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Talk: Kate Chandler – Drone Erans

Our current fellow Kate Chandler will give a talk at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry on 12 June, 2018, 5pm. Abstract: This talk is about errant drone aircraft. A drone sunk in 500 fathoms of water off the coast of San Diego in 1937. A fragment of a D-21 drone launched over China in 1969 returned to an […]

Postinternet vs postdigital

Workshop mit der New Yorker Künstlerin Marisa Olsen 2. Mai 2018, 16.00 bis 19.00 Uhr Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften (ZeM), Hermann-Elflein-Straße 18, 14467 Potsdam Kaum sind wir im „Neuland“ angekommen – Internet: check, total digital –, schon befinden wir uns im Danach. #postinternet #postdigital? Hat uns die Transformation aus der Kurve geworfen? Digitale Informationstechnologien haben […]

CFP: Digital Cultures – Knowledge / Culture / Technology, Lüneburg

Leuphana University Lüneburg, September 19–22 , 2018 co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University Lüneburg, and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University https://digitalculturesconference.org Initiators: Armin Beverungen (CDC / University of Siegen), Ned Rossiter (ICS) CFP: The advent and ubiquity of digital media technologies precipitate a profound transformation of the […]

Talk: Katherine Hayles – Are Sensing Technologies Cognitive?

25.05.2018, “Are Sensing Technologies Cognitive?  Making the Case” 1. ZeM  Spring Lecture mit N. Katherine Hayles, 18 – 21 Uhr As programmable and networked computers move into the world with increasingly complex sensing systems, traditional questions about machine intelligence cease to be very useful to understand and conceptualize these developments.  This talk will focus on […]

Tagung Spürtechniken, 24.05.2018

24. bis 25. Mai 2018 (Donnerstag: 9:30-20 Uhr, Freitag 9:30-20:00) Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften (ZeM) Hermann-Elflein-Str.18, 14467 Potsdam Der Begriff der Natur wurde und wird disziplinübergreifend neu diskutiert, kritisiert und stellenweise abgeschafft. „Nach der Natur“ hieß 2010 ein Essay von Ursula Heise, der die Frage des Artensterbens in einem wissenschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Zusammenhang diskutierte; […]

Conference: Remote Control

Together with my colleagues Nina Franz and Kathrin Friedrich, I organize the conference: Remote Control – Scales of Mediated Intervention International conference, June 29th and 30th 2017 Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung Sophienstrasse 22a, 10178 Berlin Central Laboratory (2nd courtyard, 2nd floor) www.remote-control-conference.org (Please RSVP online, participation is free of charge) The two-day conference assembles […]

Images in Conflict

Images in Conflict – Bilder im Konflikt. 17. und 18. Mai 2017 , Hannover. Abstract: fotografische und filmische Bilder von Krisen- und Konfliktsituationen verändern sich in Ästhetik und Gebrauchsweisen – und geraten damit selbst ins Visier. Zum einen haben sich im Zuge der digitalen Entwicklungen die Bildproduzent*innen und Distributionskanäle von Bildern vervielfältigt. Das erweitert Perspektiven […]

CONF: The Power of Activist Videos

12 May 13 May 2017,  ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin — Web videos play a crucial role in the political protests that mobilize today‘s civil society. Spread and shared across social media, they draw attention to a variety of issues, serve as evidence and, ultimately, as a call to action. In the […]

AoIR 2016: Internet Rules, Berlin Oct 5–8

AoIR 2016 is the 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the place of networked technologies in social processes. This year’s conference ist jointly hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research. AoIR 2016 will […]

The Body of War – Drones and Lone Wolves

An International SymposiumLancaster University, 24–25 November 2016 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: David Cook, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Rice University and author of Martyrdom in Islam (Cambridge). Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia and author of Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence (Routledge). Adam Harvey, American artist working on surveillance, […]