Conference: MEDIA PLACES, 9-11 Dec, Umeå University, Sweden
From the gardens of Versailles to interactive
architecture. HUMlab will host a conference in
December on the interplay between media,
technology and location. The conference "Media
Places" is about everything from how our homes
and culture changed when television came, to
research into new forms of dynamic materials
and interactive architectures. The conference
takes place from noon on Thursday 9th December
to Saturday afternoon on December 11th 2010.
Among the international guests will be prominent
media scholars Chandra Mukerji (UC San Diego)
and Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University) and
architect Miles Kemp (co-author of the
Interactive Architecture, Princeton University
Press), Jesus de Francisco (art director at the
company Motion Theory), Carter Emmart (American
Museum of Natural History), Erica Robles (New
York University) and Molly Steenson (graduate
student in architecture at Princeton). From
Stanford University Zephyr Frank professor of
Latin American history and one of the leaders of
their Spatial History Project will be
presenting. The conference will be a close
collaboration between Umeå University and
Stanford University on "media places".
From Umeå University presenters will include
Simon Lindgren (Sociology), Anna Johansson
(Culture and Media Studies), Michael Frango
(postdoctoral researcher HUMlab and Language
Studies) and Mikael Wiberg (Design School).
Both Umeå University Vice Chanceller Lena
Gustafsson and Deputy Vice Chacellor Kjell
Jonsson will also participating in the program.
Jennie Olofsson from Luleå University of
Technology (formerly Cultural Analysis program
and HUMlab), who defends her doctoral thesis on
10 December, will give a luncheon lecture on
December 11 at the conference on the thesis
entitled "Welding Robots, Space and Gender".
Registration for the conference can be made via its website
<http://culturetech.se/mediaplaces/>http://culturetech.se/mediaplaces/
Seating is limited. Information about
notification procedures and programs can also be found on the website.
