[ecrea] New Materialisms and Digital Culture-event in Cambridge at Anglia Ruskin 21/6

>New Materialisms and Digital Culture
>An International Symposium on Contemporary Arts, Media and Cultural Theory
>
>Date: Monday 21 June 2010
>Time: 10:00 - 19:30
>Venue: Hel 201, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
>
>Far from being immaterial, digital culture consists of heterogeneous 
>bodies, relations, intensities, movements, and modes of emergence 
>manifested in various contexts of the arts and sciences.
>
>This event suggests "new materialism" as a speculative concept with 
>which to rethink materiality across diverse cultural-theoretical 
>fields of inquiry with a particular reference to digitality in/as 
>culture: art and media studies, social and political theorising, 
>feminist analysis, and science and technology studies.
>
>More specifically, the event maps ways in which the questions of 
>process, positive difference or the new, relation, and the 
>pervasively aesthetic character of our emergences with the world 
>have lately been taken up in cultural theory. It will engage 
>explorations of digital culture within which matter, the body and 
>the social, and the long-standing theoretical dominance of symbolic 
>mediation (or the despotism of the signifier) are currently being 
>radically reconsidered and reconceptualised.
>
>The talks of the event will probe media arts of digital culture, 
>sonic environments, cinematic contexts, wireless communication, 
>philosophy of science and a variety of further topics in order to 
>develop a new vocabulary for understanding digital culture as a 
>material culture.
>
>Speakers include: Dr David M. Berry, Dr Rick Dolphijn, Dr Satinder 
>Gill, Dr Adrian Mackenzie, Dr Stamatia Portanova, Dr Anna Powell, Dr 
>Iris van der Tuin and Dr Eleni Ikoniadou.
>
>The academic programme will be followed by a physical computing and 
>dance performance involving CoDE affiliated staff (Richard Hoadley 
>and Tom Hall) along with choreographers Jane Turner, Cheryl 
>Frances-Hoad and their dancers.
>
>Following the symposium there will also be a short workshop for PhD 
>students on Tuesday 22 June led by Van der Tuin and Dolphijn along 
>with Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka. The aim of the workshop is to 
>enable students to discuss and present brief intros to their work on 
>the theme of new materialist analysis of culture and the arts with 
>tutoring from the workshop leaders. The workshop is restricted to 
>max. 10 students. Participation for the selected ten is include in 
>the registration fee. If you are interested, please send an informal 
>message to either (milla.tiainen /at/ anglia.ac.uk) or 
>(Jussi.parikka /at/ anglia.ac.uk) along with a short (approx. 1 page) 
>description of your PhD work and its relation to new materialism.
>
>In addition, we are planning an informal introductory workshop for 
>Tuesday afternoon on experimental performance and physical computing.
>
>The event is sponsored by CoDE: the Cultures of the Digital Economy 
>research institute and the Department of English, Communication, 
>Film and Media 
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>at Anglia Ruskin University.
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>Please register your place here: 
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>Programme
>  Anglia Ruskin University. East Road, Cambridge, UK, Helmore 
> Building, room Hel 201
>  June 21, Monday
>10.00 Welcome and what is new materialism, Milla Tiainen and Jussi Parikka
>10.15 Anna Powell (Manchester Met): Electronic Automatism: Video 
>Affects and The Time Image
>11.10 Break
>11.30 Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht): A Different Starting Point, a 
>Different Metaphysics": Reading Bergson and Barad Diffractively
>Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht): The Intense Exterior of Another Geometry
>12.30 Lunch
>13.45 Stamatia Portanova (Birkbeck): The materiality of the abstract 
>(or how movement-objects 'thrill' the world)
>  Eleni Ikoniadou: Transversal digitality and the relational 
> dynamics of a new materialism
>Satinder Gill (Anglia Ruskin/CoDE and Cambridge University): 
>"Rhythms and sense-making in responsive dense-space'
>15.20 break
>15.40 David Berry (Swansea): Software Avidities: Latour and the 
>Materialities of Code.
>16.10 Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster) Believing in and desiring data: R 
>as ' next big thing
>17.00 closing and a break
>18.00 Open launch and drinks event for the Digital Performance 
>laboratory (CoDE, Music and Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin) and a 
>science-arts interdisciplinary performance Triggered. Recital-hall, 
>Helmore Building (029), East Road, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge.
>'Triggered' showcases the results of a practice-as-research project 
>into methods of interdisciplinary collaboration between a group of 
>contemporary  dancers, musicians and music technologists. The nature 
>of this collaboration has allowed performance to emerge from artists 
>and disciplines interacting and responding to each other. The 
>bespoke technologies used in the project enable sophisticated 
>dialogue between movement and sound, between music composition and 
>choreography. The nature of interaction and narratives created are 
>key areas of investigation and these areas will explored in a 
>workshop on the second day of the conference. Performing, 
>choreographing, composing and building the production are Cheryl 
>Frances-Hoad, Tom Hall, Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner & dance company.
>
>Day 2 (June 22)
>10.00-12.30
>New materialism: art, science, media -workshop with selected PhD students with
>Dr Iris van der Tuin and Rick Dolphijn, along with Milla Tiainen and 
>Jussi Parikka
>12.30-14.00 lunch
>14.00 an experimental performance/HCI workshop and interaction 
>possibility with Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Dr Satinder Gill, 
>Dr Richard Hoadley and Dr Tom Hall.
>
>
>
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