Dear MeCCSA colleagues
A one day symposium we are organizing at the Winchester School of Art (at University of Southampton):
Media Theory in Transit, Symposium
Organised at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton by Jussi Parikka and Yigit Soncul
Tuesday November 24, 2015
PGR Room
Media theory is in transit: its concepts travel across space and time, claiming new meanings for new uses along the way. It is not a static body of knowledge, but a dynamic, situated process of articulating knowledge and perceiving reality. Media theory crosses both geographical and disciplinary boundaries. It trespasses the border between Humanities and Sciences, and is able to carve out new sites of knowledge. It moves across conceptual lineages from human to non-human, and supposedly distinct senses such as sight, hearing and smell. Media theory is not merely a reflection on the world but an active involvement that participates in creating the objects of interest.
This event investigates such conceptual, geographical and sensorial passages of media theory. The talks address contemporary media theory and issues that are now identified as urgent for academic and artistic practices. The speakers represent different fields of arts and humanities as well as media theory, and engage with the question: how does theory move, and itself occupy new areas of interest, across academic fields and across geographies, in which theory itself is set to be in movement.
The event is supported by the Santander-fund, via University of Southampton and the Faculty Postgraduate Research Funds.
Registration: The event is free and open to all, but booking is essential via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-theory-in-transit-symposium-tickets-18948538589
Programme:
10.30 Introduction by Yigit Soncul and Jussi Parikka
10.40 Prof. Erick Felinto (State University of Rio de Janeiro, UERJ):
Vilém Flusser’s ‘Philosophical Fiction’: Science, Creativity and the Encounter with Radical Otherness
11.30 Prof. Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London):
The Liberation of the I/eye: Nonhuman Vision
12.20 Lunch break
14.00 Dr. Shintaro Miyazaki: (Critical Media Lab, Basel):
Models As Agents – Designing Epistemic Diffraction By Spinning-Off Media Theory
14.50 Dr. Seth Giddings (WSA):
Distributed Imagination: Small Steps to an Ethology of Mind and Media
15.20 Prof. Jussi Parikka (WSA):
Labs as Sites of Theory/Practice
15.00 Final Discussion
16.10-16.30 Dr. Jane Birkin (WSA):
The Viewing of Las Meninas” (Performance)
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Media Theory in Transit is a Design & Media Ecologies Lab event.
https://designmediaecologies.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/about/
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