SwanCon

SwanCon is Australia's longest-running science fiction convention, and is thought to be the longest running convention of this type in the southern hemisphere. It has been held annually in Perth, Western Australia since its inception in 1976, and has grown from a small gathering of like-minded friends into multi-fandom event that attracts upwards of 250 people. It is traditionally held in the first half of the year, typically for five days over the Easter long weekend.
==2008: Introduction of Transformative Fanworks==
In 2008, black_samara, Transcendancing and cupidsbow hosted a panel on transformative fanworks.
From cupidsbow convention report:
==2009: Vidding and Podfic added to the mix==
In 2009, cupidsbow discussed fanworks again including the OTW, slash fanfiction, podfic and vidding. Two vids were shown: Vogue by Luminosity, and Twist by special_trille.
She also linked to her , along with her Primersfor Reading SGA Fanfic; Primer for reading Torchwood fanfic; and Primer for Reading Merlin Fanfic.
==2011:Politics of Fanworks and Vidding==
In 2011, cupidsbow and chaosmanor hosted the Politics of Fanworks panel: "the ways fanworks speak back not only to a primary text (in many cases), but also to other fanworks, and most importantly, that they are part of a large, sprawling conversation about issues which can loosely be labeled "feminist" or "activist"."
 From cupidsbow convention report:
They also hosted a panel about vidding where the following vids were shown:
==2012: Focus on Fanvids==
In 2012, cupidbow hosted a vidding panel called "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury"
==2013: Vidding Blowout==
The last Swancon report posted by cupidsbow was in 2013 where she described her vidding panels:
The goal of the 1 hour vidshow was "threefold: show some of the very best vids; give a sense of the wide range of genres fan vidders are working in; and raise awareness of the art of vidding so that we can move away from simple show-and-tell style vidshows and try some more interesting things."Ibid.
The following vids were shown
* FILK Johnson Style (Gangnam Style Parody), NASA
* MULTI Starships, bironic
* MISC (Aliens) Stayin' Low, Hollywoodgrrl
* MULTI Doomsday 1 - Lost Home and MULTI Doomsday 2 - The Way, Norlack
* MULTI Touching Your Fear, Uniquevil
* SPN Dueling (cellos) Winchesters, Ash48
* AD Commercial Days, Proxy
* MULTI A Different Kind of Love Song, giandujakiss
In her con report cupidsbow expressed interest in expanding future vid shows even further to themed vid shows but needed "to have enough Aussie vidders to make up a solid part of the show, and as far as I can tell we're not quite there yet. There were more self-identified vidders at this year's con than ever before though, so I'm hopeful." Ibid.
The second panel was titled: "The role of fanvids. In this panel, I wanted to discuss the politics of fan media works, ranging beyond the politics of copyright (as interesting as that is). I also wanted to cover lots of different types of fan media works, from fan films and AMV to songvids. The panelists did a good job of this, bringing a lot of perspectives and experience to the discussion."Ibid.
Later in the hotel room she hosted an "Insta-vid room party. This was a trial run to see if Ash48 and I could run a simple vidding workshop which actually made a vid in a couple of hours -- an idea I got from reading discussions of joyful shenanigans at American vidding conventions.The short version was that yes, we could, and we did indeed make the fastest vid in the world -- about 3 ish hours of vidding, and four participants (Capsikin, WonderingElf, cupidsbow, Ash48), to produce a vid 1:07 minutes long."Ibid.
The final vid panel was her introduction to the concept of an "In Depth Review" panel:
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