[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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