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Conferences and Symposia

Language, Identity and New Technologies

A conference exploring the issues of Language, Identity and New Technologies was held at the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1, on Saturday, 7 November 1998.

The day was divided into three thematic areas with a choice of two workshop discussions to accompany each theme --

• THEME ONE: On Inner Textualities, Cyberbodies and Psychonalysis
• Talkingshop A
• Tessa Adams, Goldsmiths College,Whose Reality is it Anyway, Virtual reality, Psychosis, the Semiotic and the Real, A Psychoanalytical Perspective.
• Alex Warwick, University of Westminster, Technobody - Mythobody, Representations, Redefinitions and Reconfigurations The Role Played by the Body in Today's Technoculture.
• Talkingshop B
• Sarah Kember, Goldsmiths College, Get Alife, Cyberfeminism and the Politics of Artificial Life.
• Sandra Kemp, University of Westminster, Technologies of the Face, The Effects of New Technologies on the Psychology of Face Recognition and Portraiture.
• THEME TWO: Off Outer Textualties - Internal Sites and External Experiences
• Keynote Speaker: Jos Boys, De Montfort University, Windows on the World, Architecture, technologies and identities An exploration of how we use imaginary and material spaces to articulate identity, through investigations of specific places and technologies.
• Talkingshop C
• Angela Medhurst, University of Westminster, Shop 'til you(r connection) drop(s), Producing and consuming e-commerce. Female identity and the politics of the on-line supermarket
• Sherry Milner, We are all Wired for Violence, The Booby Trap, Technology and Domestic Spaces.
• Talkingshop D
• Maren Hartman, University of Westminster, The Cyberflaneuse--Strolling Freely through Virtual Worlds? The city, the flaneur and their relationship to the flaneuse- how language and history shape new cultural spaces.
• Penny Harvey, University of Manchester and Gaby Porter, The Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester, Infocities -- From Information to Conversation, Analysising how a group of men and women in Manchester have worked with new technologies in a pan-European project to create 'digital communities.'
• THEME THREE: Across Intertextualities -- Language, Identity and New Technologies
• Keynote Speaker: Diane Caney University of Tasmania, Australia, Inside\Outside Intertextuality, Assembling web-sites, texts and identity: new technologies and language.
• Talkingshop E
• Jackie Hatfield, University of Westminster, Distressing the Surface, How have women determined representation of their identities?
• Mary Ann Kennedy, Napier University, Technological Snow, Living with Snow and Nuclear Technology in Modern America
• Talkingshop F
• Lucia Grossberger-Morales (USA) Independant Artist, Multimedia that represents a Feminist, Personal Narrative.

Then: Helen Reddingtons' Voxpop Puella, Six films and a live performance, exploring attitudes to the seven ages of women, using predominantly digital film and music technology. Contributing film-makers: Gina Birch, Joan Ashworth, Charlotte Worthington, Gail Pearce, Jane Prophet, and Akiko Hada.

Book Launch: Desire by Design: Body, Territories and New Technologies, Publishers I B Tauris, University of Westminster Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London W1 R 8AL

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