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Public lecture by Professor Brian Massumi, Département de Communication, Université de Montréal, Canada.
The lecture will examine the status of the virtual in perception. As understood philosophically by thinkers such as C.S. Peirce, Henri Bergson, William James, Gilles Deleuze and A.N. Whitehead (in his notion of “pure potentiality”), the virtual is strictly complementary to the actual. It is a mistake to think of them as opposites or as in contradiction. The virtual is abstract by definition, which means that it cannot be reduced to the empirically present. But neither can it be separated from it. According to the philosophical concept of the virtual, there is a reciprocity between the actual and the virtual that enters actively into the constitution of every act of experience: they are co-gredient to perception. Although the virtual as such cannot appear in perception, its co-gredience to the constitution of experience cannot but make itself felt in some way with each perception’s arising. The question then becomes, in what way does the abstractness of the virtual come with coming perception? How does it make its active implication in experience felt? Applied to vision, this question translates into: what is a virtual image?
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Conference and PhD workshop, 12-14 January, 2011, Aarhus University, Denmark
The conference and Ph.D. workshop brings together researchers from Aarhus University, University of Plymouth, and guests to address the broad theme of Public Interfaces as part of ongoing research in Digital Urban Living. It is organized by Center for Digital Urban Living and DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre), Aarhus University in collaboration with Dept. of Aesthetic Studies.
Emerging from DUL and DARC’s ongoing research around interface criticism, the aim is to broaden issues to encompass the development of urban interfaces, and the changing concept of the ‘public’.
Conference & workshop website
Tags: aesthetics | civic communication | conference | digital aesthetics | interface aesthetics | media facades | new urban areas |
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Share Festival 2010, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. November 3, 2010 - 14.00-15.30. Panel hosted by DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University) and DUL (Digital Urban Living).
Presenters: Christian Ulrik Andersen (DK), Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DK), Geoff Cox (UK/DK), and Les Liens Invisibles (IT).
The panel investigates some of the interconnections between art, activism and business. Presenters examine how artists, rather than refusing the market, are generating cultural Trojan horses — social hacks, or “smart errors” — producing critical interventions from within. As the distinction between production and consumption appears to have collapsed, every interaction in the info-sphere seems to be a business opportunity. Therefore, the creative intersections between business and art become a crucial territory for re-invention and the rewriting of symbolic and cultural codes, generating political actions, attempts of social innovations, but also unexpected consequences and a deep level of irony. Errors or mistakes demonstrate the permeability of systems — that these can be reworked — and more so, that radical innovation requires modification of the prevailing business logic.
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Workshop at CHI 2011, 8 May 2011
..:: Camera ready extended abstract (pdf)
Please note: deadline for submission of position papers has been extended to 18 Feb. See below.
We often use personal digital technologies while public, and more and more public interfaces find their way into our everyday lives. Simultaneously, metaphors from performance and theatre studies find their way into research on these interfaces, addressing how interaction with technology can be understood in a performative sense. However, the term ‘performativity' is rarely addressed in ways that accentuate its nuances and its analytic power, and this is the focus of the workshop.
The workshop is relevant to media theorists, practitioners and/or designers interested in:
- Gestural interaction and on-body sensing (e.g. wearable computing/sensing, Wii, Kinect and proprietary systems)
- Interactive media art (e.g. installations, performances or mobile experiences)
- Public screens or installations (e.g. in public squares, airports, theme parks and science museums)
- Interfaces for use in public (e.g. kiosks, tangible and mobile interfaces)
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 Sensorial Cartography is a seminar by DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Center) and Digital Urban Living, which shows examples from Roberto Paci Dalò’s works based on urban explorations and expanded cartography.The seminar is held at the Department for Information and Media Studies, october 6th.
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