Schedule
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 9.45 Opening Address
10.00 – 11.15 Panels 1A & 1B
11.30 – 1.00 Panels 2A & 2B
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch (not provided)
2.00 – 2.20 [Please Stand By]
2.30 – 3.45 Panels 3A & 3B
3.45 – 4.15 Refreshments (provided)
4.15 – 5.30 Keynote
Panel 1A: Disrupted Transmissions
Chair:
- Brontë Schiltz (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ‘“The technology makes them stronger”: spectral televisuality and the everyday in Inside No. 9’
- Harriet Thompson (King’s College London, UK) ‘Strange Vibrations: Technophobia and Telegraphy in ‘The Signal-Man’’
- Shellie McMurdo (University of Roehampton, UK) ‘White Tapes and Bad Sound: The Audio Glitches of Video Palace’
Panel 1B: Cyber-myths and Spectral Realities
Chair: Stephen Curtis
- Joe Ondrak (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ‘Beyond the LCD Veil: Creepypasta’s Annihilation of Digital Reality’
- Henry Morgan (Cardiff University School of Music, UK) ‘Hypergrunge and the boy with the melting face: authorship, horror and fragments of identity surrounding Daniel Lopatin’s Garden of Delete’
- Hayley Louise Charlesworth (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ‘“You Made Him Real”: Interactive Digital Hauntings for the YouTube Generation’
Panel 2A: Affective Narratives
Chair:
- Stephen Curtis (Lancaster University, UK) ‘From Descartes to Tron and Beyond: What Do You Do if the Ghost in the Machine is You?’
- Vicki Williams (University of Birmingham, UK) ‘Feeling the Presence of Mediated Error: Glitch Ecologies, Horror and the Phenomenology of Virtual Reality’
- Charlotte Gislam (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ‘Glitches and their Emergent Capabilities: Replicating the Anomalies of Digital Game Narratives’
Panel 2B: Algorithmic Détournement
Chair: Kerry Dodd
- David Barnard-Wills (Trilateral Research, UK) ‘Haunted, ghostly and occult metaphors in the discourse of surveillance and cyber security’
- David Hering (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘Weaponising Ghostliness: Invisibility as Social Protest’
- Edward King (University of Bristol, UK) ‘Twin Faces as Glitches in Algorithmic Image Cultures’
Panel 3A: Theorising the Glitch
Chair: Vicki Williams
- Joseph Lindley (Lancaster University, UK) ‘Ghost Hunting with Object Oriented Ontology and Animism’
- David Hulks (University of East Anglia, UK) ‘ The Glitchiness of Contemporary Art’
- Kerry Dodd (Lancaster University, UK) ‘Rendering the Ghost: Towards a Digital-orientated Ontology’
Panel 3B: Phasing through Boundaries
Chair: Charlotte Gislam
- Luke Jones (Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, UK) ‘‘Falling out of the world’ — clipping through the landscapes of computer games’
- Beata Gubacsi (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘Glitching through walls: Posthuman Subjectivity and Spatiality in Detroit: Become Human and Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’
- Luciana Hall (Greenwich University, UK) ‘Augmented reality conjuring phantasms creating a nostalgia for a future we cannot experience’