[cc-community] Conference announcement "Recoded: Landscapes and Politics of New Media" April 25-6 Aberdeen, Scotland

Jay Murphy magic at inch.com
Mon Mar 10 10:59:15 EDT 2008


         										      *******  CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT  *******


The Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen is  
holding a conference on  “Recoded: Landscapes and Politics of New  
Media”  (April 25-26, 2008), featuring many of the international  
leaders in the field: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown);  Sande Cohen  
(CalArts);  Alexander Galloway (NYU);  Ken Goldberg (Berkeley);  Mark  
Hansen (Chicago);  Thomas Keenan (Bard);  Tim Lenoir (Duke);  Tom  
Levin (Princeton); Laura Marks (Simon Fraser);  Colin Milburn  
(Davis); Trevor Paglen (Berkeley); Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli,  
(Aberdeen);  Brian Rotman (OSU);  Julia Scher (Kunsthochschule für  
Medien, Köln); Eugene Thacker (Georgia Tech); Sha-Xin Wei  
(Concordia); Siegfried Zielinski (Universität der Künste, Berlin) and  
commentaries by Mario Biagioli (Aberdeen and Harvard), Arnold  
Davidson (Chicago); Christopher Fynsk (Aberdeen), Peter Galison  
(Harvard), and Alberto Moreiras (Aberdeen and SUNY Buffalo).

The conference program also features the UK premiere of Peter Galison  
and Rob Moss Secrecy (2007) – a 2007 Sundance Festival Selection  
(www.secrecyfilm.com).

The "New Media" is perhaps the most discussed field in the arts and  
the humanities today, reflecting a desire to engage with and  
understand the way in which digital technologies have revolutionized  
the practice of everyday life by becoming an integral part of how we  
work, communicate, understand ourselves, make art as well as war.   
The extraordinary attention received by the new media does not,  
however, come with a consensus about the interpretive frameworks most  
appropriate for these materials, or about the boundaries of the field  
and its connections to other discipline and practices.
This conference aims to promote a serious discussion on the place of  
the new media in modern thought, culture, and the university by  
presenting a broad set of perspectives from academic disciplines and  
art practices, and by bringing together key new media theorists and  
scholars together with theoretically sophisticated practitioners from  
other fields.  New fruitful conceptualizations of the new media and  
its futures are, we believe, most likely to emerge from such  
conversations.

Committed to bypassing the traps set by dichotomies between  
technophilia and technophobia, power and resistance, art and science,  
technology and the human, and other such binaries, the conference  
wants to explore how new media is posing problems to how we think  
about States, institutions, subjects and materiality itself.

Registration information, full program, abstracts, and bios can be  
found at:  www.abdn.ac.uk/modernthought /recoded/

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Mario Biagioli
Chris Fynsk
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