[spectre] MINDPLAY registration now open!

[Michaela Reiser]

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The Group for Research in Interactive Media at London Metropolitan University
presents "MINDPLAY", a one day conference on digital media theory, culture, practice and play

Friday, 20th January 2006

London Metropolitan University
Shoreditch Building
35 Kingsland Rd
London, E2 8AA

Mindplay will focus on our experience of both mindful and playful human-digital relationships, and
explore our interaction and engagement with new digital media environments including those
involving mobile and ubiquitous media, new cinema, gameplay, wired spaces, and networked
communities.

Conference update :

We are pleased to announce that registration to Mindplay is now open.

Mindplay will deliver a rich and exciting programme of presentations of practice-led research,
posters, academic papers, demonstrations, activities as well as an exhibition of interactive
installations. The provisional conference programme listing presenters and titles can now  be
viewed online at http://www.mindplay.org.uk/programme.htm  A separate list of interactive
installations will be published nearer the time.

We are also pleased to announce that Jon Dovey, Reader in Screen Media at Bristol University  will
present the opening keynote address. Jon is co-author of a forthcoming book on Game Culture due to
be published by the Open University Press in 2006. Dr Charles Kriel will be presenting the closing
speech. Charles is the UN WSIS National Expert on Digital Media for the UK. For the last five
years, he served as BBC Radio 1's Resident Artist.

For conference registration please go to http://www.mindplay.org.uk/registration.htm, or see the
further details at the end of this message. We encourage you to register early as places are
limited.

We look forward to seeing you in January
With best wishes from

The Mindplay Team
http://www.mindplay.org.uk
email: enquiries at mindplay.org.uk

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Conference themes:

- Plug-and-Play: emerging mobile technologies, download culture, wireless, portable, mobile and
ubiquitous media

- Record-Stop-Play: digital video production, interactive movies, new cinema, the digital moving
picture experience

- The Smart Player: game-based learning, web games in marketing, adult gaming, game audiences,
digitally enhanced play

- Playtime: responsive environments, wired spaces, digital-human relationships, ubiquitous media

- Let Us Play: community projects, peer networks, digital media audiences, online communities

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Registration Details:

Full fee: £65 (delegates and presenters)

Discount fee: £25 (full-time PhD students, LondonMet staff, unwaged)

Registration fee includes: attendance at the one day conference, conference documentation
(programme etc.), coffee and refreshments during the conference, lunch, free entry to exhibition
of interactive installations and evening event.

To register, please visit http://www.mindplay.org.uk/register.htm
or phone Lis Maimaris on +44 (0) 20 7133 5174.

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Conference Sponsors:
MetroNewMedia - Training consultants, London
The Community College - Shoreditch, London

Conference Organisers:
Group for Research in Interactive Media – Core Group: Michelle Duxbury, Che Guevara John, Dr.
Charles Kriel, Chris Lane, Elena Moschini, Pat Power, Michaela Reiser.  Advisory Panel: Dr. Anna
Gough-Yates, Dr. Paul Cobley, Dr. Lewis Jones, Dr. Bill Osgerby, Dr Mike King, all based at London
Metropolitan University.