Tuesday 7th June, 5pm till 8pm, Pervasive Media Studio, Leadworks, Anchor Square,
Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5DB
http://unfoldingmedia.eventbrite.com/
The Digital Culture Research Centre and the Department of
Culture, Media and Drama at the University of the West of England invite you
to a convivial evening of discussion on contemporary flowerings of creative and
critical research in new media and technoculture.
Laura U. Marks
will talk about the key ideas in her new book Enfoldment and Infinity: an Islamic genealogy of new media art and their implications for our
understanding of new media art and digital cultures today.
Laura is Dena Wosk
University Professor in Art and Culture Studies in the School for the
Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She is also the author of The
Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses and Touch:
Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media.
The event will also launch the book The New Media and Technocultures Reader, edited by Seth Giddings
and Martin Lister (Routledge 2011).
Unfolding New Media is free, but places are limited and must
be booked. Please go to http://unfoldingmedia.eventbrite.com/
http://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks/
http://www.enfoldment.net/
Dr Seth Giddings
Dept of Culture, Media & Drama
University of the West of England
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