Programme details

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In this password-protected version of our programme, accessed only by conference delegates, you will find papers, presentations, audio and videos offered by many of our speakers for you to look at in advance of their panels. We want MIX 2021 to focus on conversations between our speakers and our audience so please take a look and get your questions ready for the Q&As.

You can find the full programme on our website.

Zoom links for all sessions will be added below each session description.

Note: the timezone for this conference is GMT+1 (London).

Monday 5 Jul 2021

10:00 – 10:30

Opening

Join Professors Kate Pullinger and Lucy English, co-chairs of MIX, as we welcome you to the conference and give you all the information you will need.


10:30 – 11:30

Keynote: Caleb Parkin – Being Animals Through Machines: Mole-Rats to Murmurations

This keynote, reflecting on what we keep, what we ditch, which needs are met and which are not from a year-and-a-bit of being mediated through screens, will be a mix of personal, creative reflection, approachable quotes and playful invitations to participate.

Recording link


11:30 – 11:45 

Break/ Networking on Wonder


11:45 – 13:00

Panel 1: Audience Engagement Beyond The Boundaries:  Re-Shaping Storytelling for Inclusion

Grace Quantock, Linus Harrison and Shirish Kulkarni

This panel explores underrepresented aspects of inclusion in storytelling; trauma-informed working, visual thinking and how we formulate news storytelling as a whole. Each speaker will present for 15 minutes and there will be a short audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Grace Quantock
Paper/presentation by Linus Harrison
Paper/presentation by Shirish Kulkarni

Recording link


Panel 2: Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET)

Naomi Smyth, Matt Freeman and Coral Manton

Based within the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries at Bath Spa University, the Narrative and Emerging Technologies Lab (NET) explores the role of emerging technologies in developing new forms of experiential storytelling and audience engagement. In this panel, three of its members will share their research. Each speaker will present for 15 minutes and there will be a short audience Q&A.

Recording link


13:00 – 14:00

Break/ Networking on Wonder


14:00 – 15:15

Panel 3: Rabbit Holes Collective

James Cook, Ian Forrester, Mitch Turnbull and Dr Penny Hay

Rabbit Holes Collective involves a group of artists and creative professionals exploring adaptive podcasting to create unique content and invite (especially young) people to metaphorically ‘fall down a rabbit hole’ to connect more deeply with nature. This panel will involve colleagues from both a traditional audio background and those with a background in interaction and creative practice.

Paper/presentation by Dr. Penny Hay
Paper/presentation by Dr. Penny Hay, Ian Forrester and James Cook

Recording link


14:00 – 15:15

Panel 4: The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps: A Case Study for Combined Storytelling in a Theatre Play and Virtual Reality

Matthew Linley, Murray Lachlan Young, Leo Kellgren-Parker, Sarah Fortescue, Prof Paul Hibbard, Dr Loes Van Dam, Nina Hajiyianni and Dr Abigail L M Webb

The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps is a poem by Murray Lachlan Young/Funnelwick Limb, aimed at audiences of all ages, including both children and adults. This poem has been adapted as a theatre play with a short prequel as a Virtual Reality (VR) / tablet app.

In a pre-recorded panel discussion and live Q&A, members of the project teams, artists, creatives, funders, commissioners and academics will discuss the project and its context.

Pre-recorded panel


15:15 – 15:30

Break/ Networking on Wonder 


15:30 – 16:45

Panel 5: Reflections on Immersive Audio Storytelling

Ralph Hoyte, Lissa Holloway-Attaway and Jamie Fawcus and Mary McDonald

This panel brings together three practice-led presentations, which reflect on an approach to the artistic and dramatic applications of augmented soundscape-making, an exploration of what it means to inhabit, discover and become an insect body, an effective mediator transcribing experience from a place of distributed non-human identity and polyphonic narratives of shared experiences.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Ralph Hoyte
Paper/presentation by Lissa Holloway-Attaway and Jamie Fawcus
Paper/presentation by Mary McDonald

Recording link


15:30 – 16:45

Panel 6: Experimental Stories

Kat Mustatea, Lynda Clark and Rachel Genn

This panel reflects on the process of creating experimental digital stories; from creating an experimental digital performance, a creative exploration of our relationships and interactions with virtual assistants and early conversational systems to the making of a work combining testimony, fashion and photogrammetry/360 filming to explore POV.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Kat Mustatea
Paper/presentation by Lynda Clark
Paper/presentation by Rachel Genn

Recording link


16:45 – 17:00

Break/ Networking on Wonder 


17:00 – 18:00

Welcome by John Strachan (Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Bath Spa University)

Keynote: World Building For the 21st Century

Annie Reid

This keynote focuses on how to approach worldbuilding in a truly inclusive that ethically reflects our complex realities – even in a completely imaginary world.

Recording link


18:00 – 18.30 Break/ Networking on Wonder 


18:30 – 19:30

Screening: Amplified Voices: A Poetry Film Curation by Adrian B. Earle from Think/Write/Fly and Sarah Tremlett from Liberated Words

In this curation, Adrian B. Earle and Sarah Tremlett have chosen a selection of poetry films that showcase unusual or different approaches to creation and/or less represented voices. They will discuss their selection with Lucy English and explore the theme of ‘Amplified Voices’ and show short clips.

For links to the complete poetry films and further information about each one please go to the Poetry Film Brochure. It would be advisable to view the complete films BEFORE watching the discussion.

Complete poetry films
Film link


19:30 – 20:30

Q&A: After the Poetry Film screening, Sarah Tremlett and Adrian B. Earle will answer your questions on their curation of poetry films.

Recording link

Tuesday 6 Jul 2021

10:00 – 10:15

Opening

Join Professors Kate Pullinger and Lucy English, co-chairs of MIX, as we welcome you to the second day of the conference and give you all the information you will need.


10:15 – 11:30

Panel 7: Storytelling Technologies

Guy Gadney, Harmeet Chagger-Khan and Mez Breeze

This panel examines innovations in storytelling technologies as panelists explore adapting stories in games engines, explore how resilience can be cultivated through storytelling and the potential for the use of Reality Layering in electronic literature.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Harmeet Chagger-Khan
Paper/presentation by Guy Gadney
Paper/presentation by Mez Breeze

Recording link


10:15 – 11:30

Panel 8: Writing for Young Audiences

Christine Chong, Gavin Inglis and Rebecca Rouse

Panelists reflect on the process of making stories for young people using various technologies, including a site specific, choose-your-own-path story, a dynamic soundtrack to a short story that uses a web interface inspired by club DJ tools and a moveable book that uses paper engineering structures.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Christine Chong
Paper/presentation by Rebecca Rouse
Paper/presentation by Gavin Inglis

Recording link


11:30 – 11:45 Break/ Networking on Wonder


11:45 – 13:00

Panel 9: Audio and Audiences

Michael Armstrong and Maxine Glancy, Tim Kindberg and Lily Green

This panel includes an exploration of the relationship between creator and audience in innovative audio works by members of the BBC R&D team and insights from the Grapevine team who ask what if authors, artists and audiences could leverage the power of global messaging apps to massively amplify the cultural and linguistic diversity of the stories they tell and listen to around the world.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Michael Armstrong and Maxine Glancy
Paper/presentation by Tim Kindberg and Lily Green

Recording link


11:45 – 13:00

Panel 10: Amplified Publishing

The Amplified Publishing pathfinder, as part of Bristol & Bath Creative R+D, explores future models of content creation, discovery and distribution. Join one of its academic fellows, inclusion fellow and researcher as they present their emerging research into digital innovation in publishing.

Each speaker will present for 15 minutes and there will be a short audience Q&A.

Recording link


13:00 – 14:00 Break/ Networking on Wonder


14:00 – 15:15

Panel 11: Audio Experimentation

Dylan Spicer, Peter Hebden and Kate Sweeney, Maya Chowdhry and Sarah Hymas

This panel gives a practice-led look at how audio can be used in digital narratives; from how it can amplify a sense of realism and place, explore the interplay between digital and physical space and how it can include augmented reality in a process of co-worlding between artist, writer, walker, weather, shore, sea and other incidental encounters.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Peter Hebden and Kate Sweeney
Paper/presentation by Dylan Spicer
Paper/presentation by Sarah Hymas and Maya Chowdhry

Recording link


14:00 – 15:15

Panel 12: Co-creation and co-creators

Franci Greyling and Gustaff Tempelhoff, Dr Christine Wilks and Dr Sarah Gibson Yates

This panel examines the processes of accessibility, creativity and co-creation across issues of disability, body image and diversity.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Christine Wilks
Paper/presentation by Franci Greyling and Gustaf Tempelhoff
Paper/presentation by Sarah Gibson-Yates

Recording link


15:15 – 15:30 Break/ Networking on Wonder 


15:30 – 16:30

Keynote: An Interview with Sharmaine Lovegrove

In this pre-recorded keynote, Professor Kate Pullinger interviews Sharmaine Lovegrove from Dialogue Books about digital innovation in publishing.

Pre-recorded Keynote link


16:30 – 16:45 Break/ Networking on Wonder 


16:45 – 18:00

Panel 13: Cyborgs Crafting for Cyborgs: Digital Creators and Our Audiences

Lyle Skains, Stuart Moulthrop and Jeneen Naji

This panel explores how the Internet and its digital tools and platforms continue to provide inspiration, niches, and audiences for the wildflowers of digital creativity.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by R. Lyle Skains
Paper/presentation by Stuart Moulthrop
Paper/presentation by Jeneen Naji

Recording link


16:45 – 18:00

Panel 14: Beyond the Book

Lucy Telling, Lucy Christopher and Rajiv Edwards and Melanie Frances

This panel showcases the Beyond the Book project, developed by creative writing incubator Paper Nations to support writers in the South-West of the UK to produce creative writing-based projects for smartphones.

Each speaker will present for 15 minutes and there will be a short audience Q&A.

Recording link


18:00 – 18:15 Break/ Networking on Wonder 


18:15 – 19:30

Panel 15: New Immersive Perspectives

Dr John T. Murray and Mark C. Marino, Rebecca Rouse and Lissa Holloway-Attaway

This panel addresses the use of VR audio in interactive narrative experiences and the role of audio technologies in connection with the codex across a range of time periods and forms, to develop a nuanced understanding of audio, affect, augmented reality and the reading experience.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Paper/presentation by Dr. John T. Murray and Mark C. Marino
Paper/presentation by Rebecca Rouse and Lissa Holloway-Attaway
Paper/presentation by Rebecca Rouse and Lissa Holloway-Attaway (audio)

Recording link


18:15 – 19:30

Panel 16: Publishing and Pedagogy

Fresco Sam-Sin and Erwin Verbruggen, Jillian Abbott (with Shaquille Profitt and Autumn Matthews), Hannah McGregor and Stacey Copeland

This panel explores how innovative and inclusive publishing can support student learning and the dissemination of research.

Take a look at the following in advance of the panel. Each speaker will summarise their research or practice and there will be an extended audience Q&A.

Presentation by Fresco Sam Sin and Erwin Verbruggen
Paper/presentation by Hannah McGregor Stacey Copeland (audio)
Paper/presentation by Hannah McGregor and Stacey Copeland (transcript)
Paper/presentation by Jillian Abbott
Film by Shaquille Profitt and Autumn Matthews
Film by Hastride Edouard

Recording link 


19:30 – 19:45 Break/ Networking on Wonder


19:45 – 20:45

Keynote: How Writers Get Paid: Book Pirates, Millennial Readers, and Discovery Post-Pandemic

Kathi Inman Berens

In this keynote, Kathi Inman Berens (Portland State University) asks how authors can tap into new audiences and facilitate discovery of their work, including how they can begin to understand book “pirates,” understand millennial readers and experiment with e-literature.

Recording link (includes Keynote and Plenary)


20:45 – 21:00

Plenary 

Join Professors Kate Pullinger and Lucy English, co-chairs of MIX, for the final event of the conference where we will wrap up the last two days.

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