[spectre] MULTIMEDIA HISTORIES

[Oliver Grau]

MULTIMEDIA HISTORIES: FROM THE MAGIC LANTERN TO THE INTERNET 
	21-23 JULY 2003 @ UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK. 

Plenary Speakers: 
Professor William Boddy (CUNY) 
Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London) 
Professor Richard Grusin (Wayne State) 
Dr Roberta Pearson (University of Wales, Cardiff) 

One of the most dominant critical concerns of recent years has
been the attempt to understand the impact of a multimedia culture. Its
scope and limits have become associated with issues of virtual reality; 
interactivity; media convergence and hybridity; body/technology
couplings, etc. These familiar narratives, however, have a much more
extended history than is often realised. 

Multimedia Histories will examine the long genealogy of multimedia usage
and discourse. 
>From the 19th C onwards, the proliferation of
screen technologies and optical  recreations has been an important
element of popular culture. The mid nineteenth-century drawing room, for
example, typically included stereoscopes and praxinoscopes alongside the
magic lantern. 

The conference aims to locate the aesthetics of the new media in
relation to an intermedial tradition of public and  domestic forms of
screen entertainment. The principal question it hopes to address is
this - to what extent do  recent multimedia technologies extend
established features of cinema, television, and the panoply of 19th C and
20th C
optical recreations? 

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	Paul St George 
	Senior Lecturer in Multimedia 
	London Metropolitan University 
	Room JS91, 31 Jewry Street, London, EC3N 2EY 
	Fax: +44 (0) 207 320 3009 

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