Nottingham Guest Speaker Series
Generation Net: Arts and Culture in the 21st Century
University of Nottingham
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th May 2009
The first speaker in our interdisciplinary guest speaker series, Professor
Gary Hall, will be speaking on Thursday 7th May. Admission is free. All are
welcome. To book a place at the talk, please email Iain Smith at
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‘Free/Libre Open Media’
Professor Gary Hall
Thursday 7th May 2009, 6pm-7pm followed by refreshments
Room A18 (Arts Graduate Centre) Trent Building, University of Nottingham.
This talk will present a series of performative media projects I term ‘media
gifts’. Operating at the intersections of art, media, critical theory and
continental philosophy, these projects are gifts in that they are part of
the ‘academic gift economy’ which circulates research for free rather than
as market commodities. They are performative in that they are instances of
media that endeavour to produce the effects they name or things of which
they speak and which are engaged primarily through their performance. So
they are a way of practising an affirmative media theory or media
philosophy, where analysis and critique are not abandoned but perhaps take
more creative, inventive forms.
The series currently contains at least eight such ‘gifts’, including:
- an open access archive - http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
- a project experimenting with new ways of organising cultures, communities
and even countries - http://hyper-cyprus.pbwiki.com/Hyper-Cyprus
- a digital ‘book’ - http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
- an internet television programme -
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=46728901
- a project exploring the implications of internet piracy through the
creation of an actual ‘pirate’ text
http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/344/356
- and a model for a radically new kind of online university
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Gary Hall is Professor of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University,
UK. He is author of Culture in Bits (London: Continuum, 2002) and Digitize
This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
(Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2008), and co-editor of New
Cultural Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and
Experimenting: Essays With Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press,
2007). He is founding co-editor of the open access journal Culture Machine
(http://www.culturemachine.net), editor of Berg’s Culture Machine book
series (Oxford), director of the cultural studies open access archive
CSeARCH (http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch), and co-founder of the Open
Humanities Press (http://www.openhumanitiespress.org). His work has appeared
in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Politics, Cultural
Studies, Parallax, and The Oxford Literary Review.
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Part of the Generation Net lecture series. For further information visit
http://generationnet.ning.com/
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
Executive Committee
MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network
website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
Editorial Board
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
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