Category: Art

  • Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium

    Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium

    Friday, 1 October 2021 With the demise of traditional gatekeepers, we are witnessing the rapid rise of alternative modes of both scholarly publishing and distribution as well as the artistic exhibition of computer generated works of art in digital environments. The rise of open access and collaborative platforms are in fact blurring the distinctions between…

  • Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form

    Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form

    An exhibition and seminar at: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London, E1 7LS Exhibition, ‘Paper Struggles’, opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00 Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00 Seminar, ‘Public Library and the Property Form’: Tuesday 10 December, 10.30-13.30 Guest speakers: Balász Bodó & Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Seminar registration: http://tiny.cc/public_library ‘Paper Struggles’ This exhibition documents how struggles over…

  • Experimental Publishing II – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation

    Experimental Publishing II – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation

    A half-day symposium with talks by Mark Amerika (UC Boulder) and Nick Thurston (University of Leeds) 2:15-5:30pm May 28 Centre for Postdigital Cultures Teaching Room 3rd Floor Lanchester Library Coventry University Registration (free): https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/experimental-publishing-ii2/ In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over…

  • unruly gestures

    unruly gestures

    I am happy to announce the publication of a new article, a video-essay, which I co-authored with the filmmaker and theorist Kamila Kuc. Published in the open access journal Culture Unbound, the basis of this performative article lies in a video Kamila and I made, which deals with and breaks through common preconceptions and assumptions…

  • Experimental Publishing I – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation

    Experimental Publishing I – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation

    A half-day symposium with talks by Rebekka Kiesewetter and Eva Weinmayr (AND Publishing/Valand Academy) 1-5pm April 11 Centre for Postdigital Cultures Teaching Room 3rd Floor Lanchester Library Coventry University Registration (free):  https://experimentalpublishing.eventbrite.co.uk This is the first in a series of symposia hosted by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing.…

  • Experimental Publishing Symposia

    Experimental Publishing Symposia

    Experimental Publishing – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series, we will ask questions about the role and nature of experimentation in publishing, about ways in which experimental publishing has been formulated…

  • New article: Performative Publications

    New article: Performative Publications

      Published in the disrupted Journal of Media practice (more on this collaboratively edited special issue here) is my latest article on ‘Performative Publications’. This experimental and processual article is available in various different versions. Underneath the abstract and the introduction to ‘Performative Publications’, which explain in more detail the context of this research project…

  • The disrupted Journal of Media Practice published!

    The disrupted Journal of Media Practice published!

    We are pleased to announce that our special disrupted issue of the Journal of Media Practice, ‘The disrupted Journal of Media Practice’ has now been officially published. Conceptualised, edited and performed collectively by Coventry University’s Centre for Disruptive Media (CDM)–which is now the Centre for Postdigital Cultures–and the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), this special issue experiments with how media…

  • Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures

      7th February 3.00pm Disruptive Media Learning Lab (Coventry University) Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-centre-for-postdigital-cultures-tickets-41968258190 You are invited to the launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), a new Faculty Research Centre at Coventry University. The launch will include keynote talks by 3 internationally esteemed speakers:   Cornelia Sollfrank (Zurich University of the Arts) Monika Bakke (Adam…

  • Cut-Up

    Cut-Up

    Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough have again proven to be the main trendsetters where it concerns the field of remix studies with the publication of their second remix studies anthology, which has this time been framed around 24 essays all focused on a specific keyword of relevance to this burgeoning field. You can…

  • Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities

    Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities

    I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing: ‘Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities’, edited by Gary Hall and myself. This special issue consists of a selection of video-articles by contributors including Mark Amerika, Monika Bakke, Endre Dányi, Johanna Drucker, Lesley Gourlay, Sarah Kember, Silvio Lorusso, Erin Manning,…

  • Post-Digital Living Bookshelves

    Post-Digital Living Bookshelves

    The book has always been studied within a wide variety of fields, from (book) history, bibliography and literature, to library and information science, publishing, and media studies. However, the latter—media studies—has been quite slow in its uptake of the book as an object of study, where as a field it has predominantly focused on audio-visual…