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| <nettime-ann> Media and the Senses: conference and exhibition at Goldsmiths, 5-6 May 2011 |
. MEDIA AND THE SENSESTwo-day interdisciplinary and interdepartmental conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, to celebrate the launch of the New Academic Building (NAB)
Thursday 5 May 2011, 10.00 to 5.30 + 6pm exhibition and installation opening reception Friday 6 May 2011, 9.30 to 5.30 Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London, NAB THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALLThe conference brings together recent debates about the changing nature and definition of the senses, as well as artistic interventions that explore this change.
Specially invited speakers: - Michael Bull (editor, Senses and Society) - Sissel Tolaas (Scent Research Lab, Berlin) - Martyn Ware (Illustrious, ex-Heaven 17) - lain McGilchrist (psychiatrist, author of The Master and His Emissary) - Vesna Petresin Roberts and Lauren-Paul Robert (Rubedo)Also features presentations, installations and a week-long exhibition from Goldsmiths research students and staff, including: Les Back, Lisa Blackman, Jonathan Freeman, Christopher Hauke, Julian Henriques, Janis Jefferies, Nirmal Puvvar, Gareth Stanton, Bev Skeggs, Joanna Zylinska.
Organised by the Department of Media and Communications, with support from Computing, Sociology, Anthropology, Music, the Centre for Cultural Studies and the Graduate School.
Media and the Senses is the first event in the Goldsmiths Graduate Festival. Website and poster: http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/calendar/?id=4336 How to get to Goldsmiths: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL ------------ CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Media and the Senses, Thursday 5th and Friday 6th May 2011 All sessions take place in NAB LG01 and LG02 unless otherwise stated THURSDAY 5th May 10.00-10.15: Introduction and welcome10.15-11.00: Les Back, ‘Trust Your Senses? War, Memory and the Racist Nervous System’
11.30-1.00: Rubedo, Lisa Blackman, Paola Crespi 1.00-2.00: Lunch (not provided) 2.00-3.30: Parallel panel sessionsPanel 1: Carol McGillivray, ‘Running Backwards: what the retrotropic reveals about perception’ Eleonor Ratcliffe and Jonathan Freeman, ‘Fascinating views and sounds: their relationship to attention restoration’ Gareth Stanton, The Sensuous Anthropologist contemplates his own demise: reflecting again on Paul Stoller and the anthropology of the senses’ Panel 2: Zlatan Krajina, ‘Negotiated Encounters with Urban Screens: the “sense of place” in a technologically mediated city’
Claude St Arroman, title tbcRachel Jones, ‘Lumino-city: the role of light in the perception of urban temporality’ 4.00-6.00: Bev Skeggs and Helen Wood, ‘The Performance of the Sensual Spectacle: Affect and Emotional Labour on Reality TV’
Chris Hauke, ‘The Double: making sense of what you see’ Eleanor Dare, ‘Lost Memories and Embodied Traces’ Marina Peluffo, ‘Commercial Communication and the Senses’ 6.00-7.00: Exhibition and installation opening reception (NAB gallery space)Exhibiting artists: Brock Craft, Eleanor Dare, Julian Henriques et al., David Kendall, Kyoung Kim, Carol MacGillivray, Cláudia Martinho; Nina Wakeford, Michael Guggenheim & Britt Hatzius, Joanna Zylinska
FRIDAY 6th May 9.30-10.00: Arrival and coffee 10.00-11.00: Iain McGilchrist 11.30-1.00: Michael Bull, title tbc & Alex Rhys Taylor, ‘Sensory Paradoxes’ 1.00-2.00: Lunch (not provided) 2.00-3.40: Parallel panel sessions Panel 1: Janis Jefferies, title tbc Isobel Harbison, ‘Plasmaticness: the moving skin of the moving image’ Gabriel Menotti, ‘Blind Optics’ Panel 2: Nirmal Puwar, Noise of the Past 4.00-5.30: Sissel Tolas and Martyn Ware Julian Henriques, ‘The Circle of Sound’ 5.30-6.00: Closing plenary followed by drinks -- Gary Hall Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org Website http://www.garyhall.info Latest: ‘Has critical theory run out of time for data-driven scholarship?’ http://www.garyhall.info _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann