[ecrea] On Faces: An AMT Symposium with Grant Bollmer

*On Faces: An AMT Symposium with Grant Bollmer*

27th of November at* Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton *
2-4pm *LTA*
4-5pm *Rotunda*

Faces mediate how we relate to one another, not only in each other’s 
physical presence but also as photographic and digital images of 
recognition and identification. This symposium establishes a scholarly 
dialogue between artistic and documentarian engagements with the face by 
bringing together key research and practices that pertain to media and 
visual studies.

Our guest speaker is*Grant Bollmer *(NCSU, USYD) whose talk “*Books of 
Faces: From the Optical Unconscious to Object Metadata*” excavates a 
history of the face which is shaped by exclusions and deviations. 
Bollmer’s paper surveys the symptomatic condition of the facial image 
across three centuries, from the emergence of photography to Facebook. 
In response to the lecture, scholars from WSA will share their past and 
current research projects on faciality. AMT doctoral candidates *Eda 
Sancakdar Onikinci *and*Yiğit Soncul *will address how they utilise 
facial images in their projects, which look at the veil and photographic 
portraiture, and the contemporary media ecology of the face. *Alessandro 
Ludovico* will be sharing his artistic collaboration with Paolo Cirio, 
“Face to Facebook” and situate it in relation to the contemporary 
debates. The day will conclude with a round table chaired by Professor 
*Jussi Parikka*.

The event will be convened by Yiğit Soncul as part of *Archaeologies of 
Media and Technology* research group. Please contact 
(yigit.soncul /at/ soton.ac.uk) 
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*Grant Bollmer* is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North 
Carolina State University, where he teaches in the Department of 
Communication and the Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and 
Digital Media, and is an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media 
and Communications at the University of Sydney. He is the author of the 
book /Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of 
Connection/(2016), and is currently completing a manuscript titled 
/Theorizing Digital Cultures/.

*Yiğit Soncul* is a PhD candidate and Visiting Lecturer in Global Media 
at WSA. Previsouly a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney, his 
work appeared in journals /Theory, Culture & Society/and /Between/.

*Eda Sancakdar* *Onikinci* is a PhD candidate at WSA. She previously 
taught and conducted research at Istanbul Bilgi University and 
Bahcesehir University.

*Alessandro Ludovido* is Associate Professor in Art, Design and Media at 
WSA, as well as chief editor since 1993 of /Neural/, critical digital 
culture magazine and one of the authors of the award-winning and 
internationally exhibited trilogy of artworks Hacking Monopolism (Google 
Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook).

*Jussi Parikka *is Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics at 
WSA and the co-director of AMT. Most recently, he published the book /A 
Geology of Media/ (2015), which was a Choice-magazine "outstanding 
academic title for 2015".


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