Along with Myria Georgiou and a whole gang of others, Joel McKim and I have been helping to establish a new (and as-yet unnamed) London research network on media and cities. Like quite a few things in which I’m involved, the network has been on a bit of a slow burn for the past several … Continue Reading
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Jussi Parikka at The Hub: Media Fossils and the Outerspace Anthropocene
This Friday, 24 October, the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, The Hub and the Computer Arts Society will be welcoming media theorist Jussi Parikka to Birkbeck. The lecture takes place in the Keynes Library at 43 Gordon Square, starting at 6pm , and followed by a drinks reception. The event is free but … Continue Reading
GeoMedia 2015: formalizing ‘communication geography’?
Has research ‘carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies’ reached such volume and complexity to necessitate a major international conference which seeks to assess ‘the prospects of communication geography as a more formalized academic field’? Apparently the answer is yes, seeing the advanced call for papers for GeoMedia 2015, which will … Continue Reading
‘Holding Things in Common’ Symposium at Birkbeck
Richard Evans, a PhD student at Birkbeck, is co-organising a postgraduate and early career symposium titled Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects and memory at the Birkbeck Cinema on Monday 12th May. The event includes three panels showcasing a wide range of interesting papers (see schedule below). This will be followed by a … Continue Reading
Video now available for Conditions of Mediation preconference
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
Repeat media tour of West End London on 19 June 2013
On 19 June 2013, Joel McKim and I will be leading a repeat of the media tour we led together for the first time in May (we’re both shown doing so in the photo above – though Joel’s looking away, at the Apple Store – credit to Joe Smith from the OU for taking it). … Continue Reading
Being in the World: a screening and discussion
Next week, on Friday 7 June 2013, I will be hosting a screening and discussion of Being in the World (Tao Ruspoli | USA | 2010 | 81’) through Birkbeck’s Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. Being in the World explores the intimate connections between skilful mastery and the ways in which humans beings … Continue Reading
The mediated city: a tour of media and mediation in West End London
My Birkbeck colleague Joel McKim and I are going to be leading an ‘urban media tour’ of West End London in just over a week, on Wednesday 22 May, 2013. This tour is, in part, based on a tour I originally developed for my undergraduate module The Mediated City, though it’s now being re-purposed (with … Continue Reading
Geography’s digital turn?
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
Big website update over at Conditions of Mediation
Today Tim Markham and I have comprehensively updated the website for the ICA preconference we are co-organizing, titled Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication. Amongst the new information added is: * A provisional conference programme, including abstracts * Biographical details of all presenters and keynote speakers * Complete instructions on how … Continue Reading