[csaa-forum] Usyd GCS Seminar, Friday 20 March, 2009: Digital Cultures

[Fiona Allon]

Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney.

"Digital Cultures" 

This seminar will feature presentations from Chris Chesher, Kathy Cleland and John Tonkin.

Friday, 20 March, 2pm. 
Kevin Lee Room, Level 6 Lobby 14, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney. 
(Take the lift near MacLaurin Hall stairway to Level 6 and the Kevin Lee Room is to your left).

The seminar will followed by drinks at Manning Bar. All very welcome!

Chris Chesher
This short paper will use the example of the productiveness of 
critical comparisons between network theories from a number of 
disciplines to illustrate what digital cultures might be. The 
contrasting (possibly even incompatible) approaches of social network 
analysis, Network Society and actor network theory offer different 
insights into social networking applications.

Chris Chesher is director of the Digital Cultures program at the 
University of Sydney. His research focuses consistently on digital 
mediations of cultural practices, but across a range of cases and 
themes. Recent work has revisited Innis's theorisation of the 
materiality of media in the light of digitality; examined the rhythms 
of mobile media uses before and during a U2 concert; and explored the 
processes of learning to share language with machines.

Kathy Cleland
This talk will explore human-technology interaction by looking at some 
of the different ways new media arts are using digital media technologies 
to create new forms of interactie engagement between artworks and audiences.

Kathy Cleland lectures in the Digital Cultures program 
at the University of Sydney and is a feelance curator specialising 
in new media art.

John Tonkin
This short paper will present a number of artwork, and discuss the
interdisciplinary nature of their production.

John Tonkin is an Associate Lecturer in the Digital Cultures Program
at the University of Sydney. He has been making digital media art
projects since 1985. In 1999-2000 he received a fellowship from the
Australia Council's New Media Arts Board. Tonkin's works have often
involved building frameworks / tools / toys within which the artwork
is formed through the accumulated interactions of its users. His
recent projects have used real-time 3d animation, visualisation and
data-mapping technologies. These include Strange Weather (2005), a
visualisation tool for making sense of life, and time and motion study
(2006). Many of his artworks have explored science as a cultural form.
These projects have often used humour as a means to engage with
complex ideas.


RSVP/Apologies to Fiona Allon (fiona.allon at usyd.edu.au)


Dr Fiona Allon
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry 
The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA

Office: J6.09, Main Quadrangle (A14)
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