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This symposium was for the 20-year anniversary celebration of GRAMMATRON, the groundbreaking work of net art by Mark Amerika. The “Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years into the Future” symposium and exhibition will feature presentations and panels focused on the convergence of net art and electronic literature as well as the curation and archiving of historical works of digital art. Invited to be on a panel including Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum of American Art and New School), and Dene Grigar (Washington State University Vancouver)

Instructional animations can be superior to statics when learning human motor skills

Based on the assumption of a working memory processor devoted to human movement, cognitive load theory is used to explore some conditions under which animated instructions are hypothesised to be more effective for learning than equivalent static graphics. Using paper-folding tasks dealing with human movement, results from three experiments confirmed our hypothesis, indicating a superiority of animation over static graphics. These results are discussed in terms of a working memory processor that may be facilitated by our mirror-neuron system and may explain why animated instructional animations are superior to static graphics for cognitively based tasks that involve human movement

Variance and Commonality in Metal Music Mixing Practice

Interview transcriptions of eight contemporary metal producers analysed for the study

Contemporary Approaches to Metal Music Mixing and Production

Overview of mixing decisions in nine contemporary heavy metal, death metal and metalcore productions as analysed in “Nail the Mix” videos

Engineering Conventions in Metal Music

Interview transcriptions of eight contemporary metal producers analysed for the study

Standardisation in Mixing Metal Music

Overview of mixing decisions as analysed in 50 “Nail the Mix” videos. Spreadsheet with systematic information on mixing choices based on 50 analysed metal music mixes, as documented in videos released by URM Academy Nail the Mix. Also includes SPSS file used for statistical analysis of the spreadsheet information