[spectre] THE CYBERBAROQUE: an everyone is a girl (EIAG) symposium

[Gary Hall]

Wanted to let you know about this event in London on Monday (December 1) 
evening.

THE CYBERBAROQUE: an everyone is a girl (EIAG) symposium

Ticket link and further details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cyberbaroque-an-eiag-symposium-tickets-1967666666969?aff=oddtdtcreator

This symposium will explore the idea of the cyberbaroque allegory 
through presentations, a reading, a workshop, and a film screening.

WHAT IS THE CYBERBAROQUE?

In EIAG’s most self-indulgent event yet, curator Ester Freider presents 
a symposium on the neologism 𝒸𝓎𝒷𝑒𝓇𝒷𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓆𝓊𝑒 from her essay ‘I 
LOST TRACK OF WHAT WAS REAL’:

https://everyoneisagirl.substack.com/p/i-lost-track-of-what-is-real-personas

Using Belle Delphine, #deleuze and William Egginton as guiding 
influence(r)s, the essay constructs the 𝒸𝓎𝒷𝑒𝓇𝒷𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓆𝓊𝑒 as an 
allegory for control or governance through sophistry.

Some guiding questions for the symposium will be: How does the ethos of 
advertising affect the contemporary art-making process? How have baroque 
characteristics such as excess and illusion resurgere in contemporary 
media? What is the value of a trickster?

At the symposium, we’ll be tracing around this idea through 
presentations from writer Gabrielle Sicam, writer MPS Simpson, and 
Ester, a prose reading from Janice Chan, a ‘SCREENSHOT BABEL’ mini 
writing workshop from Ester and media theorist Gary Hall, a screening of 
Dana Dawud’s film MONAD, and exclusive EIAG merch.

Drinks provided by Anomalous.

Presentations start at 6:30 sharp.


-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

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