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Please send this message through to your Melbourne networks.<BR>
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Writers and their works in a virtual space: trope-promoting new writing in Second Life<BR>
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trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The panel features trope's creators alongside the Melbourne-based writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the dynamics of this intersection between literature and new media and the poetic possibilities of virtual spaces. <BR>
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This panel is sponsored by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.<BR>
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Chair: Bel Schenk<BR>
Participants: Cristyn Davies, Elena Knox, Sarah Waterson, Matt Hetherington and Alicia Sometimes.<BR>
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Trope Team<BR>
Editor and co-curator of trope texts: Cristyn Davies<BR>
Conceptual approach, design and implementation: Sarah Waterson<BR>
Co-curator of trope texts, sonic topography, conceptual design: Elena Knox <BR>
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www.trope.net.au<BR>
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With implementation support from The Project Factory.<BR>
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When<BR>
Thursday, 28th August 2008<BR>
7.00-9.00 pm<BR>
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Where<BR>
ACMI Cinema 1<BR>
Australian Centre for the Moving Image<BR>
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne<BR>
Victoria, Australia<BR>
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trope has received support from:<BR>
the Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts<BR>
The School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney<BR>
The Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy research node, University of Western Sydney<BR>
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Cristyn Davies<BR>
Justice of the Peace for NSW<BR>
Researcher<BR>
Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy research node<BR>
University of Western Sydney-<BR>
Bankstown campus<BR>
Locked Bag 1797<BR>
Penrith South DC<BR>
NSW 1797<BR>
AUSTRALIA<BR>
Ph. 61 2 9772 6784<BR>
Fax. 61 2 9772 6738<BR>
Email: c.m.davies@uws.edu.au<BR>
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