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| <nettime-ann> FINAL PROGRAMME: Media and the Senses: conference and exhibition at Goldsmiths, 5-6 May 2011 |
. MEDIA AND THE SENSES A two-day conference in the New Academic Building, Goldsmiths, University of London Thursday 5 May 2011, 10am to 5.30pm + 6pm exhibition and installation opening reception Friday 6 May 2011, 9.30am to 5.30pm Venue: NAB (New Academic Building), Goldsmiths, University of London THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL The conference brings together recent debates about the changing nature and definition of the senses, as well as artistic interventions that explore this change. Specially invited speakers: - Michael Bull (editor, Senses and Society) - Sissel Tolaas (Scent Research Lab, Berlin) - Martyn Ware (Illustrious, Heaven 17) - Iain McGilchrist (psychiatrist, author of The Master and His Emissary) - Vesna Petresin Robert and Laurent-Paul Robert (Rubedo) Also features presentations, installations and a week-long exhibition from Goldsmiths research students and staff, including: Les Back, Lisa Blackman, Jonathan Freeman, Christopher Hauke, Julian Henriques, Janis Jefferies, Nirmal Puwar, Gareth Stanton, Bev Skeggs, Joanna Zylinska. Organised by the Department of Media and Communications, with support from Computing, Sociology, Anthropology, Music, the Centre for Cultural Studies and the Graduate School. Media and the Senses is the first event in the Goldsmiths Graduate Festival. How to get to Goldsmiths: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ =================================== CONFERENCE, EXHIBITION& INSTALLATION PROGRAMME THURSDAY 5 MAY 2011 10-10.15am - Introduction and welcome (Les Back, Julian Henriques, Joanna Zylinska, NAB-New Academic Building, LG02) 10.15-11.15am - Les Back, ‘Trust Your Senses? War, Memory and the Racist Nervous System’ 11.45am -1pm - Iain McGilchrist, ‘The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World’ 1-2pm - Lunch (not provided) 2-3.30pm - Parallel panel sessions Panel 1: Carol McGillivray, ‘Running Backwards: what the retrotropic reveals about perception’ Eleanor Ratcliffe and Jonathan Freeman, ‘Fascinating views and sounds: their relationship to attention restoration’ Gareth Stanton, ‘The Sensuous Anthropologist contemplates his own demise: reflecting again on Paul Stoller and the anthropology of the senses’ Panel 2: Zlatan Krajina, ‘Negotiated Encounters with Urban Screens: the “sense of place” in a technologically mediated city’ Claude St Arroman, ‘Vision’s Blind Spot: the Eye’s Detachment from Nature’ Rachel Jones, ‘Lumino-city: the role of light in the perception of urban temporality’ 4-6pm - Bev Skeggs and Helen Wood, ‘The Performance of the Sensual Spectacle: Affect and Emotional Labour on Reality TV’ Chris Hauke, ‘The Double: making sense of what you see’ Eleanor Dare, ‘Lost Memories and Embodied Traces’ Marina Peluffo, ‘Commercial Communication and the Senses’ 6-7pm - Launch of artworks in gallery space and reception (NAB) =================================== FRIDAY 6 MAY 2011 9.45 -11.15am - Rubedo (Vesna Petresin Robert and Laurent-Paul Robert), ‘Harmonography IV’ Lisa Blackman, ‘The Seventh Sense’ Paola Crespi, ‘The Sixth Sense: kinaesthesia’ 11.30am -1pm, Michael Bull, ‘Training the Senses in the City’ Alex Rhys Taylor, ‘The Smell of Fear’ 1-2pm - Lunch (not provided) 2-3.40pm - Parallel panel sessions Panel 1: Janis Jefferies: ‘“...some traces of her”. Katie Mitchell: Intimate technologies and sensory experience’ Isobel Harbison, ‘Plasmaticness: the moving skin of the moving image’ Gabriel Menotti, ‘Blind Optics’ Panel 2: Nirmal Puwar, Francis Silkstone, Kuldip Powar, Sanjay Sharma: ‘Noise of the Past’ (film screening and talk) (chairing: Liz Moor, NAB 3.32) 4-5.30pm - Sissel Tolaas and Martyn Ware, ‘Molecular Sound’ Julian Henriques, ‘The Circle of Sound Sculpture’ 5.30-6pm - Closing plenary =================================== EXHIBITION& INSTALLATION PROGRAMME New Academic Building, G and LG floors, From the Thursday 5 May-Friday 13 May 2011, Mon-Fri from noon to 7pm, Sat-Sun from noon to 5pm Private view Thursday 5 May, 6pm Cláudia Martinho, (((NAB))) Infiltration Kyoung Kim, Medium Carol MacGillivray, Bolt Julian Henriques, Circle of Sound Sculpture Joanna Zylinska, We Have Always Been Digital Nina Wakeford, Michael Guggenheim& Britt Hatzius, Gold is solid and melts into air Eleanor Dare, Lost Memories and Embodied Traces David Kendall, Gone but Not Forgotten Latest conference programme: http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/calendar/?id=4336 -- Gary Hall Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org Website http://www.garyhall.info _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann