[ecrea] CFP: Media Archaeology & Technological Debris - Postgraduate Workshop & Conference CFP

Media Archaeology & Technological
Debris
Postgraduate
Workshop & Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS
Thursday,
June 20 – Friday, June 21, 2013 – Goldsmiths,

University of London

http://www.technologicaldebris.info/

CALL

FOR PAPERS

Postgraduate

Workshop & Conference: Media Archaeology and Technological Debris
Thursday,

June 20 – Friday, June 21, 2013 – Goldsmiths, University of London

This

workshop aims to bring academics and PhD students together to discuss
emerging research projects on the field of media studies. It means to
combine the thriving approach of media archaeology with the growing
environmental concerns about technological debris,

emphasizing the complementary character of these topics in the
construction of a material understanding of media practices’ past,
present and future. We expect to gather a number of emerging
investigations that can shed new light over the socio-political,

economic, cultural, technological, material and aesthetic dimensions of
the continuous phenomena of novelty and obsolescence of media systems.
In doing so, we also hope to create conditions to examine the systems
of relationship formulated around these topics,

paying particular attention to the regimes of value that define media
objects either as museum artifacts or as rubbish in different
global/local contexts (such as Europe and Latin America).

10-15

PhD students will be selected to participate. The workshop itself will
last for two days: The first day will be composed of closed reading
groups in which the seasoned researchers will act as respondents and
mediators for the presentation of the participating

students, while the second day will be a small conference open to the
public. As such, the workshop intends to create a platform for
exchanging ideas and research methods upon this interdisciplinary field.

The

event is being organized by students and graduates of Goldsmiths'
Department of Media and Communications, and is sponsored by Goldsmiths'
Graduate School.

Confirmed

speakers: Sean Cubitt (Media & Comms, Goldsmiths); Graham Harwood
(Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths); Jennifer Gabrys (Sociology,
Goldsmiths); Jussi Parikka (Media & Design, University of
Southampton); Gabriel Menotti (Audiovisual, UFES); and people from
Access

Space (Sheffield).

Possible

themes include:


    *
      archaeological

      and anarchaeological research
    *
      the

      repurposing of old devices (for fun & profit & art)
    *
      programmed

      obsolescence and the temporality of materials and technologies
    *
      precarious

      technical milieus
    *
      artifact

      materiality and value
    *
      media

      museography and historiography
    *
      transnational

      contexts for zombie media
    *
      industrial

      media and environmental hazards
    *
      practices

      and economies of recycling technology
    *
      electronic

      recycling and archiving of technological artifacts
    *
      qualities,

      histories and applications of media systems and media ecologies
    *
      global

      and local economic forces in cycles of innovation and decay


To

apply, please submit a text document containing a title, a brief
description of your project (no more than 250 words), and a brief
biography to

(mediaarchdebris /at/ gmail.com)

by Sunday, April 21, 17:00 GMT.

For

more information, see: http://www.technologicaldebris.info


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