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 [log in to unmask]
‘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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