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Digital Culture in the 21st Century |
Oxford Union
Debating Chamber, Wednesday 21st April 1999.
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| MORNING SESSION | |
| MUSEUMS Chair: Sarah Porter |
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| 10:00 | Jane Carmichael, Assistant Director, Collections, Imperial War Museum |
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PERFORMANCE Chair: Sarah Porter |
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| 10:30 | Dan
Greenstein,
Director, Arts and Humanities Data
Service Barry Smith, Lecturer in Theatre and founder of the Live Art Archive |
| ART Chair: Stuart Sutherland |
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| 11:10 | Sean Cubitt, Lecturer in Screen Studies, author of Digital Aesthetics |
| 11:25 | Roy Ascott, Artist and Director of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts |
| MUSIC Chair: Lou Burnard |
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| 11:50 | Simon Waters, Director of Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of East Anglia |
| 12:05 | Nigel Morgan, Lecturer in Creative Music Technology, Co-Developer of Symbolic Composer |
| 12:20 | OPEN DEBATE |
| Motion: | In the next century digital experiences will be preferred to 'real' experiences |
| The motion was defeated by 43 votes
to 33 votes.
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AFTERNOON SESSION |
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| LITERATURE Chair: Frances Condron |
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| 14:30 | Chris Meade, Director, Poetry Society |
| 14:45 | Peter Howard, Poet, http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/ |
| STYLE AND DESIGN Chair: Stuart Lee |
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| 15:15 | Peter York, Author, Journalist, and Broadcaster |
| 15:30 | Robin Baker, Director, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication |
| 15:45 | OPEN DEBATE |
| Motion: | The digital world is all style and no substance |
| The motion was defeated by 55 votes to 6 votes | |
| BROADCASTING Chair: Michael Fraser |
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| 16:30 | Peter Gibbins, Executive Director, Digital Virtual Centre of Excellence for Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology |
| 17:00 | CLOSE |
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