[spectre] Call for Papers - Media Archaeology and Technological Debris - Postgraduate workshop and conferencee

[Gabriel Menotti]

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Best!
Menotti

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Postgraduate Workshop & Conference: Media Archaeology and Technological
Debris
Thursday, June 20 – Friday, June 21, 2013
Goldsmiths, University of London

This workshop aims to bring academics and PhD students together to discuss
emerging research projects on the field of media studies. It means to
combine the thriving approach of media archaeology with the growing
environmental concerns about technological debris, emphasizing the
complementary character of these topics in the construction of a material
understanding of media practices’ past, present and future. We expect to
gather a number of emerging investigations that can shed new light over the
socio-political, economic, cultural, technological, material and aesthetic
dimensions of the continuous phenomena of novelty and obsolescence of media
systems. In doing so, we also hope to create conditions to examine the
systems of relationship formulated around these topics, paying particular
attention to the regimes of value that define media objects either as
museum artifacts or as rubbish in different global/local contexts (such as
Europe and Latin America).

10-15 PhD students will be selected to participate. The workshop will last
for two days: the first one will be composed of closed reading groups in
which seasoned researchers will act as respondents and mediators for the
presentation of the participating students, while the second one will be a
small conference open to the public. As such, the workshop intends to
create a platform for exchanging ideas and research methods upon this
interdisciplinary field.

The event is organized by Goldsmiths’ Media and Communications Department,
and counts with the sponsorship of Goldsmiths’ Graduate School.

Confirmed panelists: Sean Cubitt (Media & Comms, Goldsmiths); Graham
Harwood (Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths); Jennifer Gabrys (Design,
Goldsmiths); Gabriel Menotti (Audiovisual, UFES); and people from Access
Space (Sheffield).

Possible themes include:
- archaeological and anarchaeological research
- the repurposing of old devices (for fun & profit & art)
- programmed obsolescence and the temporality of materials and technologies
- precarious technical milieus
- artifact materiality and value
- media museography and historiography
- transnational contexts for zombie media
- industrial media and environmental hazards
- practices and economies of recycling technology
- electronic recycling and archiving of technological artifacts
- qualities, histories and applications of media systems and media ecologies
- global and local economic forces in cycles of innovation and decay

To apply, please submit a text document containing a title, a brief
description of your project (no more than 250 words), and a brief biography
to mediaarchdebris at gmail.com by Sunday, April 21, 17:00 GMT.

For more information, see: http://www.technologicaldebris.info
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