Repetition and Technology

Chairs; Steve Carrick Dan Boetker-Smith, Elisa Oliver

Developments in technology have radically altered ideas of the temporal and our ability to be ‘in time’. From the ‘loop’ that keeps us in a constant state of return as in the work of artists such as Rodney Graham or Bruce Nauman, to the collapsing of the past into the present through our increased ability to document and record, we are left in a constant condition of revival and return, a new subjectivity constructed through the de-temporalised. This could be seen to be a logical chain of development from the first photograph to the manipulation of the image through computer technology, such as the work of Jeff Wall or Wendy McMurdo, but it is a development that in its transformation of subjectivity has also radically affected the more traditional mediums of painting and drawing as can be seen in painting of someone like George Shaw.  This stream will explore the ways that this de-temporalised state has informed creative practice and its implications for meaning and identity, such as narrative, memory and the virtual.

Steve Carrick-University of Chester
‘Parameters R us: the digital superstore’

Becky Shaw-Independent
‘Getting Real’

Elisa Oliver-University of Chester
‘Seeing the 1970s: stasis and return in contemporary British Art Practice.’

Dr. Cian Quayle-University of Chester
‘Instants of Fragmentation and Repetition – Reprise
A retracing of steps already taken: Processes of memory and repetition as part of practice based research’

Dr Ewan Kirkland-Buckingham Chilterns University
‘The Compulsion to Replay in Horror Videogames’

John Rimmer, University of Derby
 ‘…-…/999’  

Amanda Windle, University of the Creative Arts at Epsom.
‘Going to the middle of nowhere: The repetition of subjugated knowledge software agents’

Inigio Wilkins, Independant
‘Recording Playback’

Fay incorporated, Independent 
‘Through the Manufactory’

Repetition and Difference
Chairs: Dr David Pattie, Dr,Rina Arya

The theoretical notion of difference challenged, from a range of perspectives, the notion of objectivity and authority implied by Modernism.  In the face of such theorisation what are we to understand by repetition and a supposed condition of sameness? How does this inform constructions of gender and racial identity in contemporary culture and what now has become of difference?

Pennia Barnett -Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Repetition and Repair: The work of art and the work of mourning’

Julian Waite –University of Chester
‘Some applications of Neuro Linguistic Programming to the rehearsal process, with the aim to enhance the vitality of repeated performances’

Dr. David Pattie-University of Chester
‘Repeat: Beckett’s Theatre ’

Dr.Rina Arya-University of Chester
‘Time, Motion, Disintegration’

Janet Bezzant-University of Manchester
‘Making knowledge
Why is on(c)e not enough?: Repetition and reflexivity – from real to virtual’

Ramsey Burt, Demontfort University, Leicester
‘Tap Dancing In A Coca-Cola World’

Erini Kartsaki , Independent
 ‘Falling in her Feeling’

Deborah Harty, Adriana Ionascu & Laura Wild, University of Loughborough
‘Transformative Becoming: the embodiment of repetitive actions’.

Christopher Poulson, University of Middlesex
‘At Last, Enough’