For details of previous ARCDigital news and events please see the archive page.
Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process
An ARCDigital conferenceDate: 25-26 March 2010
Venue: St. George's House, Cambridge
Fee: £25 (full) and £15 (concession for students, including PhD students)
This is the first event for the AHRC funded project 'Exploring New Configurations in Network Politics'. For more information please visit the project website.
Conference bookings can be made via the Anglia Ruskin Online Store.
Co-director publishes new article
Dr Jussi Parikka, Director of CoDE and co-director of ARCDigital, has just had a new article of his published in the media art collection Verbinding/Jonctions 10 - Tracks in Electr(on)ic fields. The piece is called "Insects, Affects and Imagining New Sensoriums" and focuses on the posthuman ideas in media design and media history.
Parikka argues that several media artistic work actually touch the non-human affects, and capacities of sensation, and hence point towards a new way of understanding perception and embodiment.
Dr Jussi Parikka, Director of CoDE and co-director of ARCDigital, has just had a new article of his published in the media art collection Verbinding/Jonctions 10 - Tracks in Electr(on)ic fields. The piece is called "Insects, Affects and Imagining New Sensoriums" and focuses on the posthuman ideas in media design and media history.
Parikka argues that several media artistic work actually touch the non-human affects, and capacities of sensation, and hence point towards a new way of understanding perception and embodiment.
February ARCDigital talk by J. Nathan Matias
Operational Media: Functional Design Trends Online
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2010
Time: 17.00-18.00
Venue: Helmore 252, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
All welcome.
Two prominent visions have guided the development of Internet technology from its beginning: the never-ending information space of creativity and information; and the networked tool for action. Now that markets for media production and search are saturated and stalling, second generation web tech has shifted focus to media that helps people make decisions and get things done. This lecture provides an introduction to key issues in the information design and software engineering of operational media.
For more information on J.Nathan Matias please see his personal website.
Operational Media: Functional Design Trends Online
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2010Time: 17.00-18.00
Venue: Helmore 252, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
All welcome.
Two prominent visions have guided the development of Internet technology from its beginning: the never-ending information space of creativity and information; and the networked tool for action. Now that markets for media production and search are saturated and stalling, second generation web tech has shifted focus to media that helps people make decisions and get things done. This lecture provides an introduction to key issues in the information design and software engineering of operational media.
For more information on J.Nathan Matias please see his personal website.
ARCDigital co-director appointed as CoDE director
The Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the start of the Directorship of CoDE by Dr Jussi Parikka. Dr Parikka will be working alongside co-director Dr Samantha Rayner.
The Cultures of the Digital Economy research institute (CoDE) has been formed as a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts, Law, and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Technology and Inspire to pursue research related to digital culture and the digital economy.
Alongside our other Institutes, it is part of a new impetus to engage in interdisciplinary research that pushes the boundaries of knowledge. It aims to participate strongly towards our Corporate Plan objectives of enhancing research income, research students, knowledge transfer and scholarly publications.
For more information please see the full news item on the ALSS website.
The Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the start of the Directorship of CoDE by Dr Jussi Parikka. Dr Parikka will be working alongside co-director Dr Samantha Rayner.
The Cultures of the Digital Economy research institute (CoDE) has been formed as a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts, Law, and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Technology and Inspire to pursue research related to digital culture and the digital economy.
Alongside our other Institutes, it is part of a new impetus to engage in interdisciplinary research that pushes the boundaries of knowledge. It aims to participate strongly towards our Corporate Plan objectives of enhancing research income, research students, knowledge transfer and scholarly publications.
For more information please see the full news item on the ALSS website.
A guest talk by Professor Richard Grusin
Premediation, affect, and the anticipation of security
Date: Thursday 14 January 2010Time: 16.00
Venue: Helmore 251, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
In this talk professor Grusin will explore how in our current biopolitical regime of securitization, socially networked media transactions are fostered and encouraged by mobilizing or intensifying pleasurable affects in the production of multiple, overlapping feedback loops among people (individually and collectively) and their media. Grusin outlines how, at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, social media such as cell phones, instant messaging, Facebook, or YouTube encourage different historical formations of mediated affect.
Richard Grusin is Professor of English at Wayne State University. His more recent work concerns historical, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of technologies of visual representation. With Jay David Bolter he is the author of 'Remediation: Understanding New Media' (MIT, 1999). His new book is titled 'Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11' (forthcoming 2010).
Dr Parikka to give talk on 'Changing Cultures'
ARCDigital co-director Dr Jussi Parikka is giving a talk in Barcelona as part of the Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change conference (10-12 December).
Parikka's talk focuses on topologies of nature-culture continuum in the context of recent media art and theory. It touches on recent discussions in animal studies, media theory and posthumanist discourses concerning media culture. Parikka's new book Insect Media is forthcoming 2010 from University of Minnesota Press.
ARCDigital co-director Dr Jussi Parikka is giving a talk in Barcelona as part of the Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change conference (10-12 December).
Parikka's talk focuses on topologies of nature-culture continuum in the context of recent media art and theory. It touches on recent discussions in animal studies, media theory and posthumanist discourses concerning media culture. Parikka's new book Insect Media is forthcoming 2010 from University of Minnesota Press.
ARCDigital Co-Directors respond to government's plan for the digital sector
ARCDigital Co-directors Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka participate in the discussions concerning the new Digital Economy Bill, released by the government.
In their response published by the Times Higher Education Supplement, Hands and Parikka argue how the way the Bill frames digital culture is already out of date and is unable to account for the new modes of cultural production that characterise digital production.
ARCDigital Co-directors Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka participate in the discussions concerning the new Digital Economy Bill, released by the government.
In their response published by the Times Higher Education Supplement, Hands and Parikka argue how the way the Bill frames digital culture is already out of date and is unable to account for the new modes of cultural production that characterise digital production.
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