Below is the text of a keynote paper given on Sunday 29 May 2016 for the ‘Mediating cityscapes’ symposium, held as part of the Artists’ Film Biennial at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It was an informal paper, in which I mainly was asked to open out some issues for the symposium. So I deliberately … Continue Reading
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(Yet) another media city conference: Mediating Cityscapes
With forthcoming conferences in Leeds (Communication and the City) and Helsinki (The Spectacular/Contested/Ordinary Media City), not to mention the special Media and Urban Life (PDF) track in which I recently presented at the Urban Affairs Association conference, it’s been a very busy year for all things media and cities. Now, we can add yet another … Continue Reading
Event next week: The Art Market and the Art Museum
Matthew Morgan, a PhD student who I co-supervise with Ben Cranfield, is organizing an interesting seminar next week on The Art Market and the Art Museum, to be hosted by Birkbeck’s Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. The event, and Matthew’s research, touches in part on the relations museums have with cities as well … Continue Reading
‘Mashing Up’: Art+Labour
My Birkbeck colleague Sophie Hope is co-organising a quite interesting forthcoming public event on 9th Novermber 2010 at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) on the topic of ‘Mashing Up’: Art+Labour. We all hear so much about the cultural and creative industries these days – yes, even still in our current recessionary condition – … Continue Reading
It had to happen eventually…
… the design is ever so generous in providing the space for it. Culture jamming that is. Of the Boris bikes, seen here in Bloomsbury near my office.
Making music with pong (and a mouse-guided theremin)
First of all, I know this is a terrible video. I only have myself and my mobile phone to blame. But I wanted to post this anyway. It’s from OpenNight #4, a night of FLOSS inspired electronic music and video from the people of OpenLab, which was held yesterday at the Fleapit in Hackney. The … Continue Reading
Manovich: visualization, pattern and the objects of the humanities
If the strongest point of the N. Katherine Hayles’ seminar was her superb framing of the theoretical issues, the strongest aspect of Lev Manovich’s talk was that it seemed to gain more and more momentum as time went on. Which is to also say, Manovich got into the swing of things a tad more slowly. … Continue Reading
Hayles: technogenesis, distributed cognition and hyperattention
I thoroughly enjoyed N. Katherine Hayles’ seminar earlier this afternoon at London Southbank University, as part of a double bill with Lev Manovich. Hayles’ talk was rich, and certainly full of more insights than I can recount here. But a couple of basic and I think very interesting ideas were at the core of the … Continue Reading
N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich double bill in London
Recently I wrote about an enticing forthcoming conference at Swansea University on The Computational Turn, which, alas, I was unable to attend. Well, good news has arrived for us all in London, and indeed, the South East of England. The two keynotes of that conference – N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich – have been … Continue Reading
Computing arts and humanities matter
A couple of months ago I noticed this intersesting event, The Computational Turn, which will be held at Swansea University on 9 March 2010. The conference promises a slightly unconventional take on the ‘arts and humanities’, considering the ways in which digital or computation-based technologies and techniques are fundamentally transforming the means and forms through … Continue Reading