<div dir="ltr"><div>apologies for cross posting!</div><div><br></div><div style>Best!</div><div style>Menotti</div><div><br></div><div>* * *</div><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>Postgraduate Workshop & Conference: Media Archaeology and Technological Debris</div>
<div>Thursday, June 20 – Friday, June 21, 2013</div><div>Goldsmiths, University of London</div><div><br></div><div>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). <br>
</div><div> </div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The event is organized by Goldsmiths’ Media and Communications Department, and counts with the sponsorship of Goldsmiths’ Graduate School.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Possible themes include: </div><div>- archaeological and anarchaeological research</div><div>- the repurposing of old devices (for fun & profit & art)</div><div>- programmed obsolescence and the temporality of materials and technologies</div>
<div>- precarious technical milieus</div><div>- artifact materiality and value</div><div>- media museography and historiography</div><div>- transnational contexts for zombie media</div><div>- industrial media and environmental hazards</div>
<div>- practices and economies of recycling technology</div><div>- electronic recycling and archiving of technological artifacts</div><div>- qualities, histories and applications of media systems and media ecologies</div>
<div>- global and local economic forces in cycles of innovation and decay</div><div> </div><div>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 <a href="mailto:mediaarchdebris@gmail.com">mediaarchdebris@gmail.com</a> by Sunday, April 21, 17:00 GMT.</div>
<div> </div><div>For more information, see: <a href="http://www.technologicaldebris.info">http://www.technologicaldebris.info</a></div></div>