPhee California Polytechnic State University .us |
Aphasia/Parrhesia: Code and Speech in the Neural Topologies of the Net :: abstract :: |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | FOYER |
| CHANGED 14:30 - 16:00 | Session Mon4A | RM: Auditorium |
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Gregory More, Lawrence Harvey, Jules Moloney, Mark Burry RMIT .au RMIT .au University of Auckland .nz RMIT .au |
Implementing Nonlinear Sound Strategies within Spatial Design :: abstract :: |
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Nanette Carter Swinburne University of Technology .au |
Dot Shops :: abstract :: |
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| 17:30 - 21:00 | Welcoming Reception. Australian Centre for the Moving Image. | |
| Tuesday May 20 2003 | ||
| 08:30 - 08:55 | Registration | FOYER |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session Tue1 | RM: Auditorium |
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Keith Armstrong Queensland University of Technology .au |
Towards an Ecosophical Praxis of Media Space Design :: abstract :: |
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Dan Fleming University of Ulster .uk |
Hypertext and Empire :: abstract :: |
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Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop University of Pennsylvania .us University of Baltimore .us |
Face It, Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot: Reading and Playing Cadre's Varicella :: abstract :: |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Tea | FOYER |
| CHANGED 11:00 - 12:00 | Session Tue2A | RM: One |
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Darshana Jayemanne University of Melbourne .au |
Spielraum: Games, Art and Cyberspace :: abstract :: |
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University of California .us |
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Caroline McCaw University of Otago .nz |
Place as a Pattern of Stories :: abstract :: |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session Tue2B | RM: Two |
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Deena Larsen Independent scholar .us |
Dancing in a Language Maze: Understanding the Mind-states and Trinary Logic/Language of Glide :: abstract :: |
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truna Queensland University of Technology .au |
Betwixt and Between: a Mixed Media Expose of the Epistemologies of Cyberspaces and Beyond Places :: abstract :: |
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Diana Reed Slattery Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .us |
From Interface to Interspace: LiveGlide and the 3rd Dimension :: abstract :: |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Session Tue3A | RM: One |
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Teri Hoskin University of South Australia .au |
Pricklings: Appearance :: abstract :: |
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Noah Wardrip-Fruin Brown University .us |
From Instrumental Texts to Textual Instruments :: abstract :: |
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Daniel Pargman Royal Institute of Technology .se |
From Word and Code to Code as World :: abstract :: |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Session Tue3B | RM: Two |
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William Gillespie Independent scholar .us |
Drugs, Machines, and Friendships: Cybertext, Collaboration, and the Beatles :: abstract :: |
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Dene Grigar, John Barber Texas Womens University .us University of Texas Dallas .us |
Media Translation and the Online _Brautigan Bibliography :: abstract :: |
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Robert Kendall Electronic Literature Organization .us |
Charting the Frontier: The Electronic Literature Directory :: abstract :: |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | FOYER |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session Tue4 | RM: Auditorium |
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Jane McGonigal University of California at Berkely .us |
This Is Not a Game: Immersive Aesthetics and Collective Play :: abstract :: |
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Andrew Hutchison Curtin University .au |
Analysing the Performative Function in Interactive Narrative :: abstract :: |
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Tiffany Holmes Art Institute of Chicago .us |
Feminist art games: New media meets the American arcade :: abstract :: |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon Tea | FOYER |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session Tue5 | RM: Auditorium |
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Jill Walker University of Bergen .no |
Performing Fictions: Interaction and Depiction :: abstract :: |
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Susana Pajares Tosca IT University of Copenhagen .dk |
Reading "Resident Evil-Code Veronica X" :: abstract :: |
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Ben Hourigan University of Melbourne .au |
Videotopia: Utopia and Utopianism in Role-Playing Videogames :: abstract :: |
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| 17:30 - 18:30 | Session Tue6A | RM: One |
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Mike Leggett, Chris Bowman, Jacqueline Gothe, Daniel Ireland University of Technology Sydney .au |
Panel: Interface Design and Visual Indexing :: abstract :: |
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| 17:30 - 18:30 | Session: Tue6B | RM: Two |
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Robert Kendall, Rob Swigart, Nick Montfort Electronic Literature Organization Writer University of Pennsylvania .us |
Panel: Whatever It Takes: The New Media Editor :: abstract :: |
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| 21:00 - | Venue TBC | |
| Various | MelbourneDAC Big Night Out Performance Night | |
| Wednesday May 21st | ||
| DAC Day Out | Session: Wed1 | |
| 09:00 | Meet outside RMIT Latrobe St | |
| 09:15 | Leave for Yarra Valley | |
| 18:00 approx | Return to RMIT | |
| Thursday May 22nd | ||
| 08:30 - 08:55 | Registration | FOYER |
| CHANGED 09:00 - 10:30 | Session Thu1 | RM: Auditorium |
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Andrew Murphie University of New South Wales .au |
Electronicas :: abstract :: |
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Julian Holland Oliver Selectparks .au |
Developers in Exile: Why Independent Game Development Needs an Island :: abstract :: |
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Hanne-Lovise Skartveit, Magnhild Viste University of Bergen .no |
System Dynamics as Story Engine for Interactive Video :: abstract :: |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Tea | FOYER |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session Thu2A | RM: One |
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Thomas A. Porter University of Queensland .au |
An Exploration of Espen Aarseth's Taxonomy :: abstract :: |
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Stockholm School of Economics; Stockholm University .se |
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Patrick Crogan University of Technology Sydney .au |
The Man in the Middle: The Experience of Information in Computer Games :: abstract :: |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session Thu2B | RM: Two |
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Jeremy Yuille RMIT .au |
Real-Time::Sonic Performance in-Game :: abstract :: |
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Laetitia Wilson University of Western Australia .au |
Interactivity or Interpassivity: A Question of Agency in Digital Play :: abstract :: |
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Caleb Stuart University of Canberra .au |
The Object of Performance: Aural Performitivity and Live Laptop Sound :: abstract :: |
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| CHANGED 12:00 - 13:00 | Session Thu3A | RM: One |
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Aleksandra Dulic Simon Fraser University .ca Kenneth Newby Simon Fraser University |
Towards Process Cinema: HeteroForm in New Media Composition :: abstract :: |
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Nitzan Ben-Shaul Tel Aviv University .il |
Split Attention problems in Interactive Moving Audio-visual Texts :: abstract :: |
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Artist .be |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Session Thu3B | RM: Two |
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Lone Malmborg Malm University .se |
The Role of Art and Design in IT-Education at the Digital Bauhaus :: abstract :: |
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Mike Leggett University of Technology Sydney .au |
PathScapes - Interface Design and Visual Indexing :: abstract :: |
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David Cameron, John Carroll Charles Sturt University .au |
To the Spice Islands: An interactive performance project :: abstract :: |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | FOYER |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session Thu4 | RM: Auditorium |
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Anna Munster University of New South Wales .au |
Compression and the Intensification of Information in Flash Animation :: abstract :: |
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Troy Innocent Monash University .au |
Exploring the nature of electronic space through semiotic morphism. :: abstract :: |
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Ned Rossiter Monash University .au |
Processual Media Theory :: abstract :: |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon Tea | FOYER |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session Thu5 | RM: Auditorium |
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Espen Aarseth University of Bergen .no |
Playing Research: Methodological Approaches to Game Analysis :: abstract :: |
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Daniel Palmer University of Melbourne .au |
The Paradox of User Control :: abstract :: |
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Richard Brown Melbourne University .au |
Alchemy, Mimetics, Immersion and Consciousness :: abstract :: |
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| 17:30 - 18:30 | Session Thu6A | RM: One |
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Jayne Fenton Keane Griffith University .au |
Clicklit | Cinelit & the Invisible Hand <skinborgs & poetmachines> :: abstract :: |
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Christiane Robbins University of Southern California .us |
Blue Screen _ Moto :: abstract :: |
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Sybil Nolan RMIT .au |
Journalism Online: the Search for Narrative Form in a Multilinear World :: abstract :: |
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| 17:30 - 18:30 | Session Thu6B | RM: Two |
| Panel TBA. | ||
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner, Kri Kri. | |
| Friday May 23rd | ||
| 10:00 - 15:00 | Session Fri1 | |
| Panel Sessions: TBC | Experimedia: State Library of Victoria | |
| Artists Sessions: TBC | Experimedia: State Library of Victoria | |
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adrian miles adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au conference chair
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