MeCCSA Practice 2021News
It’s day two of Solent University’s MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium!
Day one saw us launch our Interactive Video Essay Challenge along with a welcome introduction via Zoom.
Today, we will be releasing all of the video papers at timed intervals throughout the day. You can go to the YouTube page for any specific event and set a reminder, watch the premiere and interact via the live chat.
This Practice Network Symposium aims to frame practice-led, practice-based, practice as research and research for creative practice through the lens of research impact
We have invited responses from practitioners engaged in a broad range research related activity across the range of subject disciplines represented by MeCCSA. The keynotes, papers, panels and interactive sessions respond to themes such as:
Registration (free) is open and programme posted to the website: https://practice21.net/registration/
Hosted by the Faculty of Business Law and Digital Technologies, Solent University, on the 24th/25th June 2021, the event will take place online.
The MPE/MeCCSA Practice 2021 symposium is supported by MeCCSA Practice Network
This round table discussion with the editorial board of Screenworks, an online peer-reviewed publication of screen media practice research, will focus on the journal’s evolving editorial approaches. Using Screenworks as a case study, we will explore the dialogic relationship between written statement and practice, critically examine the peer review process (from both sides of the experience) and outline the journal’s journey to becoming more accessible and inclusive. We will also explore Screenworks’ role in academic publication of the emerging field of videographic film criticism. The discussion will take as its jumping off point an MPE article by Editors Charlotte Crofts and Alex Nevill and explore how the journal has since developed, with the recent expansion of the editorial board.
“Provoking Practice: new forms of reach, impact and significance” the MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network ONLINE Symposium on Friday 25th June, 2021.
Our CfP is still open and you submit via our website until the EXTENDED deadline of 14th May 2021.
For further details visit our website: https://practice21.net/call-for-papers/
CfP extended for “Provoking Practice: new forms of reach, impact and significance” the MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network ONLINE Symposium happening on Friday 25th June, 2021.
Our CfP is still open and you submit via our website until the EXTENDED deadline of 14th May 2021.
For further details visit our website: https://practice21.net/call-for-papers/
The Practice Network Symposium aims to frame practice-led, practice-based, practice as research and research for creative practice through the lens of research impact as we run up to 2021 REF. We especially invite responses from practitioners engaged in any research related activities across the range of media represented by MeCCSA, whose practice presentations can respond to questions, themes and ideas that include, but are not limited to:
Proposals may take the form of:
The symposium organisers will consider all online presentations of practice-based research, practice-led research, practice as research or research for creative practice work, from all manifestations of creative and media activity across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA.
Non-traditional forms of presentation (for example, lecture-performances, videos, photo essays, installations, media artworks, short films, interactive websites, roundtable discussions etc.) are encouraged.
Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a special issue of Media Practice and Education in 2021.
Please submit abstracts/proposals (300 words) for all presentations, papers, artworks or screenings, outlining their aim and form, along with a short biography (150 word) via the online submission form: https://practice21.net/subsmissions/
The symposium convenors are:
Roy Hanney, Senior Lecturer Media Production
Darren Kerr, Head of Film and Digital Arts
Abstracts/proposals should be received by Friday 14th May 2021.
Hosted by the Faculty of Business Law and Digital Technologies, Solent University, on the 24th/25th June 2021, the event will take place online and full details will be posted on our website in advance. You can register on the website for our mailing list for direct updates to your inbox
The MPE/MeCCSA Practice 2021 symposium is supported by MeCCSA Practice Network
Creative Practice Research in the Age of Post Pandemic Confusion: Professor Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is the Head of School for Film, Media and performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts.
Valuing the research that artists and media makers actually do: Professor Desmond Bell is a Research Fellow at the National College of Art and Design Dublin, where he was previously Head of Academic Affairs and Research.
Full details of the keynotes can be seen on the Keynotes page of the website.
Although the keynotes will be delivered asynchronously via our website there will be an opportunity to engage in discussion and debate around the themes raised in the keynotes in a live panel session. More details of how and when this will happen will be released shortly.
Meanwhile our CfP is still open and you submit via our website until the deadline of 30th April 2021.
We waited and waited, till the suspense was too much and then we had to make a decision. To online or not online that is the question. And as much as we wanted for the symposium to be face to face in the real world. You remember, when we used to meet people and get to know them in the flesh. Well, we just had to move the thing online.
However, especially since everyone, their dog, their cow and their uncle has already moved there event online. We wanted to do something a little different so we have decided to adopt the principle that if it involves being talked at via a screen then it should be delivered asynchronously. While if it is interactive and participatory we will make a space for people to gather online and talk.
This means that all the papers, the keynotes and much of the media we hope to include will be uploaded to the website and you can consume it at your own leisure. For the event itself we plan to host two 90 minute panel sessions with lots of interaction and questions from the floor. A kind of hyper-Question Time if you like. Alongside this, we are exploring ways of running an online unconference or open space event.
If you have not been to an open space event before I am sure you have heard of them. It’s like a democratic experiment in conference administration which puts the delegates in the driving seat. It is not something you can do in teams or Zoom so we are evaluating possible platforms that will enable us to deliver what we hope will be an exciting, interactive and participatory event.
The call for papers is open until 30th April and you all about the symposium themes and sign up to submit here: https://practice21.net/call-for-papers/
So, save the date (24th & 25th June) and let’s dare to be different.
We are very pleased to be able to announce that Solent University, Southampton will be hosting this year’s MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium. We are going to be working on a CFP over the coming weeks and hope to have more information shortly.
The symposium will take place on 24th & 25th June 2021 in our iconic Spark Building in the heart of Southampton.
We expect to be organising some events and activities on the preceding Wednesday evening for everyone who will be travelling to the symposium. If you have ideas for anything you would like to do that evening do get in touch we would love to hear from you.
The symposium this year will take a look at research impact but will also be inviting papers, presentations, screenings and other manifestations of practice from all areas and fields of media practice.
Watch this space!