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Tag: Software

  • Software Theory – Federica Frabetti

    Software Theory – Federica Frabetti

    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: ‘Software Theory – Federica Frabetti‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/software-theory-federica-frabetti/ This interview with media theorist Federica Frabetti by Janneke Adema focuses on Frabetti’s recently…

  • #OAbooks in the HSS: Contexts, Conversations, Technologies and Communities of Practice

    #OAbooks in the HSS: Contexts, Conversations, Technologies and Communities of Practice

    Last week I attended the first major conference entirely dedicated to Open Access books in the HSS, in the British Library, organised by OAPEN and JISC. The two-day conference had a fantastic line-up of keynote speakers, established and new experimental projects in open access book publishing, and practical strands on funding, publishing for scholars and…

  • Open Media Research Seminar Series

    I have been organizing a Research Seminar Series, taking place at Coventry University in this term and the next, on ‘Open Media’. Last Tuesday the first lecture was given by Federica Frabetti from Oxford Brooks University entitled ‘DIGITAL AGAIN? The Humanities Between the Computational Turn and Originary Technicity’. You can find more information about the…

  • New Visions for the Book II: Remix

    Part 2 – Lev Manovich Lev Manovich is a professor of Visual Arts, at the University of California, San Diego, specialized in new media, software and digital culture. Manovich directs the The Software Studies Initiative where he practices cultural analytics. Similar to Navas, he has theorized and applied the concept of remix frequently in his…

  • Culture is Data

    Paradiso was enlightened last Sunday by the presence of a true Digital Media apostle: Lev Manovich, the renowned professor of Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, came to give a lecture on Cultural Analytics. His lecture was part of a one day conference, Archive 2020, organized by the Dutch expertise centre for…