Event overview
ANNA MUNSTER (UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES)
As new media began to coalesce as a significant field of cultural activity and thinking through the mid-1990s, much of the visual culture and theorising of information technologies emphasised a disembodied relation to these media. In this paper, I will argue, drawing on my new book Materializing New Media, for the importance of a materialist approach to new media and of the aesthetic contribution made by new media arts and culture to materializing our relationships to information culture. Rather than seek a counter to the privileging of consciousness and abstraction in cyberspace in "the body", I argue for digital embodiment as an unfolding relation to everyday engagements with new media.
Anna Munster is a senior lecturer in the School of Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. She has recently published Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (University Press of New England). She is a contributor to journals such as Culture Machine and CTheory and was the recipient of a large Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 May 2006 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
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