[ecrea] Conference: Touching the Screen (University of Oslo, April 28)

*​​​​​​Touching the Screen (University of Oslo, April 28)*

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*How do current practices of physically touching screens transform our
relations to media technologies and their images? **Bringing together an
interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars and artists, the one-day
conference */*Touching the Screen*/*aims to trace the genealogies and
implications of today’s touchscreens and their formatting of images and
the senses. *

**Please s**ee details below, and make sure to register before we get
fully booked!*​*

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As touchscreens and haptic interfaces are becoming ubiquitous in
everyday life, our sensory engagement with media technologies changes.
Most obviously, the sense of touch is coordinated with vision in new
ways. This in turn has consequences for our embodied relation to media,
in particular to their screens and images. As witnessed in recent film
and video art, artists have begun to explore some of the novel exchanges
between the sensing body and images that touchscreens afford. In art,
film and media theory, visual and linguistic paradigms are currently
being supplemented by theorization of embodied media experience centered
on sense perceptions other than the purely visual, with touch featuring
prominently.


/Touching the Screen /will explore media archaeological, media
theoretical and artistic ramifications of current practices of screen
touching, and the potentially new bodily and epistemological
configurations brought on by these.

*Speakers: Michael Bell-Smith (New York), Mika Elo (Helsinki), *Victoria
Fu (Los Angeles/San Diego), *David Parisi (Charleston), Wanda Strauven
(Amsterdam), Susanne M. Winterling (Berlin/Oslo).*


The conference will take place at the University of Oslo (Blindern
Campus) in the Helga Engs hus (auditorium 3).


*Please note:* the conference is open to all interested, but
participation requires registration***here*
<https://epay.uio.no/pay/shop/order-create.html?projectStepId=5203033>.
The conference fee of NOK 130 covers lunch as well as beverages.
Registration closes on April 21, or when the event is fully booked.


Please see our website
<http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2015/touching-the-screen.html>for 

further details and updates.


Organizers: IFIKK, University of Oslo, and IMK, University of Oslo.


Questions may be addressed to Susanne Ø. Sæther: (s.o.sather /at/ ifikk.uio.no)
<mailto:(s.o.sather /at/ ifikk.uio.no)>or Victoria Fu: (victoriacfu /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(victoriacfu /at/ gmail.com)>. For practical matters, contact
conference coordinator Ellef Prestsæter: (ellef.prestsater /at/ ifikk.uio.no)
<mailto:(ellef.prestsater /at/ ifikk.uio.no)>.
<mailto:(ellef.prestsater /at/ ifikk.uio.no)>


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