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<DIV dir=ltr align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">THE CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES
PRESENTS</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Professor Thomas
Swiss</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">University</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT
size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> of Iowa -
USA</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">New Media Literature and Art: A
Writer’s Perspective</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Date:
Tuesday 9<SUP>th</SUP> August 2005</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Place:
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room</SPAN></FONT></P>
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Duhig Building, Building No. 2</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">University of
Queensland</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">, <A
href="http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&x=j.06&y=6.1883116883117&z=1&xc%5b%5d=&yc%5b%5d=&id=&facilityType=&backURL=&mx=252&my=122&mapcoord=?204,149">St
Lucia Campus</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Time:
2.00pm-3.30pm</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Members of the university community and the general
public are invited to attend this free seminar with refreshments to
follow.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please scroll down for further information or visit the
website at <A
href="http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=28498&pid=16094">http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=28498&pid=16094</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">ABSTRACT</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The aims of this
seminar/presentation are to discuss the possibilities for literature offered by
the electronic convergence of words, images, and sound, with an initial focus on
the work of the presenter; explore the changing contexts in which literature is
produced and consumed as a result of new media environments; and showcase a
series of visually interesting, aurally charged, and dynamic examples of this
kind of writing.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=Section1><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">In taking up these
topics through employing new media works as my tutor texts, I will consider some
of the ways in which new media literature reconfigures the field of literature
and literary practices.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=Section1><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The seminar begins from
the assumption that "New Media Literature" like "Literature" is a
conversation-among writers and professional critics, writers and other writers,
writers and programmers, sound artists, and graphic designers, writers and their
non-professional readers, writers and publishers, publishers and their
investors, grant-giving agencies, universities, even governments.
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<P class=Section1><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">This conversation is
dispersed throughout many textual and institutional sites, not simply in texts
already recognizable as literature. I will foreground the "social form" of
literature as a genre, with special emphasis on new media literature as it makes
a place for itself among writers, readers, and scholars. The social form of new
media literature includes, among other overlapping elements, its relationship to
literature's historical practices and meanings; the interpretations it invites
from its reader</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">s;</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> its uneasy
fit in institutions like the university and museums; and its evolving material
presentations</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">ABOUT THE
PRESENTER</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://thomasswiss.com">Thom Swiss</A> is
Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the <A
href="http://www.english.uiowa.edu/faculty/swiss/">University of Iowa</A>, the
editor of <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm">The Iowa Review
Web</A></FONT></I></EM>, a journal for digital and experimental writing and art,
and President of the <A href="http://www.eliterature.org/index.php">Electronic
Literature Organization</A>. His recent writing and teaching focus on the
interplay of digital texts, the institutions that support and promote them, and
the emerging audiences that respond to them. His books include <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Unspun</FONT></I></EM> (NYU Press), an edited volume that
explores concepts that help shape our understanding of the World Wide Web and
its wide-ranging influence on contemporary culture, <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Magic, Metaphor and Power: Cultural Theory and the World
Wide Web</FONT></I></EM> (Routledge) and <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary
Theory</FONT></I></EM> (Blackwell). With Dee Morris, he is currently
co-editing a book for the MIT Press titled <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">New Media Poetics</FONT></I></EM> (2005). His
collaborative New Media poems appear on-line in such journals as <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Postmodern Culture</FONT></I></EM> and <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/">electronic book
review</A></FONT></I></EM>, as well as in museum exhibits and <A
href="http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/swiss/exhibitions.htm">art shows</A>. His
books of poetry include <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f97/swiss.html">Rough
Cut</A></FONT></I></EM> (U.of Illinois), <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Measure</FONT></I></EM> (U. Alabama).</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For further information, please
contact:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Ms Rebecca Ralph, Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Ph. (07) 3346 9764 Fax (07) 3365
7184</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Email: <A
href="mailto:admin.cccs@uq.edu.au">admin.cccs@uq.edu.au</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
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