[ecrea] Media Theory in Transit - November 24, 2015 - Symposium at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

*Media Theory in Transit**, Symposium*

Organised at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
by Jussi Parikka and YigitSoncul

/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

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*Programme:*

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*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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*Contact*: (yigit.soncul /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(yigit.soncul /at/ gmail.com)>



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