DIGITAL DEATH DAY: LONDON@The Centre for CreativeCollaboration9th October 2010

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SO FIRSTLY WHAT IS “DIGITAL DEATH”?Digital death can be seen as the death of a livingbeing and the way it affects the digital worldor the death of a digital object and the way itaffects a living being.OK, SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ME?Death is a part of life and life has (to anextent) become digital. Our increasing digitalitymeans that we will increasingly be forced to comeFACE to SCREEN with the various dimensions andcomplexities of Digital Death.This conference will be primarily concerned withprovoking discourse around the social, culturaland practical implications of Death in the Digitalworld. Thus stimulating a reconsideration of howdeath, mourning, memories and history are currentlybeing augmented in our technologically mediatedsociety.