Tag: Gary Hall
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Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. Symposium on alternative practices in humanities research
TEEME and The Centre for Disruptive Media present: Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. A symposium on alternative practices in humanities research Saturday, 27 September 2014 from 11:00 to 18:15 University of Kent Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 Grimond Building CT2 7NZ Canterbury United Kingdom http://www.kent.ac.uk/knowledge-machines Registration: http://www.knowledgemachines.eventbrite.co.uk/ Knowledge Machines is a free one-day symposium…
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Experiments in editing
On March 7th of this year we ran our first seminar as part of the Disrupting the Humanities Seminar Series at Coventry University, which has been organised by the Centre for Disruptive media. You can find more information about this series here. The videos for this seminar, entitled ‘Disrupting the scholarly establishment. How to create…
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Creative Hacktivism
Creative Hacktivism Seminar presented at BOM (Birmingham Open Media) in collaboration with the Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University Tuesday 24th June, 10.30am – 5.00pm FREE but places strictly limited and must be booked in advance through Eventbrite Hacker ethics and cultures have inspired some of the most innovative digital developments, from Apple’s design to…
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Hybrid Publishing: Scalar and watching reading write
Last week I attended a fascinating workshop organised by the Hybrid Publishing Lab on ‘Rewiring the Future of Publishing’. Tara McPherson and Robert Ochshorn both gave talks and my notes are underneath. Both Tara and Robert showed way more examples during their talk than I describe here to illustrate and support their argumentation. So any…
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Culture Machine Live podcast: Johanna Drucker
Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Speculative Computing and the Aesthetics of the Humanities: Johanna Drucker’ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/11/24/speculative-computing-and-the-aesthetics-of-the-humanities-johanna-drucker/ This interview with visual and cultural theorist and practitioner…
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Transmediale presentation: Paperbound – Cultural Imaginaries and Practices in the Epoch of Paper
Last January Gary Hall and I presented our paper ‘The Political Nature of the Boundless Book: On Artists’ Books and Radical Open Access’, at Transmediale, as part of the panel Paperbound– Cultural Imaginaries and Practices in the Epoch of Paper, chaired by Alessandro Ludovico and also featuring Lothar Müller and Markus Krajewski. The videos of…
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Materialities of Text
New Formations recently published a very exciting new issue, edited by Sas Mays and Nicholas Thoburn on ‘Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net’. Gary Hall and I contributed an article on the political nature of the book, in which we make a comparison between the political nature of artists’ books and open…
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Forget the Book
Yesterday I attended the excellent event Forget the Book: Writing in the Age of Digital Publishing, at Goldsmiths, University of London. The event was organised by Sarah Kember and Benjamin Pester as part of the CREATe consortium work package ‘Whose Book is it Anyway’. It featured Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths) in discussion with Doug Sery (MIT…
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Why experiment? A critical analysis of the values behind digital scholarly publishing
Last month I presented a paper entitled ‘Why Experiment? A Critical Analysis of the Values Behind Digital Scholarly Publishing’ at the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 4th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. This presentation was part of the panel: ‘Publishing Cultural Studies, Now and in the Future’, with excellent papers…
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Open Media Research Seminars – Series 3
Tuesday November 1st media scholar William Merrin will kick off the third series of Research Seminars at Coventry University on ‘Open Media’. The seminar series is accompanied by a blog that provides more information about the speakers, the theme and the seminars. You can find it here. Underneath the full program for this term. All…
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New Visions for the Book III: Liquid Books
Part 3 – Fluidity deconstructed As Hall has shown, the use of wikis to experiment with new ways of writing and collaborating offers a lot of potential for collaborative and distributive research and publishing practices. However, I feel they are only one possible step towards liquid publications and cannot as yet be perceived as real…