Drawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
Podcast: Fred Turner, “The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America”
Critics have decried The Family of Man as a model of the psychological and political repression of cold war America. Fred Turner’s talk challenges that view.
Interview with Fox Harrell: “How An Artist-Scientist Conjurer Thinks, Works and Lives”
Our thanks to Anne Khaminwa for conducting this great interview with Fox Harrell for the International Review of African American Art.
Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
Christoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Podcast: Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
Francisco Ricardo examines the tension between acceptance of new media and materials and the rejection of new forms and structures they made possible.
Code and Platform in Computational Media
This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Podcast: Stephen Duncombe, “Art of the Impossible: Utopia, Imagination, and Critical Media Practice”
In an economy of informational abundance, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
