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INVITATION TO CONFERENCE OCTOBER 18-19, 2007 UNIVERSITY OF OSLO THINKING MEDIA AESTHETICS: THE EMERGENCE OF A RESEARCH FIELD The conference addresses a need to reorient aesthetic theory and research in accordance with the massive changes to human existence and social organization brought on by the omnipresence of information technologies that integrate previously separate media in global networks of production. This reorientation does not, however, simply concern contemporary culture: it opens onto new definitions of the nature of technology, art, human bodies and the sense-apparatus. Our invited guest speakers N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA), Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm) , Bernard Stiegler (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) and Samuel Weber (Northwestern University) have all made important contributions towards such reorientation. The members of the research project; Liv Hausken (UiO), Arild Fetveit (University of Copenhagen), Eivind Røssaak (UiO), Susanne Sæther (UiO) and Ina Blom (UiO) will also present themes from their individual research projects under this general perspective. (See more information about the speakers at the end of this document) PROGRAM N. Katherine Hayles: Thinking Database Aesthetics in the Context of Narrative Trond Lundemo: The Politics of Video Compression; MPEG, Pattern Recognition and the Moving Image Database. Bernard Stiegler: Anamnesis and Hypomnesis Today: Plato as the Thinker of the Proletariat Samuel Weber: On the Origins of Walter Benjamin's Media Theory: From Reflexivity to 'Sobriety'" Liv Hausken: Towards a Media Aesthetic Analysis Arild Fetveit: Thinking Media Aesthetics Through the Noise of the Medium Eivind Røssaak: Rereading the Ends of Cinema Susanne Sæther: The Archival Versus the Immersive Impulse: Mediality in recent video art Ina Blom: From Screen to Space: Media Aesthetics and the Discursive Context of Television Art THE CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED! A conference fee of NOK 350,- covers lunch and coffee for both days. You sign up for the conference by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with information about your invoice address. Einar Søberg will then send you an invoice. The conference will take place in the auditorium at Håndverkeren in downtown Oslo. The address is Rosenkrantz gate 7, 0159 OSLO. See also our website http://www.media.uio.no/prosjekter/medieestetikk/misc/e_oktk_start.html for more information. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Samuel Weber is Professor at Northwestern University. He is a leading American theorist in a cross-disciplinary field that spans literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Weber has previously been a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, and has also worked as a dramaturg at German opera houses and theatres (in Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf). He has translated Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida to English, and published on themes ranging from Balzac, Lacan and Freud to the relation between institutions and media. His publications include The Legend of Freud (1982), Mass Mediaurus: Form, Technics, Media (1996) , Institution and Interpretation (2001); and Targets of Opportunity. On the Militarization of Thinking (2005). N. Katherine Hayles is professor of English at the University of California. She is well known for her highly original research on the relation between literature, technology and science in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the question of electronic textuality and the interaction between humans and intelligent machines. Her publications include: Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (1990), How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetic, Literature and Informatics (1999), Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the Computer (2002) og My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005). Trond Lundemo is lecturer at the Film and Media department at Stockholms University. His research interests are centered on the themes of time technologies, aesthetics and intermediality, with particular weight on the mnemotechnics of digital archives, Jean Epsteins film theory and Japanese film from the 1920s and 30s. His publications include Bildets oppløsning; Filmens bevegelse i teoretisk og historisk perspektiv (1996), Jean Epstein: The Intelligence of a Machine (2001) as well as two anthologies on the relation between film and other art forms (Film/Konst, Kairos vol. 9:1 og 9:2, 2004). Bernard Stiegler is director of the department of cultural development at the Centre Georges Pompidou and has previously been director at the Collège Internationale de Philosophie, professor at lUniversité de Compiègne, and director at IRCAM in Paris. Stiegler is trained as a philosopher and his research is particularly focused on the relation between humans and technology. His publications include La technique et le temps 1: La faute d Epiméthée, (1994), La technique et le temps 2: La désorientation (1996), De la misère symbolique 1: Lépoque hyperindustrielle (2004), De la misère symbolique 2: La catastrophe du sensible (2004) og Echographies of television: filmed interviews (with Jacques Derrida) (2002). Ina Blom is an associate professor at the Department of Art History, University of Oslo. Her field of interest has been modernism/avant-garde studies and contemporary art, with a particular focus on intermedial or postmedial practices and event-oriented aesthetics. A former music critic, she has also worked extensively as an art critic and curator. Publications include The Touch through Time. Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-garde, in Leonardo Journal of Art and Technology, no.3, 2001, MIT Press, Joseph Beuys. An Essay. Oslo: Gyldendal, 2001, Visual/televisual, in Bice Curiger (ed.) The Expanded Eye, Hatje Cantz Verlag 2006. Forthcoming: On the Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture, Sternberg Press, New York, 2007. Eivind Røssaak is Associate Professor of literature at HiT, Bø (on leave). Currently: research fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. He has written several books and articles on theory, film and literature. Among his most recent books are Selviakttakelse. En tendens i kunst og litteratur Fagbokforlaget 2005, Kyssing og slåssing. Fire kapitler om film, Pax 2004 (medforfatter: Christian Refsum), and Sic. Fra litteraturens randsone, Spartacus forlag 2001. Recent articles are Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images in W. Strauven (ed): The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Amsterdam University Press 2006) and Freeze! in G. Iversen og S. Brinch (ed.): Estetiske teknologier 1700-2000. Vol. 3, Spartacus 2006. He has also translated among others Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway into Norwegian, in Teknovitenskapelige kulturer (K. Asdal et al, ed.), Spartacus forlag 2001. Susanne Ø. Sæther is a curator and a PhD-candidate at Department of Media and Communication at University of Oslo, where she is writing a dissertation on the aesthetics of sampling in video art (working title: An Aesthetics of Sampling. Materiality and mediality in recent video art). She has been a visiting Fulbright academic to the Cinema Department, TISCH School of the Arts, NYU and Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, 2005/2006. She has published articles nationally and internationally on aspects of mediality and materiality in film and media art. Arild Fetveit is associate professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published in the field of reception studies, reality TV, and digitalization of film and photography as well as written a dissertation on the discursive possibilities between documentary and fiction film. He has recently co-edited the volume Digital Aesthetics and Communication (2007) forthcoming from Intellect Books. Liv Hausken is associate professor at Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Recent publications: "Fotografisk Erfaring" in Krogholm, Claus and Mogensen, Jannie Uhre (eds) Fotografiske Dialekter, NSU Press (Aarhus University Press), 2006, pp.107-122, and "The Aesthetics of X-ray Imaging" in Melberg, Arne (ed) Aesthetics at Work, UniPub, 2007. HTML Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer ] Ina Blom Associate Professor Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas University of Oslo Box 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo Norway [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile +47 41688266 office +47 22841912 ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html .. REZONE http://re-lab.lv/rezone ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. WWW: https://lists.rixc.lv/mailman/listinfo/rezone
