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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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