a textural journey ON PAPER…

Attended a day in University of London's Senate House with a group curious about the state of paper in the digital age. Here's a list of presenters and the titles of each paper presented.

ON PAPER. A symposium exploring the meanings of the material page in the era of the digital text
Beveridge Hall, Senate House
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/OnPaper/index.htm

PROGRAMME:

PANEL 1: SERIALS / NEWSPAPERS / COMICS (Chair: Robert Eaglestone)
Tony Venezia (Birkbeck), 'Alan Moore and the Material Text: The Case of The Mirror of Love.' 'Zara Dinnen (Birkbeck), 'Object McSweeney's: Fetishising print in the Digital Age.'Laurel Brake (Birkbeck), 'Paper Chains/Paper Dreams? Reading nineteenth-century serials online and on paper'

PANEL 2: READING THE SURFACE (Chair: Joe Brooker)
Luisa Calè (Birkbeck), 'Reading and Cutting through the Surface: William Blake's extra-illustrated page from paper to print and to screen.' Heather Tilley (Birkbeck), 'The "feeling reader": embossed books for blind people in the nineteenth century.' Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck),'The Sculptures of Picasso with Photos by Brassai' Henderson Downing (Birkbeck), ' "A modernist collage of found objects": The Second Education of Iain Sinclair'

PANEL 3: MARKING THE SURFACE (Chair: Gill Partington)
Adam Smyth (Birkbeck), 'Collage: Reconsidering Renaissance Writing.' Ros Murray (King's College), 'Scrapings of the Soul: Artaud's Cahier 395'. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), 'Medieval graffiti, Digitization and the Emotional Archive'
Response from Professor Esther Leslie, followed by round table discussion.