News archive 2010
ARCDigital to co-host Network Politics event
As part of the AHRC funded 'Exploring New Configurations in Network Politics' ARCDigital will be co-hosting, with the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson University, a symposium: 'Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects' in Toronto on 22 - 23 October 2010.
Dr Jussi Parikka wins prestigious fellowship
Dr Jussi Parikka, Director of the CoDE research institute and Co-Director of ARCDigital, has won a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt foundation fellowship for Spring 2011. The fellowship allows Parikka to work with Humboldt University's Media Studies Department in Berlin and write his new book on media archaeology, contracted with Polity Press.
Media archaeology is an emerging methodological and theoretical approach to themes of media history in the age of digital culture, as well as the changing notions of archive in the midst of web 2.0 culture. It represents one of the new key trends in media studies. Parikka has published extensively on the topic, and the co-edited volume Media Archaeologies is forthcoming early 2011 from University of California Press. In addition, Parikka has already won a short-term fellowship with the London Science Museum.
ARCDigital Director publishes major new interview on media theory and arts
Dr Jussi Parikka was recently interviewed by Garnet Hertz for Ctheory - an international peer-reviewed journal of theory, technology and culture. In conversation with Hertz, Parikka talks about media archaeological methods in cultural analysis and artistic work, especially media arts.
The co-edited volume (with Erkki Huhtamo, UCLA) 'Media Archaeologies' is forthcoming 2010/2011 from University of California Press, and he is also currently writing a new book on media archaeology for Polity Press, as well as blogging on the subject.
Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process
An ARCDigital conference
Date: 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.
Beyond reference: Eclectic Method's music for the eyes
Professor Nicholas Cook talks on musical multimedia at Anglia Ruskin University
Date: Tuesday 11 May 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:15
Location: Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, Helmore 252
Free entry - all welcome.
Screen media genres from Fantasia (1940) to the music video of half a century later extended the boundaries of music by bringing moving images within the purview of musical organisation: the visuals of rap videos, for example, are in essence just another set of musical parameters, bringing their own connotations into play within the semantic mix in precisely the same way as do more traditional musical parameters. But in the last two decades digital technology has taken such musicalisation of the visible to a new level, with the development of integrated software tools for the editing and manipulation of sounds and images. In this paper I illustrate these developments through the work of the UK-born but US-based remix trio Eclectic Method, focussing in particular on the interaction between their multimedia compositional procedures and the complex chains of reference that result, in particular, from their film mashups.
Professor Nicholas Cook is currently Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Darwin College. Previously, he was Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directed the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He has also taught at the University of Hong Kong, University of Sydney, and University of Southampton, where he served as Dean of Arts. He is a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.
The talk is organized by the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) Institute at Anglia Ruskin University and the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital).
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.
February ARCDigital talk by J. Nathan Matias
Operational Media: Functional Design Trends OnlineDate: 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.
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.
A guest talk by Professor Richard Grusin
Premediation, affect, and the anticipation of securityDate: Thursday 14 January 2010
Time: 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.
Dr Jussi Parikka to speak on 'Experiment as Event'
Reader Jussi Parikka is to give an invited talk at the Experiment as Event in the Arts and Sciences symposium at Lancaster University. As part of a wider series of events on experimentality, Dr Parikka will participate in the workshop 'Experiment as Event'. He will talk on the interconnections of recent media art and philosophy of the event, and elaborate on some of the aesthetico-political connections between media ecological research and with the theme of the experiment.
Dr Parikka is the Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture and, from January 2010 onwards, the Director of the new interfaculty research institute CoDE: Cultures of Digital Economy.
Reader Jussi Parikka is to give an invited talk at the Experiment as Event in the Arts and Sciences symposium at Lancaster University. As part of a wider series of events on experimentality, Dr Parikka will participate in the workshop 'Experiment as Event'. He will talk on the interconnections of recent media art and philosophy of the event, and elaborate on some of the aesthetico-political connections between media ecological research and with the theme of the experiment.
Dr Parikka is the Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture and, from January 2010 onwards, the Director of the new interfaculty research institute CoDE: Cultures of Digital Economy.
Book launch event
'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture'
Edited by: Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson (Hampton Press, Alternative Communications Series, 2009)
Date: Friday, September 25th, 6-8pm (prompt)
Venue: Room 3/4, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way New Cross
Short interventions will be made by contributing writers including Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Steve Goodman, Jussi Parikka, Sadie Plant and Tony Sampson
For those of us increasingly reliant on email networks in our everyday social interactions, spam can be a pain; it can annoy; it can deceive; it can overload. Yet spam can also entertain and perplex us. This book is an aberration into the dark side of network culture. Instead of regurgitating stories of technological progress or over-celebrating creative social media on the Internet, it filters contemporary culture through its anomalies. The book features theorists writing on spam, porn, censorship, and viruses. The evil side of media theory is exposed to theoretical interventions and innovative case studies that touch base with new media and Internet studies and the sociology of new network culture, as well as post-presentational cultural theory.
Organised by: The Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
All welcome
'The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture'
Edited by: Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson (Hampton Press, Alternative Communications Series, 2009)
Date: Friday, September 25th, 6-8pm (prompt)
Venue: Room 3/4, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way New Cross
Short interventions will be made by contributing writers including Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Steve Goodman, Jussi Parikka, Sadie Plant and Tony Sampson
For those of us increasingly reliant on email networks in our everyday social interactions, spam can be a pain; it can annoy; it can deceive; it can overload. Yet spam can also entertain and perplex us. This book is an aberration into the dark side of network culture. Instead of regurgitating stories of technological progress or over-celebrating creative social media on the Internet, it filters contemporary culture through its anomalies. The book features theorists writing on spam, porn, censorship, and viruses. The evil side of media theory is exposed to theoretical interventions and innovative case studies that touch base with new media and Internet studies and the sociology of new network culture, as well as post-presentational cultural theory.
Organised by: The Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
All welcome
CoDE research fellow and ArcDigital affiliate Dr Greg Elmer CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Preempting Dissent: Open Sourcing Secrecy
An Open Source Documentary Film Project
Call for Videos, Testimonials, Photographs, and other Audio Visual Materials
This project examines new forms of social control including the proliferation of Tasers and the rise of "no-fly" and watch-lists. We are seeking contributions to this project in the form of video, still images, and testimonials. This content will be made available for others to mix and remix into their own documentaries.
Preempting Dissent: Open Sourcing Secrecy
An Open Source Documentary Film ProjectCall for Videos, Testimonials, Photographs, and other Audio Visual Materials
This project examines new forms of social control including the proliferation of Tasers and the rise of "no-fly" and watch-lists. We are seeking contributions to this project in the form of video, still images, and testimonials. This content will be made available for others to mix and remix into their own documentaries.
From Cybertext to Produsage: Functioning and Production of Digital Texts
By Dr Robert Arpo, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied SciencesDate: Monday 30 November 2009
Time: 4pm
Venue: Helmore 252, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
All welcome.
Norwegian Espen Aarseth formulated his theory of cybertext and ergodic literature in mid 1990s and focused his attention on how user, verbal sign and medium form a textual machine called cybertext. His point of view to the digital texts was user oriented, but the user was seen as an individual reader, whose actions were in the center of textual meaning construction.
Australian Axel Bruns has been formulating his theory of produsage recently and in context of so called social media. Bruns' point of view raises questions on collective production of digital texts and is linked strongly to the dynamics of participatory economy.
When we look at theories of Aarseth and Bruns, they show us the changes in thinking on digital cultures. Nowadays technologies give users much more freedom to produce their own digital contents whereas in 1990s user did not have access to, for example, source code of a publication platform like the situation is now with open access applications. Freedom brings also the need for taking responsibility of one's own actions. Produser cultures are good examples of ways to control, direct and negotiate practices and principles in collective digital content production communities.
Robert Arpo PhD is Principal Lecturer in MA programme for Media Production and Management, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. His research interests are in the area of virtual communities, digital dialogue, theories of information society and social media.
ARCDigital guest talk: Professor Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Media Archaeology - Method and Machine
Date: Wednesday 18 November 2009Time: 5pm
Venue: Helmore 302, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Media archaeology is both a research method in media studies and an aesthetics in media arts. Furthermore it is a non-human procedure as well. Media archaeology does not look at media on the level of their surface effect on humans (interfaces), but rather (in a vaguely Heideggerian sense) tries to uncover the hidden agenda of technomathematical artefacts, or better: artefactuality. Media archaeology is concerned with media not only on their structural but on their operative level.
Wolfgang Ernst is professor of media theories at Humboldt-University, Berlin. Studied history, classics, and archaeology; Ph.D. thesis 1989 on historicism and museology. His current research fields include time-based and time-critical media and the "sonic" dimension of techno-mathematics.
The event is sponsored by the Cultures of Digital Economy institute at Anglia Ruskin University.
A video screening and panel discussion
Remix Culture and Collaborative Media Making
Date: 10 November 2009
Time: 1-3pm
Venue: Helmore 252, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Screening of the award winning film RIP: A Remix Manifesto, followed by a panel discussion on open source and collaborative media making. The panel members will be:
Greg Elmer, CODE Digital Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University and Ryerson University, Toronto
Brett Gaylor, "RIP" Director, and founder of Open Source Cinema
Sandra Gaudenzi, University of the Arts, London
Sponsored by the Cultures of Digital Economy Initiative, (Anglia Ruskin University), and the Infoscape Research Lab, Ryerson University, Toronto.
Space is limited - please come early.
For more information please contact Dr Greg Elmer.
Remix Culture and Collaborative Media Making
Date: 10 November 2009Time: 1-3pm
Venue: Helmore 252, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Screening of the award winning film RIP: A Remix Manifesto, followed by a panel discussion on open source and collaborative media making. The panel members will be:
Greg Elmer, CODE Digital Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University and Ryerson University, Toronto
Brett Gaylor, "RIP" Director, and founder of Open Source Cinema
Sandra Gaudenzi, University of the Arts, London
Sponsored by the Cultures of Digital Economy Initiative, (Anglia Ruskin University), and the Infoscape Research Lab, Ryerson University, Toronto.
Space is limited - please come early.
For more information please contact Dr Greg Elmer.
ARCDigital co-director to talk at Amsterdam University
Reader in Media Studies and ARCDigital co-director Dr Jussi Parikka has been invited to give a talk at Amsterdam University ASCA institute as part of the Imagined Futures research group. In the ASCA Matinee on Friday 30 October, Parikka will talk about his current research into media ecologies and media archaeology.
The talk, entitled 'Dead Media/Live Nature: Media Ecologies of Animal Intensities,' focuses on the transpositions of media and nature through recent art projects such as Harwood, Wright and Yokokoji's 'Eco Media' (Cross Talk) and Garnet Hertz's 'Dead Media lab.'
In November, Parikka will also give a talk on media ecology at Salford University.
A film screening by four experimental film/videomakers: Neil Henderson, Jennifer Nightingale, Samantha Rebello and Simon Payne
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Time: 5pm
Venue: Ruskin 203 (above the Ruskin Gallery) Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Free event - all welcome.
The screening will be followed by a discussion chaired by A.L. Rees
Neil, Jennifer, Samantha and Simon teach on the Communication, Film and Media Studies Programme at Anglia Ruskin University. A.L. Rees is a Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art.
More information available on the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media news and events page.
This event is supported by the University Arts Council.
ARCDigital advisory board member Jodi Dean's new book published by Duke University Press
Professor Jodi Dean's Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton presidency.
Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She is the author of 'Zizek's Politics, Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy', and 'Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace'.
Professor Jodi Dean's Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton presidency.
Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She is the author of 'Zizek's Politics, Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy', and 'Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace'.
A talk by Dr Joyce Shintani, Design University of Karlsruhe
Digital Music in Media Art: Highlights, Trends and Aesthetic Implications
Date: 29 September 2009
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: Helmore 351, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
The historic cloisonné quality of art research and academic training is reflected to varying degrees in its festivals and trade fairs. But since the advent of micro and DIY electronics, practitioners of art have increasingly crossed such boundaries with ease. To what extent are these practices reflected in festivals and shows today? In 2009, musicologist Joyce Shintani visited Art Basel, Sonár (Barcelona) and Ars Electronica (Linz). Her lecture "Digital Music in Various Media Art 2009" uses slides, video and audio clips to illustrate some highlights and suggests trends and aesthetic implications from a musicological perspective.
Digital Music in Media Art: Highlights, Trends and Aesthetic Implications
Date: 29 September 2009Time: 4-5pm
Venue: Helmore 351, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
The historic cloisonné quality of art research and academic training is reflected to varying degrees in its festivals and trade fairs. But since the advent of micro and DIY electronics, practitioners of art have increasingly crossed such boundaries with ease. To what extent are these practices reflected in festivals and shows today? In 2009, musicologist Joyce Shintani visited Art Basel, Sonár (Barcelona) and Ars Electronica (Linz). Her lecture "Digital Music in Various Media Art 2009" uses slides, video and audio clips to illustrate some highlights and suggests trends and aesthetic implications from a musicological perspective.
AHRC network bid success
ARCDigital (Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture) is happy to announce a successful bid to the AHRC's Research Networking Scheme, submitted by Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka. We have been awarded £36,542 to fund a two year research project 'Exploring New Configurations in Network Politics', which will begin in October 2009. As well as the two year project the funding is intended to generate a permanent on-line research resource in network politics and culture, as part of the ongoing development of ARC Digital.
Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security and Digital Culture: A Research Symposium
Date: Thursday 10th September 2009Time: 11am - 5pm
Venue: Helmore 251, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
ArcDigital's research partner the Justice and Communities Research Unit (JACRU), are hosting a symposium in September. The sessions address:
- trust and digital culture
- end of privacy?
- security, surveillance and rights.
Speakers include Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne), Greg Elmer (Ryerson, Toronto/Anglia Ruskin), Ross Anderson (Cambridge University), Marek Kohn (the author of 'Trust: Self-Interest and the Common Good'), Jon Butterworth (UCL), Brian Rappert (Exeter), David Skinner (ARU) and Monica Whitty (Nottingham).
For more information please contact Dr David Skinner.
Publishing Industry Day
Dr Samantha Rayner, Senior Lecturer in Publishing in the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media organised a highly successful Publishing Industry Day on 15 May 2009.
The event, which attracted over 75 delegates, included a range of guest speakers, provocative debates and practical workshops. Feedback from the day included the following very positive comments:
"The speakers were absolutely inspiring and fantastic - It was great to hear about the breadth and depth of the industry told in such a humorous and human way."
"Mal Peachy (Essential Works), and all from Hart McLeod were brilliant, captivating, full of information and very friendly. Sam Jordison, and Gillian Redfern were very good at answering all those questions and taking a beating for being of a notable sized publishers."
"Chris Hamilton-Emery from Salt was a pleasure to listen to. I was so impressed with the degree of honesty about the industry, I thought the event might be angled towards simply selling the MA in Publishing, but it wasn't, it was a clear and honest account of the sector, roles within and interaction between, and now I wish to be even more involved, so please do pass on my sincere thanks and praise. I will be looking to further contact Hart McLeod, Salt and Essential works in the near future to ask them whether they personally have any room for a work experience person."
For further information on our new MA in Publishing, please contact Dr Samantha Rayner.
For a full programme of events please see the flyer below:
Dr Samantha Rayner, Senior Lecturer in Publishing in the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media organised a highly successful Publishing Industry Day on 15 May 2009.
The event, which attracted over 75 delegates, included a range of guest speakers, provocative debates and practical workshops. Feedback from the day included the following very positive comments:
"The speakers were absolutely inspiring and fantastic - It was great to hear about the breadth and depth of the industry told in such a humorous and human way."
"Mal Peachy (Essential Works), and all from Hart McLeod were brilliant, captivating, full of information and very friendly. Sam Jordison, and Gillian Redfern were very good at answering all those questions and taking a beating for being of a notable sized publishers."
"Chris Hamilton-Emery from Salt was a pleasure to listen to. I was so impressed with the degree of honesty about the industry, I thought the event might be angled towards simply selling the MA in Publishing, but it wasn't, it was a clear and honest account of the sector, roles within and interaction between, and now I wish to be even more involved, so please do pass on my sincere thanks and praise. I will be looking to further contact Hart McLeod, Salt and Essential works in the near future to ask them whether they personally have any room for a work experience person."
For further information on our new MA in Publishing, please contact Dr Samantha Rayner.
For a full programme of events please see the flyer below:
New research fellow joins ARCDigital
We are happy to announce that Professor Greg Elmer (Ryerson University, Canada) has joined Anglia Ruskin and ARCDigital for the next year as the first Research Fellow for the Cultures of Digital Economy (CoDE) institute. Professor Elmer is the Director of Infoscape Lab. His research and teaching focus on new media and politics, information and communication technologies, computer networks, and media globalisation.
Professor Elmer's scholarly publications have appeared in the peer reviewed journals 'First Monday', 'New Media & Society', 'Screen', 'Convergence', and 'Scan'. He has published a number of books: 'Prempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future', Andy Opel co-author (2008, ARP Press), 'Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy' (2005: MIT Press), 'Critical Perspectives on the Internet' (2002: Rowman and Littlefield), 'Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting', Mike Gasher co-editor (2005: Rowman and Littlefield), and Locating Migrating Media (Lexington Press). Elmer is currently working on a book entitled 'Disaggregating the Net' (Rowman & Littlefield). He serves on the editorial board of 'New Media & Society', 'The Information Society', 'Space and Culture', and the 'American Communication Journal'.
We are happy to announce that Professor Greg Elmer (Ryerson University, Canada) has joined Anglia Ruskin and ARCDigital for the next year as the first Research Fellow for the Cultures of Digital Economy (CoDE) institute. Professor Elmer is the Director of Infoscape Lab. His research and teaching focus on new media and politics, information and communication technologies, computer networks, and media globalisation.
Professor Elmer's scholarly publications have appeared in the peer reviewed journals 'First Monday', 'New Media & Society', 'Screen', 'Convergence', and 'Scan'. He has published a number of books: 'Prempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future', Andy Opel co-author (2008, ARP Press), 'Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy' (2005: MIT Press), 'Critical Perspectives on the Internet' (2002: Rowman and Littlefield), 'Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting', Mike Gasher co-editor (2005: Rowman and Littlefield), and Locating Migrating Media (Lexington Press). Elmer is currently working on a book entitled 'Disaggregating the Net' (Rowman & Littlefield). He serves on the editorial board of 'New Media & Society', 'The Information Society', 'Space and Culture', and the 'American Communication Journal'.
Cuddling With the Biodigital: Lynn Hershman's Teknolust and Embodied Non-Human Agencies
Date: 14 July 2009Time: 8.30am-6pm
Venue: Educational Development Building (EDB 315), University of Sussex, UK
A talk by ARCDigital co-founder Dr Jussi Parikka, as part of the Biodigital lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of technoscience conference at University of Sussex.
A talk by Dr Lincoln Dahlberg of University of Queensland, Australia
Radicalising the Public Sphere
Date: Friday 5 June 2009
Time: 5pm
Venue: Helmore 251
Jürgen Habermas' deliberative conceptualization of the public sphere has become influential in media and communication studies, and increasingly so with the rapid expansion of global digital communication networks. However, the Habermasian public sphere has also come under sustained criticism, particularly from feminist and post-structuralist theorists, for excluding voices that do not 'fit' the universal normative criteria deemed to define ideal deliberation. This discussion explores how we might be able to re-imagine the public sphere concept so as to account for the politics associated with such exclusion, and so be able to continue to deploy the concept in a radicalized form for critical media-democracy analysis. It conceives of a radicalized public sphere through articulating discourse theory's (specifically Ernesto Laclau's) understandings of discourse and radical democratic ethics, along with counter-public sphere theory (most prominently developed in the work of Nancy Fraser).
The claim is that such articulation can account for the politics of exclusion in deliberative publics, the democratic possibilities of such politics, and the normative role of the media there-in. However, Dahlberg will also question how adequate such a discourse theoretic radicalization is for conceiving of strong democracy in the context of global capitalism, where politics seems to be increasingly colonized by instrumentalized and individualized logics. The discussion will be concluded by exploring this question, focusing upon the culture/economy binary, dislocations in capitalism, and opportunities afforded by contemporary media, particularly digital networks.
Radicalising the Public Sphere
Date: Friday 5 June 2009Time: 5pm
Venue: Helmore 251
Jürgen Habermas' deliberative conceptualization of the public sphere has become influential in media and communication studies, and increasingly so with the rapid expansion of global digital communication networks. However, the Habermasian public sphere has also come under sustained criticism, particularly from feminist and post-structuralist theorists, for excluding voices that do not 'fit' the universal normative criteria deemed to define ideal deliberation. This discussion explores how we might be able to re-imagine the public sphere concept so as to account for the politics associated with such exclusion, and so be able to continue to deploy the concept in a radicalized form for critical media-democracy analysis. It conceives of a radicalized public sphere through articulating discourse theory's (specifically Ernesto Laclau's) understandings of discourse and radical democratic ethics, along with counter-public sphere theory (most prominently developed in the work of Nancy Fraser).
The claim is that such articulation can account for the politics of exclusion in deliberative publics, the democratic possibilities of such politics, and the normative role of the media there-in. However, Dahlberg will also question how adequate such a discourse theoretic radicalization is for conceiving of strong democracy in the context of global capitalism, where politics seems to be increasingly colonized by instrumentalized and individualized logics. The discussion will be concluded by exploring this question, focusing upon the culture/economy binary, dislocations in capitalism, and opportunities afforded by contemporary media, particularly digital networks.
127 Haiku
Date: Sunday 10 May 2009Time: 12.00 noon
Venue: Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge
Admission free.
One Hundred and Twenty-seven Haiku. Sound art and poetry performance with technology. Music and performances by Tom Hall, Richard Hoadley, Katharine Norman, Katy Price and special guests including Mifune Tsuji, violin.
As a poetic form, Japanese Haiku poetry is known for combining brevity with a strict formal structure in which rich poetic imagery can flourish. The music in this concert takes Haiku as a starting point for musical, textual and visual explorations, in which the notion of the arrangement and recombination of fragments plays a strong part. The concert will include projections of text and images accompanied by musical and poetic soundscapes comprised of electronic sources, the human voice and acoustic instruments.
A talk by Professor Gary Genosko
Félix Guattari and Infoculture
Date: Tuesday 21 April 2009
Time: 5pm
Venue: Hel 251
Gary Genosko is the author of 'Félix Guattari: A Critical Introduction' (Pluto, 2009), 'The Party Without Bosses: Guattari and Lula' (Arbeiter Ring, 2003), 'Félix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction' (Continuum, 2002), and editor of 'Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments' (Routledge, 2001) and 'The Guattari Reader' (Blackwell, 1996). He is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Félix Guattari and Infoculture
Date: Tuesday 21 April 2009Time: 5pm
Venue: Hel 251
Gary Genosko is the author of 'Félix Guattari: A Critical Introduction' (Pluto, 2009), 'The Party Without Bosses: Guattari and Lula' (Arbeiter Ring, 2003), 'Félix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction' (Continuum, 2002), and editor of 'Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments' (Routledge, 2001) and 'The Guattari Reader' (Blackwell, 1996). He is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Dissident Island-radio talk on alternative media production
Date: Tuesday 24 March 2009Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Hel 251, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Guest speakers: Leila Chickpea and Patrick Campbell
Dissident Island is a DIY anarchist / activist station broadcasting live from the London Social Centre scene every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. Their shows focus on social and environmental campaigns, along with issues relevant to anti-authoritarian people and groups; show material includes interviews, panel discussions, activist news, reports on actions and happenings, vegan recipes, self-produced and written plays, live DJ sets and much more. Last summer, Dissident Island also set up a radio station at the 2008 Climate Camp at Kingsnorth.
Event organized by Kirsten Forkert, the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital) and the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media.
Kindly sponsored by Anglia Ruskin Arts Council.
For more information please contact Dr Jussi Parikka.
Dangerous Modulations: Grace Jones' "Corporate Cannibal"
Date: Tuesday 17 March 2009Time: 5pm
Venue: Rackham 011, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)
Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. Professor Shaviro is known for his books on film theory, ('The Cinematic Body'), 'theoretical fiction', ('Doom Patrols'), The Network Society ('Connected, Or, What it Means to Live in the Network Society') and various articles on cultural theory and media. His new book, 'Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics', is expected to appear in Spring 2009 from MIT Press.
Constructing the Common: The Politics of Cooperation in Digital Activism
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2009Time: 5-6pm
Venue: Trent B40, University of Nottingham
A talk by ARCDigital co-founder Joss Hands, as part of the University of Nottingham's Centre for Critical Theory research seminar series.
Time in Media Arts: A Symposium on Film, Video, Sound and Movement
Date: 28th November 2008Time: 10am - 6pm
Venue: Coslett 117, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Through a combination of talks and discussions between theorists and practitioners, the symposium gives a unique insight into the importance of time and temporality in media arts and theory. The notion of "time based media arts" is approached from a number of different but intersecting areas and disciplines, including film, video, music and dance, and digitality, with theoretical presentations giving a glimpse of emerging concepts concerning temporality in these media.
The presentations take as their starting point the defining primacy of temporality. Film and video tap into the logic of time directly, similarly sonic arts can offer an understanding of the modulations and fluctuations of temporality in the contexts of technical media. Dancing bodies in movement are defined by variation as a creative force of time, and media theoretical notions relating to the singularity of moment resonate with conceptual art. Charlie Gere who is the author of Digital Culture (2002) and Art, Time and Technology (2006) as well as a co-editor of an anthology on British Computer Art (White Heat, Cold Logic: Early British Computer Art) will address the text-based paintings and conceptual art of On Kawara through ideas that stem from Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. In addition to other speakers, the day includes a programme of video works by the British pioneer of experimental video, David Hall.
The symposium is also the inaugural event of the recently founded Anglia Research Centre for Digital Culture (ARCDigital).
Convenors: Dr Jussi Parikka and Dr Simon Payne.
Colour Field Film and Video
Date: 21-22nd November 2008Venue: London Tate Modern
These two programmes look at the myriad ways in which 'colour fields' have been explored in artists' films and videos. The work included spans the history of experimental film and video, from some of the earliest avant-garde films of the 1920s to contemporary digital abstraction. Links are explored between these films and videos and certain trends in abstract painting, from constructivist aesthetics through to colour field painters, including Mark Rothko. The use of colour in the works that comprise these programmes is sometimes celebratory or playful, but always critical and direct. Both programmes are curated by Dr Simon Payne of Anglia Ruskin University.
Kinetic Colour, Friday 21 November 2008, 7 pm
The films and videos in this programme use colour in swathes, lines, bits, or frame-by-frame, engaging every portion of the screen. They involve abstract paradigms related to painterly aesthetics, weaving and digital synthesis. The animation, flicker and modulation of fields and frames of colour create experiences that are vivid and distinctly phenomenal.
Contrasting Surfaces, Saturday 22 November 2008, 7 pm
This programme presents films and videos that explore different relationships between the substance of the recorded image and the flat coloured surface of the screen, which is often accentuated by filters or mattes. In some of the films, such as MING GREEN and COLOR AID, the subject matter itself refers to flat surfaces of colour. In many of the other pieces the prominence of the grain or pixels, and the use of printing processes or compositing, sets up an interplay between the layers of the image and screen.
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions, Box Office: 020 7887 8888
For more information please visit the Tate Galleries website.
Just Killing Time. What is Game Addiction?
A talk by leading game studies theorist and author Espen AarsethDate: 21st October 2008
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Helmore 251
Professor Aarseth is Associate Professor at the Center for Computer Game Research, IT University of Copenhagen and a major figure in the emerging fields of video game studies and electronic literature, as well as author of the groundbreaking "Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature" and co-founding Editor-in-Chief of Game Studies (gamestudies.org), the first academic journal of computer game research. He is currently working on an ontological theory of games in virtual environments.
Event organized by the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ARC Digital) and sponsored by FDMX.
For more information please contact Dr Jussi Parikka.
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