[ecrea] conference: Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture

You are warmly invited to attend ‘Material Environments: Sensing Time 
and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture’, a conference held on the 
24th and 25th July, at the University of Greenwich, London. Registration 
is free at eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/material-environments-sensing-time-and-matter-in-digital-visual-culture-tickets-17274294881

This conference seeks to explore the points of intersection at which the 
material and the digital, matter and the virtual, and embodiment and 
posthumanism push against each other in visual media. Through encounters 
with cinema, artist’s film and video, installations, and online 
archives, the aim of the conference is to conceive of new relationships 
between temporality, materiality and affectivity, tracing the ways in 
which matter becomes meaningful, or comes to resist meaning, in the 
digital age. We hope to illuminate the new ways in which digital 
experiences allow us to think and sense matter and materiality, while 
reassessing the role of non-digital media in this equation. The 
conference will trace the implications of the posthuman turn in the 
humanities, understood as encompassing a variety of non-anthropocentric 
approaches, on our understanding of matter and affect in visual culture.

Presentations by invited speakers include:

Dr Timothy Barker, On being con-temporary: What technical media studies 
might offer to theories of contemporaneity
Dr Felicity Colman, Digital Gestell: Feminist materialist approaches to 
durational matters
Derek Hales, The possible worlds of atemporal folds
Professor David Martin-Jones, Nonhuman History: Archiving Time and 
Matter in a World of Cinemas
Dr Allan Parsons, Actantial Matters/Design Practice
Professor Joanna Zylinska, Sensing Deep Time: Photography after Extinction

For the full conference schedule, please go to:

http://timadi.org/material_environments/

All Welcome.

The Conference is organised by the ‘Time, Materiality and the 
Digital’ Research Group at the University of Greenwich.

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