INVITATION TO THE FINAL CONFERENCE OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT "MEDIA AESTHETICS", OCT. 18-19, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
THINKING MEDIA AESTHETICS: THE EMERGENCE OF A RESEARCH FIELD
The final conference of the interdisciplinary research project Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo invite speakers and audience to participate in a questioning of the specific perspectives and operations characteristic of the emergent field of research named media aesthetics. Leading in different directions, the various works produced within the framework of our project offer no single mode or object of analysis. What is shared is, rather an attempt to place research on media objects and institutions beyond the framework of communication studies, while aesthetic objects, formats and operations are approached at their intersection with media and information machineries or with a view to their role within the politics of mediation. What is shared is, then, an experienced need to reorient aesthetic theory and research in accordance with the massive changes to human existence and social organization brought on by the omnipresence of information technologies that integrate previously separate media in global networks of production. This reorientation does not, however, simply concern contemporary culture: it opens onto new definitions of the nature of technology, art, human bodies and the sense-apparatus.
Our invited guest speakers – N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA), Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm) , Bernard Stiegler (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Samuel Weber (Northwestern University) – have all made important contributions towards such reorientation. The members of the research project; Liv Hausken (UiO), Arild Fetveit (Univeristy of Copenhagen), Eivind Røssaak (UiO), Susanne Sæther (UiO) and Ina Blom (UiO) will also present themes from their individual research projects under this general perspective
THE CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED!
A conference fee of NOK 350,- covers lunch and coffe for both days.
The conference will take place in the auditorium at Håndverkeren in downtown Oslo (address)
Conference website
WELCOME!
The final conference of the interdisciplinary research project Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo invite speakers and audience to participate in a questioning of the specific perspectives and operations characteristic of the emergent field of research named media aesthetics. Leading in different directions, the various works produced within the framework of our project offer no single mode or object of analysis. What is shared is, rather an attempt to place research on media objects and institutions beyond the framework of communication studies, while aesthetic objects, formats and operations are approached at their intersection with media and information machineries or with a view to their role within the politics of mediation. What is shared is, then, an experienced need to reorient aesthetic theory and research in accordance with the massive changes to human existence and social organization brought on by the omnipresence of information technologies that integrate previously separate media in global networks of production. This reorientation does not, however, simply concern contemporary culture: it opens onto new definitions of the nature of technology, art, human bodies and the sense-apparatus.
Our invited guest speakers – N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA), Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm) , Bernard Stiegler (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Samuel Weber (Northwestern University) – have all made important contributions towards such reorientation. The members of the research project; Liv Hausken (UiO), Arild Fetveit (Univeristy of Copenhagen), Eivind Røssaak (UiO), Susanne Sæther (UiO) and Ina Blom (UiO) will also present themes from their individual research projects under this general perspective
THE CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED!
A conference fee of NOK 350,- covers lunch and coffe for both days.
The conference will take place in the auditorium at Håndverkeren in downtown Oslo (address)
Conference website
WELCOME!