From a.munster at unsw.edu.au Tue Dec 13 00:47:07 2011 From: a.munster at unsw.edu.au (Anna Munster) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:47:07 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: TONIGHT SYDNEY: Two free talks by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning Message-ID: WHAT: Into the Diagram: Two Public Lectures WHO: Brian Massumi and Erin Manning WHERE: Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woollomooloo, Sydney COST: FREE TIME: Doors open at 5.30pm for a 6pm start Artspace and National Institute of Experimental Arts, CoFA present two lectures by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, leading philosophers and practitioners of movement, affect and relationality. Together their lectures ?Animality and Abstraction? (Massumi) and ?The Dance of Attention? (Manning) explore the virtual, abstract and powerful dimensions of diagrams. Everywhere maps and visualisations of space are multiplying around us as new applications of cartography gain prominence. In a quieter manner, the diagram has also re-emerged as an abstract device for thinking about, generating and re-imagining relations themselves. Unlike maps and the rapidly expanding domain of information visualization, diagrams often seem more obscure modes of picturing and inscribing relations. They hint at something imperceptible, something that lies in wait that we need to make more explicit through further explanation or interpretation. Pictorial and conceptual diagramming is increasingly deployed in collaborative and collective design, architecture, dance and new media practices as a means for facilitating complex cross-modal research and creation. The diagram?s very abstraction allows it to be open, elastic and resonant across practices and modalities. As the philosophers of diagrammatic thought Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari suggest, diagrams exist in the dimension of the virtual and help to construct, ?a real that is yet to come, a new type of reality?. Thinking about the diagram, then, is to think generatively about what can and could be created; by whom ? humans and nonhumans; and under what circumstances ? via collaborative and singular relationships. 13 December 2011, 6pm A/Prof. Anna Munster Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics College of Fine Arts UNSW P.O. Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 612 9385 0741 (tel) 612 9385 0615(fax) a.munster at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From graham.meikle at stir.ac.uk Fri Dec 16 01:41:33 2011 From: graham.meikle at stir.ac.uk (Graham Meikle) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:41:33 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: New book announcement - 'Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life' Message-ID: Hi all, Some colleagues may be interested in this new book by me and Sherman Young, published today. Introduction and TOC available at the 'download sample chapter' link here: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=344515. "Media are what we do. With this deceptively simple yet particularly powerful assertion, Meikle and Young successfully benchmark contemporary media" -- Mark Deuze. "Meikle and Young's 'Media Convergence' is intelligent, sensible, precise and timely" -- David Gauntlett. This book is about how networked digital media are being used to bring together people and ideas, images and texts, industries and technologies in new ways - media convergence. The book explores the development of the Internet, the rise of social media, the global expansion and consolidation of the major media corporations, and the new opportunities for audiences to create, remix, collaborate upon and share their own media. The book focuses on how everyday media - such as Facebook, iTunes, Google and the BBC iPlayer - can be understood in new ways for the twenty-first century through ideas of convergence. Best regards, gm Dr Graham Meikle ---------------------- Senior Lecturer, Communications, Media & Culture, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland. T: +44 (0) 1786 466222 F: +44 (0) 1786 466855 E: W: -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. From andrew.murphie at gmail.com Tue Dec 20 22:56:01 2011 From: andrew.murphie at gmail.com (Andrew Murphie) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:56:01 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?windows-1252?q?The_Fibreculture_Journal_19=97U?= =?windows-1252?q?biquity_Issue=97online?= Message-ID: Dear Readers/Associates of the Fibreculture Journal, We have now launched FCJ 19, the Ubiquity issue, our final issue in what has been we think a very successful year for the Fibreculture Journal. Edited by Ulrik Ekman in Copenhagen, FCJ 19 presents a series of incisive analyses of current and future events/practices in ubiquitous computing. Leading thinkers in the area presented articles on actuated architectures, questions of interaction design, rethinking of computer/human relations, environmental critiques, the scripting of urban space, performative aesthetics, affective experience, pervasive gaming and feral computing. More information below but you can skip to the real thing at? http://nineteen.fibreculturejournal.org/ -- from Ulrik Ekman's extensive editorial? "This is a journal issue invested in remarking more than once upon the undecidability hovering today around our getting into contact with ?ubiquity? or ?pervasiveness? as a potential to be further actualized in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), interaction design, and the cultural life worlds of information societies more generally. It could well be that you have not yet heard of ubiquitous or pervasive computing, or that you have heard of these but still remain in doubt whether there actually is or will be such a thing, in interaction designs or elsewhere. It could also very well be the case, however, that you both know a great deal about this as a rather momentous shift, qua a third wave in computing and associated disciplines, and find yourself engaging with it all around you in your practical life: at work, at home, in leisure activities and games, in the media art at the museum, or in the everyday culture of the public sphere. Affirming this undecidability is a necessity ? since both of these alternatives are currently at stake, and since ?ubiquity? and ubicomp remain potentialities of whose actualization we are not yet sure, whether this is matter of an explicit articulation of the principal ideas or of the concrete lines of development and research making of this so many hands-on facts inherent in the interactions in our contemporary life worlds. In other words, the focus and special merit of this issue is not least to enter into the set of questions surrounding the notion of ?interaction designs for ubicomp cultures? ? as something partaking of that which Michel Foucault would have called ?a history of the present.? This issue engages with an altogether contemporary field of research in order to make a difference that makes a difference while the cultural and technical developments at stake are still undecidable, multiple, and emergent ? at a fast pace, too." Articles include: Ulrik Ekman: Ubiquity Editorial ? Interaction Designs for Ubicomp Cultures Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Karin Bech: Embedding response: self production as a model for an actuated architecture Anders Michelsen: Pervasive Computing and Prosopopoietic Modelling ? Notes on computed function and creative action Simon Penny: Towards a Performative Aesthetics of Interactivity Christian Ulrik Andersen and S?ren Pold: The Scripted Spaces of Urban Ubiquitous Computing: The experience, poetics, and politics of public scripted space Bo Kampmann Walther: Reflections on the Philosophy of Pervasive Gaming?With Special Emphasis on Rules, Gameplay, and Virtuality Matthew Fuller and S?nia Matos: Feral Computing: From Ubiquitous Calculation to Wild Interactions Malcolm McCullough: Toward Environmental Criticism Jonas Fritsch: Affective Experience in Interactive Environments more on FCJ 19?the Ubiquity issue -- "A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead Andrew Murphie - Associate Professor School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Editor - The Fibreculture Journal http://fibreculturejournal.org/> web: http://www.andrewmurphie.org/ http://dynamicmedianetwork.org/ fax:612 93856812 tlf:612 93855548 email: a.murphie at unsw.edu.au room 311H, Webster Building -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: