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Virginia Madsen

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Dr Virginia Madsen is senior research and teaching academic in media, Macquarie University, Australia. Prior to her teaching and research career she was a founding member of the internationally renowned Australian ABC audio arts and performance program, The Listening Room. A distinguished producer-director, Madsen has created a large body of feature and performance work in sound and for radio, and contributed to theatre, film and museum productions. She has published widely on audio media forms and public broadcasting history. She continues as a creator, director and writer for new sound media platforms. Contact: virginia.madsen@mq.edu.au Research Profile: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/virginia-madsen
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flakkari

“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.

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