I’ve gone and done something I always wanted to do: write an ethnography of a conference; to be precise, one of the 2016 ICA conference in Fukuoka, Japan. Now, straight away, the proviso I’d make is that I’ve written one that is quite short and modest (UPDATE: and certainly it doesn’t merit the title of … Continue Reading
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Scott Rodgers
Second Mediapolis essay: ‘Small-gauge as remediating and metamedial’
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
New Mediapolis essay: ‘Small-gauge as environmental and ordinary’
Over at the Mediapolis journal, I have published a short essay as part of a roundtable on the emergent notion of ‘small-gauge’ scholarship. The notion of small-gauge was alluded to in the founding mission statement of this new and experimental journal, and has since generated some substantial interest and debates. This roundtable tries to tackle … Continue Reading
The media-urban nexus: histories, stakes, possibilities (text of keynote paper)
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
Mediating cityscapes symposium at the ICA
This Sunday, 29 May 2016, I will be presenting a keynote paper for ‘Mediating cityscapes’, a symposium being held as part of the Artists’ Film Biennial at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. My paper – titled ‘The media-urban nexus: histories, stakes, possibilities’ – will be an attempt to open up some broad themes around what … Continue Reading
Yuk Hui at Birkbeck on ‘For a Realism of Relations: The Case of Digital Objects’
Very unfortunately I won’t be able to attend this seminar at Birkbeck (though, fortunately, it’s because I will be talking in my first visit to Japan). Looks like an excellent discussion will be had. Full details are below. Yuk Hui – For a Realism of Relations: The Case of Digital Objects The Vasari Research Centre … Continue Reading
Event: What things are, what things do
Next week, on Friday 27 May, Güneş Tavmen and Hannah Barton are organising what looks to be an interesting interdisciplinary seminar titled ‘What things are, what things do’. The event – sponsored by Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture – will host a set of debates around the ‘structuring structures’ of media culture: in … Continue Reading
Event: Digital Us: Are We ‘Together’ in a Networked Culture?
At the very beginning of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016, on 16 May 2016, I will be taking part in an event which touches on familiar themes, but perhaps from new angles and through a juxtaposition of fairly different contributors. While I am going to draw upon some recent small-scale qualitative research I’ve undertaken on the … Continue Reading
Urban media tour: 18 May 2016
After a two-year hiatus, Joel McKim and I are pleased to again lead our (evidently) popular urban media tour of West End London, this year as part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016. As always, we’ll be not only visiting a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries, but also we’ll be discussing … Continue Reading
Tentative techlocalities: paper abstract for forthcoming GeoMedia Speaker Series
Exactly one month from today, I will be fortunate enough to give an invited paper to the GeoMedia Research Group at Karlstad University in Sweden, as part of their GeoMedia Speaker Series. Karlstad University is a quite special place for thinking and talking about the relationships of geography and media since, as far as I … Continue Reading