TVi lecture programme DCA Cinema 1 10.30 am - 12.00
Tuseday 25th Feb Sadie Plant (Ill Communication) She was Research Fellow and Director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick. She has published articles in publications as varied as the Financial Times, Wired, Blueprint, and Dazed and Confused. Her work has been discussed in much of the UK press and several overseas newspapers and journals. Most recently she was named as one of the "People to Watch" in the Winter 2000/2001 issue of Time. She is the author of 'Zeros + Ones : Digital Women + the New Technoculture'. She is author of 'The Most Radical Gesture' - a book which retraces the history of the radical fringe movements which sprung up in Europe from the horrid experience of WWI (and its antecedents) and continued through the century. The Most Radical Gesture starts with DADA, concerned with what we would call d�construction today. deconstruction of language, thought processes, images, art, literature, etc...Next, this book takes us on a magical history tour of surrealism, structuralism and finally the Situationist International which is the core of the book, both because of its roots in the preceding movements and its influences on postmodernism She is also author of 'Writing on Drugs' - a book on 'the history of drugs and drug use through the work of some of our most revered, and infamous, writers. Rather than exploring drug use as an avenue to spiritual transcendence, Plant focuses on the way that drugs themselves make precise, recognizable interventions in consciousness, in cultural life, in politics.' From the Stone Age to the Phone Age Groundbreaking New Global Study Explores Behavioral Effects of Mobile Phone Use SCHAUMBURG, Ill., -- October 15, 2001 - From Beijing to Birmingham, Chicago to Shanghai, mobile technology has made a radical difference in the way society works and plays, according to a major new behavioral study, On the Mobile, commissioned by industry leader, Motorola, Inc. From men showing off their cell phones in public as symbols of status or even virility, to teenagers competing with each other for the coolest new technology, there is no denying that cell phones have permanently changed the way people interact. The ground-breaking study was conducted by leading academic Dr. Sadie Plant,.... .......Using a combination of personal interviews, field studies and observation, Dr. Plant identified a variety of behaviors that demonstrate the dramatic impact that cell phones are making as accessories to conduct life, love and work.... ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
