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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Aptos Display', sans-serif; color: black;">Creative Technology and Transformative Storytelling Symposium</span>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Diversifying and Decentralising Creative Practice Research Group</span><span style="color: #212121;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Journal of Media Practice and Education (JMPE)</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Join us on 13β14 November 2025 for the Creative Technology and Transformative Storytelling Symposium, hosted by the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies (CTMT) and the Virtual Creative Design Research Centre (VCD). This two-day event will feature:</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">- Work-in-progress presentations</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">- Lightning Talks</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">- Academic paper presentations</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">- Artefact exhibitions and showcases</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">- A roundtable discussion on creative technology and transformative storytelling</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">At CTMT, we explore the cultural, artistic, and socio-technological dimensions of media technologies and their impact on society. From film, television, and video games to virtual reality, robotics, and artificial intelligence, our research investigates how transformative media reshapes human engagement with the world.</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">VCD empowers creatives, technologists, and academics through interdisciplinary collaboration, cutting-edge technology, and meaningful industry partnerships. The centre is at the forefront of digital design and immersive media innovation.</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">We welcome submissions from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and Higher Degree Research (HDR/PhD) candidates. Industry keynote speakers will be announced closer to the date.</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Submit your abstract by 1 September 2025</span></strong></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; color: #212121;">π</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;"> </span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #467886;"><a style="color: #96607d; text-decoration: underline;" title="https://forms.office.com/r/zAqP98aXPs" href="https://forms.office.com/r/zAqP98aXPs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="cd833db6-9e03-4321-9a38-c98c11029be8"><span style="color: #467886;">https://forms.office.com/r/zAqP98aXPs</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Notification of acceptance: Around 26 September 2025</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Symposium Committee</span></strong></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Prof. John McCormick β Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">A/Prof.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Dafydd</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sill-Jones β AUT University, New Zealand/Aotearoa</span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Mr. Gregory Bennett<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>β AUT University, New Zealand/Aotearoa</span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Symposium Venues</span></strong></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #212121;">Watch highlights from the Swinburne Documentary Research Groupβs recent event in Sarawak, Malaysia </span></em><span style="color: #212121;"><a style="color: #96607d; text-decoration: underline;" title="https://youtu.be/JFNvE8r9SlE?si=YVoowP9K2xElskI6" href="https://youtu.be/JFNvE8r9SlE?si=YVoowP9K2xElskI6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="d22b45ab-f818-483d-8fda-3c046957a7e7">https://youtu.be/JFNvE8r9SlE?si=YVoowP9K2xElskI6</a></span></p>
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