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[ecrea] ACCELERATED LIVING conference

Wed Sep 16 16:52:15 GMT 2009



ACCELERATED = LIVING
CONFERENCE

In the context of the = programme =E2=80=9CAccelerated Living=E2=80=9D, part of <3D.htm>IMPAKT FESTIVAL 2009, 14-18 October = 2009, Utrecht, NL. Preview via <3D.htm>www.diagonalthoughts.com
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Thursday 15 October 2009 / Filmtheater =E2=80=98t Hoogt / 10:00 = =E2=80=93 18:30. Free entrance. Prior registration recommended = via <3D.htm>(rsvp /at/ impakt.nl) (please = indicate your full name and contact details).

The Italian = media philosopher Franco Berardi aka Bifo recently wrote in his = =E2=80=98Post-Futurist Manifest=E2=80=99 (2009) that =C2=ABthe = omnipresent and eternal speed is already behind us, in the Internet, so = we can forget its syncopated rhymes and find our own singular rhythm=C2=BB= . During the past decade the spread of neo liberal globalisation and the = revolution of information and communication technologies have led to a = new temporal dynamics, both in terms of our personal lives and for = society as a whole. The rise of communication networks, stretched = accross time and space, has brought us to realize that clock time =E2=80=93= the long-time regulator of our social lives =E2=80=93 is not an = absolute backdrop against which to communicate and synchronize time, but = a human construction which has little to do with our experience of and = in time. Contemporary science and technology have made possible a = temporality which though still based upon clock time, has exploded into = countless different time fractions and speeds beyond human = comprehension. Today we seem to live in several time zones at the same = time, propelled by a variety of internal and external time mechanisms = and innumerable rhythms which continuously vibrate, resonate, connect, = oscillate and disconnect. How to grasp the temporal complexity that = surrounds and occupies us? What sort of ecologies of time and speed have = we developed under the influence of new technologies and what is their = impact on our body and senses? This conference brings together a number = of international thinkers who offer new perspectives on our contemporary = experience of time and speed.

In collaboration with the MA New = Media & Digital Culture, Department of Media and Culture Studies, = Utrecht University. Introduction: Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Utrecht = University). Moderation: Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Virtueel Platform, = Amsterdam) & Mirko Tobias Schaefer (Utrecht = University).

Participants: Mike Crang, Dirk de Bruyn, = Charlie Gere, Steve Goodman, Carmen Leccardi, Glenn Kaino, Sybille = Lammes, Stamatia Portanova, Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, John = Tomlinson.

Mike Crang (UK) is Lecturer = in cultural geography at Durham University. His research is concerned = with social identity and perception of space, as well as the = transformation of space and time caused by electronic technologies. For = years he co-edited the journal Time & Society and = in 2005 he participated in the project Multispeed Cities and = the Logistics of Living in the Information Age.

Dirk = de Bruyn (NL/AUS) teaches animation and digital culture at = Deakin University in Melbourne, Victoria. The past decades he has = produced a number of films, videos and performances dealing with the = feeling of trauma and disorientation. His recent research focuses on the = functioning of memory systems and perception strategies in situations of = sensorial excess.

Charlie Gere (UK) teaches = New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster = University and is Chair of the group =E2=80=98Computers and the History = of Art=E2=80=99 (CHArt). He=E2=80=99s interested in the cultural effects = and meanings of technology and media, in relation to art and philosophy. = His book Art, Time and Technology (2006) explores = artistic responses to the increasing speed of technological = development.

Steve Goodman (UK) teaches = music culture at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, = University of East London. He runs the master =E2=80=9CSonic Culture=E2=80= =9D and is now working on Sonic Warfare, a theoretical = research on the intersection between war and sound culture. A member of = Ccru (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), under the name of Kode9 he is a = main figure in contemporary breakbeat culture.

Glenn = Kaino (US) is not easy to pin down. A former creative = director for Napster, mastermind of ueber.com, co-founder of the Deep = River Gallery in Los Angeles, visual artist=E2=80=A6 Much like Andy = Warhol, he effortlessly crosses the borders between art and = entertainment, using a variety of media and cultural references. His = installation series =E2=80=98Time Machines=E2=80=99 is the result of a = pronounced fascination with the complexity of = time.

Sybille Lammes (NL) is Assistant = Professor at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Faculty of = Humanities, Utrecht University. She is interested in SF film, games and = digital cartography. In recent years, her research has focused on the = function of computer games as cultural spaces and the impact of digital = maps on the meanings of media and cartography.

Carmen Leccardi (IT) is Professor of Cultural = Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has researched = extensively in the field of time, youth cultures and gender. Recent = publications include Sociologie del tempo. Soggetti e tempo = nella =E2=80=99societ=C3=A0 = dell=E2=80=99accelerazione=E2=80=99 (Sociologies of Time. = Subjects and time in the =E2=80=98acceleration society=E2=80=99) (2009) = and A New Youth? Youth, Generations and Family = Life (2006). She was a former co-editor (1999-2008) of the = journal Time & = Society.

Stamatia Portanova (IT) received her PhD = in Digital Cultures from the East London University, and is now a = Honorary Fellow in English Language and Literature at the University of = Naples =E2=80=9CL=E2=80=99Orientale=E2=80=9D. She is a member of The = Sense Lab (Concordia University, Montreal) and of the editorial board = of Inflexions, the online journal of the Sense Lab. She is = working at the preparation of a monograph on the relationship between = choreography, science and philosophy.

Jon = Thomson and Alison = Craighead (UK) have been working together since the = beginning of the 1990s on an idiosyncratic oeuvre, situated in the = twilight zone between visual art and online media. Most of their work = deals with the influence of new technologies on our experience of time = and perception of the world around us. Thomson teaches at the Slade = School of Fine Art in London, and Craighead lectures at the University = of Westminster and Goldsmiths, University of London.

John = Tomlinson (UK) is Professor of Cultural Sociology and = Director of the Institute for Cultural Analysis, Nottingham (ICAn). He = has published a number of books on the themes of globalisation, = cosmopolitanism and cultural modernity, including Globalization = and Culture (1999). His recent book The Culture of = Speed: The Coming of Immediacy (2007) explores the place of = speed within modern telemediated culture.
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