CULTURE LAB: 49 King's Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
09:45 – Welcome & Introduction (Gustav Thomas)
10:00–11:15 – Session One: [Contexts/Contradictions]
Chair: Adam Soper
- Marco Biasioli – Ukrainian Popular Music in Times of War: National Identity, Transnational Projections and the Musician as Grassroots Ambassador
 - Alex Lowe – Illegal Sounds and Elitist Ears: Plunderphonics, Piracy, and Prejudice in the Academy
 - Matt Davies– Music as Method: Interventions and Practices of Popular Culture in World Politics
 
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11:30-13:00 – Session Two: [Contexts/Contradictions]
Chair: Anna Heslop
- Stewart Smith – From Dalston to Chicago: How XT and Kavain Wayne Space Activate Music History and Cultural Memory through the Intertextual Practices of Improvised Music and Footwork
 - Mark Wardlaw – Symbiosis and Sympoiesis, Processing and Parasitism
 - Michael Waugh – Total Freedom, NON States & Hardstyle Hybrid Theories: The Sonic Fictions of Deconstructed Club
 
[20 minute walk from Culture Lab to Star & Shadow features the site-specific installation Brasilia of the North (Cameron Clarke) en route]
STAR & SHADOW CINEMA: Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BB
14:00–17:00 – Session Three: Presentations & Discussion
Café and Cinema
- Gavin Butt– “Seized on the Wing”: The Tactics of Art School Pop
 - Graham Dolphin – Pop Process
 - Daniel Bird - Cleansing the Temple: Working with Outtakes, Screen and Camera Tests
 - Dina Kelberman - I’m Google, 2011-now
 
19:00-LATE - Evening Performance Programme
Café and Venue Space
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