Another episode is ready in my new podcast series Media, Technology & Culture exploring computation. I discuss Lev Manovich’s work and the notion of remediation (as well as critiques of both), while also connecting (selectively) to themes in the history of computing. I wrote about this series in my last blog post. Below I have … Continue Reading
On Wednesday 7 June 2017, Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology will be co-hosting a talk from Professor Louise Amoore on the subject of ‘Cloud Futures’. The event – details of which are pasted below – is free and open to all, but booking via … Continue Reading
My second essay within the special Mediapolis roundtable on ‘small-gauge’ scholarship, which has been running over the past few weeks, has now been published. It’s been a really interesting exchange which tries to confront and tease out the emergent notion of small-gauge scholarship, a term contained in the founding mission statement of the journal. If … Continue Reading
An interesting PhD opportunity has emerged out of some nascent cross-disciplinary partnerships being developed at Birkbeck around the theme of ‘sustainability’, understood in a very broad sense. That is, not just the ‘green’ meaning of sustainability associated with biological systems or ecological environments, but a much wider range of systems and environments (from societal health … Continue Reading
Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, … Continue Reading
Prompted by receiving – completely unsolicited I’d add – this month’s GIM International (the ‘global magazine for geomatics’), I thought I better get in a thought I had in the wake of this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Los Angeles; an event for which the sun has definitely set, and soon … Continue Reading
Along with my colleagues Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim – with whom I am co-organising a postgraduate workshop series – I have been invited to partake in a ‘Live Chat’ hosted by the Guardian Higher Education Network. That chat, which takes place on 3 June 2011, addresses the topic ‘Breaching the digital divide: How could … Continue Reading
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
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
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