“In a sickly time”: Reading Pepys in 2020

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Pepys keeps count of the increasing fatalities, and the safety he feels being in the “City” relatively diminishes as the plague gets very close home.

“Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”: Empathy and Solidarity in the Times of COVID-19

~ Ernesto Priego

Any optimistic or 'positive' approaches to the coronavirus pandemic should be framed and motivated by an awareness of the interconnectedness of everyone and everything.

PROGRAMME

~ Ernesto Priego

Looking forward to Creating Comics, Creative Comics 2020: BEYOND! a comics symposium in Cardiff!

geraintdarcyblog's avatarCreating Comics, Creative Comics 2020

Monday 6th April.
0930-1030CA B414 Studio Theatre.Registration andWelcome.

1030–Keynote.Dr.Sarah Lightman.Building Bridges: Art, Life and Comics.

1130–ComicsCreation

Alexander James Pollard–The Precognitive Painting Programme.

DanielGoodbrey–How to Cheat at Comics – DigitalAlternatives toTraditionalTechniques forComicIllustration.

Leonie Sharrock– Memories of Story-Self and the Insides ofOldEnvelopes:theMaking of aCollage-comic, ‘Unwritten’.

1300–LUNCH

1400–AdaptationPractices

Lena Lenny– Slovene Literature in Comics – Adaptation ofLiteraryClassics.

SimonGrennan– RationalisingGraphicAdaptation as aMethod ofInterrogating theImpact of French Theatre in Victorian London.

Geraint D’Arcy–MakingTheatreTechnologyComics.

1530–Writing Practice

Hailey Austin– CreatingCommando.

BrianFagence–ConstructingEntropy, Deconstructing Practice.

1630END DAY 1

Tuesday 7th April.
1000– Registration Day 2.

1030–EsotericComics

Barbara Chamberlin–WalkingWyrd:Comics,Collaboration andCunningFolk.

LisaKottas– Sight Beyond Sight: TheConscious Aesthetics ofJibaMoleiAnderson’sThe Horsemen.

MartinSchwarzenbacher–…

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Using narrative to convey the experience of dementia care-giving: I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care

~ Ernesto Priego

Announcing the release of a new output in the Parables of Care series:  I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care (2020).

Stories of Designs Past: Narrative Design Transmedia Archaeology

~ Ernesto Priego

On the intersections of media archaeology and human computer interaction design. Provisional draft notes shared as a prompt for future research group discussion. I originally published this post on the HCID Comics, Games & Media Research Group blog.

Tweeting in an Age of Overwhelming Information Overload and Increased Workloads

~ Ernesto Priego

How has my thinking changed in relation to Twitter use by academics? I bullet-point some ideas that can be taken if desired as tips or strategies by those academic colleagues who are new to Twitter.

Abstract for Creating Comics, Creative Comics 2020: DIY Digital Comics Without Drawing: Craft, Collaboration and Materiality in the Digital Age 

~ Ernesto Priego

I am delighted my paper for the Creating Comics, Creative Comics 2020- BEYOND Symposium at the University of South Wales: Cardiff Campus (Monday 6th – Tuesday 7th April 2020) has been accepted. I am looking forward to participating. Below I share a slightly revised version my abstract. Abstract DIY Digital Comics Without Drawing: Craft, Collaboration … Continue reading Abstract for Creating Comics, Creative Comics 2020: DIY Digital Comics Without Drawing: Craft, Collaboration and Materiality in the Digital Age