Place/Dates: SARC, 16 May 2009

Description:

Two Thousand + Nine Symposium

Objective:

The 2009 theme centered around the notion of content, in particular on user-generated content, interaction and design in the context of network performance. The symposium served as a valuable platform for the exchange of practices and ideas relating to the role of the user in the creation, distribution and access to digital media over networks.

Results:

A selection of papers presented in the symposium was published as a book edited by Dr. Franziska Schroeder (SARC).

• Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media: Insights from the Two Thousand + NINE Symposium, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 [ISBN (10): 1-4438-1445-8, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1445-4]

Target group:

Researchers, COMEDIA partners, Artists, Academics.

Number of participants/visitors/audience (if appropriate): 50