Conference – Schedule – Assessing Graduate Screen Production Outputs

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCREEN & SOUND (NASS) RESEARCH CENTRE and
NETWORKS ENHANCING THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING (NEST)

NEST - Networks Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching Murdoch University Office of Learning and Teaching

CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL
3-5 September 2010

DAY 1 – FRIDAY 3 SEPT (Hill Lecture Theatre)

1:00pm

Registration
Outside Hill Lecture Theatre

**SESSION 1: Setting the Scene**
*(Chair: Josko Petcovic)*
1:30pm	Ian Lang Film Schools in Post-Industrial Era	VCA
2:00pm	Ron Elliot Painting Elephant/Painting Monkey	Curtin University
2:30pm	Dr Larissa Sexton-Finck Be(com)ing Reel Woman	UWA
3:00pm	Coffee Break Education & Humanities Common Room

**SESSION 2: The Reality Factor**
*(Chair: Martin Mhando)*
3:30pm	Zemirah Moffat Assessing Participatory (AV) Ethnography: Audiences, Ethics and Uses	Kent (UK)
4:00pm	Howard Worth Documentary � Interdisciplinary by Nature	Curtin University
4:30pm	Susan Taylor Suchy Know Thyself: Know Thy Market � an examination of the role of new marketing opportunities in relation to academic assessment of creative arts and the pursuit of knowledge	UWA
5:00pm	Chantal Bourgault du Coudray Thinking With Werewolves: Gender, Creativity, and Life/Theory/Art	UWA

**EVENING AND FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES**
5:30pm	Light Dinner (provided) Club Murdoch
6:30pm	Pre-Festival Drinks Club Murdoch Tavern or Lounge Club Murdoch (presenters & guests)
7:00pm	Festival Opening Special guest: Rolf de Heer Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre
7:30pm	Festival Screening “Graduating with Honours” Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre

DAY 2 – SATURDAY 4 SEPT (Hill Lecture Theatre)

9:00am

Registration and Coffee
Outside Hill Lecture Theatre

**SESSION 3: Creative Practice – What Is It?**
*(Chair: Ian Lang)*
9:30am	Rolf de Heer Q&A Session
10:00am	Robert Marshall A Dichotomy Between the Arts and Screen	formerly of BBC
10:30am	Coffee Break (20min) Education & Humanities Common Room

**SESSION 4: Practice-Based Scholarship**
*(Chair: Lesley Parker)*
10:50am	Lesley Parker Session Context: Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Non-traditional Disciplines	Curtin University
11:00am	Josko Petkovic Diegetic Life Forms: Assessing Graduate Outputs in 19 Australian Film Schools	Murdoch
11:30am	Maggie Phillips Harnessing Imagination for Knowledge: A Case for Practice-based Research	WAAPA
12:00pm	Jenny de Reuck Shaped Space: locating a performance of Twelfth Night	Murdoch
12:30pm	LUNCH (1 hour)

**SESSION 5: The Body of Evidence**
*(Chair: Jenny de Reuck)*
1:30pm	Erin Hawley Digital Frankensteins: the post-organic bodies of digital animation	Murdoch
2:00pm	Ken Miller Screen Presence and the Performing Self	Curtin University
2:30pm	Jane Gilmer In Exile with Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: Solo Performance as “Analytic Theatre”	National Institute of Education, Singapore
3:00pm	Coffee Break (30 min) Education & Humanities Common Room

**SESSION 6: Intertextual Panorama**
*(Chair: Maggi Phillips)*
3:30pm	Cat Hope Playing Image: the Aesthetics of Screening Scores	WAAPA
4:00pm	Andrew Ewing Sciences of the Spirit: Looking at music & film as ‘natural’ knowledge	ECU
4:30pm	Martin Mhando, Serge Tampalini, David Moody Wittness	Murdoch
5:20pm	End of Session

**EVENING ACTIVITIES**
7:00pm	Conference Dinner The View, 47 Mews Rd Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle

DAY 3 – SUNDAY 5 SEPT (Hill Lecture Theatre)

9:00am

Coffee
Outside Hill Lecture Theatre

**SESSION 7: New Media Scholarship**
*(Chair: Su Baker)*
9:30am	Matthew Allen Going Public with Learning: Online education and the real world	Curtin University
10:00am	Ingrid Richardson Remix, Mash-Up, Share: copyright and assessment policy in interactive media, games and digital design	Murdoch
10:30am	Coffee Break (30 min) Education & Humanities Common Room

**SESSION 8: The Old, the New and the Interactive**
*(Chair: Ingrid Richardson)*
11:00am	Jacqui Baker New Media/Digital Romanticism � nature, nurture, enchantment and the everyday	Murdoch
11:30am	John McMullan The Third State of Cinema: Remediation at work	Murdoch
12:00pm	Mark Cypher How not to understand interactivity by ignoring it	Murdoch
12:30pm	Jennifer Robinson Media engagement from the physiological perspective	Murdoch/ ITRI
1:00pm	LUNCH & Organised Discussion Club Murdoch (2 hours) Guest speaker: Su Baker (VCA)
3:00pm	End of Conference