Dear members,
 
Please find below info about the latest Salford CCM Screens and Mediations seminar series.......
 
Michael
 
 
Screens and Mediations Seminar Series 2009

5:00 - 6:30pm

 

Wednesday 4th November, Jussi Parikka, Anglia Ruskin University

Room AH012 Adelphi House

Media Ecologies of Animal Intensities: Ecosophy and Media Studies


This paper focuses on the transpositions of media and nature through recent art projects such as Harwood, Wright and Yokokoji's Eco Media (Cross Talk) and Garnet Hertz's Dead Media lab. The Eco Media project developed new modes of thinking media (ecology) through a tracking of the intensities of nature. However, in this case the medium is understood in a very broad sense to cover the ecosystem as a communication network of atmospheric flows, tides, reproductive hormones, scent markers, migrations or geological distributions. The project(s) do not focus solely on the ecological crisis that has been a topic of media representations for years, but they seem to engage with a more immanent level of media ecology in a manner that resembles Matthew Fuller's call for "Art for Animals." Media is approached from the viewpoint of animal perceptions, motilities and energies (such as wind) that escapes the frameworks of "human media." In this context the rhetorical question of the Ecomed!
ia project concerning non-human media is intriguing: "Can 'natural media' with its different agencies and sensorium help to rethink human media, revealing opportunities for action or areas of mutual interest?" In other words, media of animals and nature becomes an "ecosophical" (Guattari) probe head for such intensities that escape that of the human being; a machine for experimentation.

Despite the focus on the old media of nature, such a project is emblematic of concerns that stem from a high-tech network culture. Ideas stemming from animal worlds and nature are increasingly used as tools to understand high tech culture, and they expand the notion of "medium" to take into account nonhuman energies of intensive and topological kinds.

Jussi Parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. He has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and is Reader and Pathway Leader in Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He is also the co-director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital).
Homepage: http://www.jussiparikka.com <https://staffwebmail.salford.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://staffwebmail.salford.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.jussiparikka.com/>  <http://www.jussiparikka.com/ <https://staffwebmail.salford.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://staffwebmail.salford.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.jussiparikka.com/> > .

SEE ALSO: Media Ecologies & Post-Industrial Production Conference 
& launch of the P2P Research Group (an independent collective allied with the P2P Foundation <https://staffwebmail.salford.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives> ), Innovtiton Forum, Tuesday, November 3rd 2009, 8.30 to 18.00 http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/sssi/p2p/index.html