AV News 183 - February 2011
Attached is a statement from the Working Party set up following the
agreement by the Society to suspend the Audio Visual distinction panel in
September 2010. Will you please publish it in its entirety with no editorial
changes in the next available issue of your Journal.
Regards
Stuart Blake, Director General
STATEMENT FROM THE TBM WORKING GROUP
The Time Based Media Working Group was formed following the suspension
of the Audio Visual distinction panel in September 2010. The new working
group met on Thursday 28 October 2010 to consider the way forward and
have now made the following initial recommendations.
1. A new distinction panel should be formed called 'Multimedia & Narrative',
including the previous Audio Visual and Film & Video (Moving Image)
panels and encompassing time based media and the new technologies
(both present and future). The output of the imagery from large screen to
television, and tablet to personal devices will all be considered in relation
to defining both audience and context. The distinction will have common
ground in terms of the creative elements of looking and seeing, of
meaning and critical deba є