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<div class="">the 4th International Geomedia Conference "Off the Grid" starts Wednesday 5th of May 2021 at 10am. We are looking forward to keynote talks by Caren Kaplan, Nanna Verhoeff, and Bernhard Siegert. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Geomedia
2021 is hosted by the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Graduate School Locating Media</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">and
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">CRC Media of Cooperation</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">.
It is organized in collaboration with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.kau.se/geomedia" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Geomedia Group at Karlstad University</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">.</span> </div>
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Please register on <a href="https://www.conftool.pro/geomedia-2021/" class="">https://www.conftool.pro/geomedia-2021/</a> to get access to the Zoom links. For more information about registration, conference program, and practical arrangements please visit: <a href="http://www.geomediastudies.com/" class="">www.geomediastudies.com</a> or
contact <a href="mailto:info@geomediastudies.com" class="">info@geomediastudies.com</a>
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<div class=""><b class="">4th International Geomedia Conference "Off the Grid“</b></div>
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<div class="">SCHEDULE: May, 5th – 8th 2021 (CEST) <a href="http://www.geomediastudies.com/" class="">www.geomediastudies.com</a> </div>
<div class="">REGISTRATION: <a href="https://www.conftool.pro/geomedia-2021/" class="">https://www.conftool.pro/geomedia-2021/</a> </div>
<div class="">LOCATION: online</div>
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<div class="">Geomedia provides a genuinely interdisciplinary platform for research carried out at the nexus of Geography, Media, and Film Studies. The aim of the conference series is to map out the current terrain of media geographical research, pinpointing
its main areas of debate and assessing the prospects of media geography as a more formalized academic field. The phrase “off the grid” is commonly understood to refer to the voluntary decoupling from established infrastructure networks such as electricity,
water or gas supply. The implication is one of material independence and a self-sufficient lifestyle. Going “off the grid” means making yourself invisible by rebuking the social and technological structures that normally organize our lives. It is entering,
or returning to, uncharted territory. The grid also speaks to the geographic coordinate system, an all-encompassing global structure which makes it possible to accurately locate any point on earth. This unified grid represents a dominant ordering principle
for everything “locatable”. Going off the grid has also been seen as a form of renunciation of the conveniences of the late capitalist (media) world in order to lead a supposedly slower, less stressful and eventually less superficial life – as inspired by
the transcendentalism of the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. But with so many people relying on the grid for purposes of work and entertainment in recent times, what does this mean for our relation to geomedia? What does ‘going off the
grid’ look like now?</div>
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Dr. des. Karina Kirsten<br class="">
Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin<br class="">
SFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation"<br class="">
Universität Siegen<br class="">
Herrengarten 3<br class="">
57072 Siegen</div>
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