New Materialisms and Digital Culture
An International Symposium on Contemporary Arts, Media and Cultural Theory
Date: Monday 21 June 2010
Time: 10:00 - 19:30
Venue: Hel 201, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Attendance Fee: £20
Far from being immaterial, digital culture consists of heterogeneous bodies, relations, intensities, movements, and modes of emergence manifested in the various contexts of arts and sciences.
"New materialism" is suggested as a speculative concept with which to engage these explorations across diverse cultural-theoretical fields of inquiry: art and media studies, social and political theorizing, feminist analysis, and science and technology studies.
This event maps the ways in which questions of process, positive difference or the new, relation, and the pervasively aesthetic character of our emergences with the world have lately been taken up in cultural theory. Specifically it concerns studies with digital culture that rethink matter, the body and the social, and the move beyond the dominance of symbolic mediation or the despotism of the signifier.
In order not to reproduce the logic of identity, the event does not attribute 'new materialist' developments exclusively to any single or collaborative authorial name (such as Deleuze-Guattari, despite their crucial influence). New materialisms are rather addressed in a transversal mode. This entails investigating the heterogeneous theoretical inspirations - from process philosophies to re-appropriations of the sciences - they can draw on. It also entails appreciating the singular problems and connections of specific projects.
The talks of the event will address media arts of digital culture, sonic environments, cinematic contexts, wireless communication and a variety of further phenomena in order to develop a new vocabulary for understanding digital culture as a material culture.
Speakers include: Dr Adrian Mackenzie, Dr Stamatia Portanova, Dr Iris van der Tuin, Dr Rick Dolphijn, Dr Satinder Gill, Dr Anna Powell, Dr David Berry and Dr Eleni Ikoniadou.
The academic programme is followed by a physical computing/dance performance involving CoDE affiliated staff (Richard Hoadley and Tom Hall) together with the choreographer Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and their dancers.
Full programme and booking details below:
Date: Monday 21 June 2010
Time: 10:00 - 19:30
Venue: Hel 201, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Attendance Fee: £20
Far from being immaterial, digital culture consists of heterogeneous bodies, relations, intensities, movements, and modes of emergence manifested in the various contexts of arts and sciences.
"New materialism" is suggested as a speculative concept with which to engage these explorations across diverse cultural-theoretical fields of inquiry: art and media studies, social and political theorizing, feminist analysis, and science and technology studies.
This event maps the ways in which questions of process, positive difference or the new, relation, and the pervasively aesthetic character of our emergences with the world have lately been taken up in cultural theory. Specifically it concerns studies with digital culture that rethink matter, the body and the social, and the move beyond the dominance of symbolic mediation or the despotism of the signifier.
In order not to reproduce the logic of identity, the event does not attribute 'new materialist' developments exclusively to any single or collaborative authorial name (such as Deleuze-Guattari, despite their crucial influence). New materialisms are rather addressed in a transversal mode. This entails investigating the heterogeneous theoretical inspirations - from process philosophies to re-appropriations of the sciences - they can draw on. It also entails appreciating the singular problems and connections of specific projects.
The talks of the event will address media arts of digital culture, sonic environments, cinematic contexts, wireless communication and a variety of further phenomena in order to develop a new vocabulary for understanding digital culture as a material culture.
Speakers include: Dr Adrian Mackenzie, Dr Stamatia Portanova, Dr Iris van der Tuin, Dr Rick Dolphijn, Dr Satinder Gill, Dr Anna Powell, Dr David Berry and Dr Eleni Ikoniadou.
The academic programme is followed by a physical computing/dance performance involving CoDE affiliated staff (Richard Hoadley and Tom Hall) together with the choreographer Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and their dancers.
Full programme and booking details below:
You can now book a place at the symposium by visiting the Anglia Ruskin Online Store.
We are also organizing the second day of the event, 22 June, as a small workshop for PhD students with Dr Van der Tuin and Dr Dolphijn, along with Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka. If you are interested, please send an informal message to either Milla or Jussi.
In addition, we are planning a hands on workshop for the Tuesday on experimental performance and physical computing.
The event is sponsored by CoDE: the Cultures of the Digital Economy research institute and the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University.
Convened by Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka.
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