From ned at nedrossiter.org Tue Nov 25 23:12:24 2014 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:12:24 -0300 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Digital Life research seminar - UWS Message-ID: <5474FEC8.1030304@nedrossiter.org> Digital Life research seminar Institute for Culture and Society in conjunction with Digital Humanities Research Group University of Western Sydney Tuesday 2 December 2014 Time: 11am-4pm Venue: EZ.2.14 (Elizabeth Macquarie room), Parramatta (South) Campus 11am-1pm: Professor Roger Burrows, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 1pm-2pm: Lunch 2pm-4pm: Associate Professor Michael Darroch, Media Art Histories and Visual Culture, University of Windsor Please RSVP to Christy Nguy C.Nguy at uws.edu.au by 27 November so that catering can be organised. Speaker 1 Professor Roger Burrows, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London Title ?Living by Numbers? Metrics, Algorithms and the Sociology of Everyday Life? Abstract This talk will focus on the role digital data has in restructuring our everyday lives. As individuals, we are all too aware of the identities created for us by business and commerce based on what, when and how we buy. As professionals, we are faced with a growing number of performance metrics influencing work targets and strategy. The reactions to such data deluges and their possible consequences will be examined in two examples likely to be of interest to the audience ? city life and academic labour. Bio Roger Burrows is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London where is also currently Pro-Warden for Interdisciplinary Development. He is the author of over 130 articles, chapters, books and reports ranging across urban studies, social media, health and illness, the body, consumption, political economy and migration. His research current interests are in the fields of: the social life of methods; the public life of data; the urban consequences of the 'super-rich'; and algorithmic power in the academy. Speaker 2 Associate Professor Michael Darroch, Media Art Histories and Visual Culture, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor Title Patterns that Connect: Scholarly Networks across Transatlantic Media Studies Abstract This talk traces the largely unacknowledged contributions of Edward Snow Carpenter, Co-Director and founder of Explorations as its chief editor. From the 1940s, Carpenter was exposed to anthropological study that advocated humanistic, poetic, and artistic approaches to documenting cultures and cultural memory through multiple media (photography, film, sound, literary and visual arts) and that opposed positivist ideals of value-free scientific anthropological research. He was involved with CBC radio and television in the late 1940s and 1950s, contributing his studies of visual media and indigenous cultures to the very shape that media studies would take during this period. He committed himself to research and pedagogy crossing the boundaries of media studies and anthropology by drawing upon theoretical vocabularies from across humanities, fine arts, social and natural sciences. His later media experiments among peoples of Papua New Guinea (1969) and his monumental re-evaluation of art historian and anthropologist Carl Schuster's unfinished analysis of cultural patterns across ancient symbolism (12 volumes, 1986-88) led him to produce a series of radical pronouncements about visual anthropology?s role in creating comparative frameworks within broader media and cultural studies, and the interdisciplinary and experimental methods needed for studying contemporary culture and cultural memory (Carpenter 1975). Carpenter?s emphasis on ?patterns that connect? different forms of cultural expressivity across space, time, and media lends itself in particular to the creation of a digital archive. Bio Associate Professor Michael Darroch teaches in Media Art Histories and Visual Culture, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor. He holds a PhD form McGill University in Art History and Communication Studies. He is currently a Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London. His most recent publications include Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban, co-edited with Janine Marchessault (McGill-Queen?s University Press, 2014). He was recently awarded a successful SSHRCH Insight Grant for a project titled, Patterns the Connect: Re-Curating Edmund Carpenter?s Anthropological Media Studies, 2012-16. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iheap at iheap.fr Fri Nov 28 11:02:14 2014 From: iheap at iheap.fr (IHEAP) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:02:14 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: =?utf-8?q?Opening_of_the_Institut_des_hautes_?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=A9tudes_en_arts_plastiques_=28Iheap=29_in_New_York_City_in_?= =?utf-8?q?Fall_2015?= Message-ID: <8dd162ea0010871af4ecba8497bb7152@iheap.fr> Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) Press Release November 28, 2014 Opening of the Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) in New York City in Fall 2015 The Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) is a graduate institute for research and experimentation in art. It is the educational branch of the Biennale de Paris. The Institute was created in 1985 by the City of Paris, in reference to the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, and as an alternative to the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It lapsed in 1995. In 2012, compelled by its history, experiences and specificities, the Biennale de Paris opted to open a new Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) in accordance with its own modus operandi? which occasionally consists of reactivating lapsed or abandoned institutions. Drawing on the original model, the new Iheap conserved its name, intentions, idea of a simple structure, necessity for transversality and orality, and strong international dimension. The current form was conceived and developed by Alexandre Gurita and Jean-Baptiste Farkas, in conjunction with several key collaborators. Iheap?s course of study offers participants - known as sessionists - the opportunity to liberate themselves from the inherited history of 20th Century art; instead, it proposes inquiry into the crucial issues of art in the 21st Century, a history in the process of being written and in which sessionists might eventually take part. Iheap?s program cultivates ?invisual? and ?subtractive? practices that become inscribed in subtle ways into daily life. Iheap is interested in ?acting out?; in artistic practices that develop alternative economies to the art market; in strategy applied to the field of culture; in the revision of artistic terminology; and in the notions of expenditure and the necessary. Iheap is a liquid school that moves and composes itself within a multitude of environments. Each class takes place at a different location. The program, which is completed in two years (one session), consists of two full days per week of classes combining theory and practice. It confers a Post-Diploma. Iheap will open its doors in New York in September 2015 with Session XI, titled ?Economies - Can artistic practice produce viable economies outside of the art market??. Not purporting to come to New York with readymade answers, Iheap wishes rather to engender the conditions for substantive debate on a topic crucial to both the United States and the world. Iheap has chosen to locate itself in New York due to the city?s dynamism; character as a world city; and various existing structures that are extremely open to experimentation, innovation and risk, with which the Institute has worked. The Institute has found much support from individuals based in New York, some of whom will figure in its American pedagogical team. Emma McCormick-Goodhart will direct Iheap - New York. Tuition is 9000 US Dollars for two years of study. The period for application commences on November 18, 2014, and closes on March 1, 2015. Iheap - New York has several advantages guiding its development in the United States: - The first French school of art to open outside of France - The least expensive school of art in New York - The first Post-Diploma to be delivered in the United States - The possibility for students to actively engage in exchanges, or ?residencies abroad?, between New York and Paris. The hope is that Iheap - New York will, in its own way, reinforce contemporary French-American relations, as well as the historical links between these two singular cities, which have each played a key role in shaping the History of Art. - Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) Emma McCormick-Goodhart Director New York US +1 301 281 3082 FR +33 6 51 10 83 80 direction.new-york at iheap.fr http://iheap.fr -- Institut des hautes ?tudes en arts plastiques (Iheap) http://iheap.fr T?l. : 0033 (1) 4534 3004