Former conference coordinator and journal editor (and roller-derby aficionado) Alexis Carreiro muses about the anxieties and joys of organizing the first Flow conference, and presents her ideas for three iterations of Flow – the journal, a manuscript, and biennial conference.

Faculty advisor to the inaugural Flow conference, Michael Kackman, reflects on the importance of place and space for cultivating meaningful engagement and lasting community, and suggests ways for Flow to continue fostering both.

Remembering Flow’s origins and its objective to challenge the status quo, 2006 coordinator Christopher Lucas proposes three ways for the journal and conference to continue experimenting with interdisciplinarity.

Allison Perlman, one of the organizers for the inaugural Flow conference, assesses the potential and potential difficulties of bridging the divides between diverse communities who come together for a roundtable conversation.

2006 conference organizer Avi Santo discusses the origins of Flow’s “un-conference” model, and provides his thoughts on how the conference might continue to flip conference conventions by conjoining conversation and production during roundtable sessions.

David Uskovich, 2006 conference coordinator, recalls the effort to consider non-mainstream forms of television and media-making at the first Flow conference, and contemplates how we might discuss “radical” forms of television after a decade of technological development.