Event overview
One of a series of workshops, organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, that celebrates and considers Stuart Hall's work by close engagements with some of his key publications.
Each workshop consists of a series of responses to Stuart Hall's texts and a discussion of their significance in their historical context and their continued agency and effect in the debates of contemporary cultural studies and beyond. Attendance is open, with the request that attendees read the particular text beforehand.
Workshop 1: Encoding / decoding
Luciana Parisi chair, Mark Nash, Shela Sheikh, David Morley
Part of a longer text published as CCCS stencilled paper no.7, (Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse) Encoding / decoding proposes a way of understanding media as a form of production. Fusing a discussion of arguments important for semiotics, information theory, analyses of the materialities of communication with their attendant social practices, and making a strong critique of the 'behaviourist' notion of communication that has resonances with today's discussions of affect, this is a landmark text in media studies and media theory. Proposing that media be understood as a circuit of production with numerous idiosyncratic modes of feedback and differentiation that occur via technical, ideological, and political means and by those of knowledge practices and conventions, Encoding / decoding approaches a systems view of media that has significant potency for the analysis of contemporary computational and networked media.
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Biographies of Speakers
David Morley teaches in Goldsmiths Media/Communcationss dept . He worked with Stuart Hall to operationalise the encoding/decoding model for use in what was later published as The Nationwide Audience BFI, 1980. He is also author of Family Television (Comedia 1986); Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies (Routledge 1992); Home Territories; (Routledge 2000) and The Geography of the New: Media, Modernity and Technology (Routledge 2006)
Mark Nash is an independent curator and writer, until recently Head of Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London. For Normal Films he produced Isaac Julien’s The Attendant (1993) and collaborated on Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996). He collaborated with Okwui Enwezor on The Short Century exhibition and Documenta XI, both 2002 and Ute Meta Bauer on the 3rd Berlin Biennial 2004. Post Documenta11 he has written extensively on artists' work with the moving image–both in his exhibition Experiments with Truth at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2004-5) and One Sixth of the Earth, Ecologies of The Image at ZKM, Karlsruhe and MUSAC Leon (2012). This latest exhibition continued to explore the artistic legacy of the formerly socialist countries, first explored in Reimagining October at Calvert 22 (2009), (curated with Isaac Julien). Currently he is leading the Socialist Friendship research programme at Calvert 22, London and co-curating The Shadow Never Lies (forthcoming at ZKM, 2015).
Luciana Parisi is Reader in the Centre for Cultural Studies, where she is co-director of the Digital Culture Unit. She is author of Abstract Sex, philosophy, biotechnology and the mutations of desire (2004) and Contagious Architecture, computation, aesthetics and space (2013).
Shela Sheikh is Lecturer and Acting Convenor of the MA Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy in the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths. Prior to this she was a lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, as well as Research Associate & Publications Coordinator on the ERC-funded Forensic Architecture Project, based in the Centre for Research Architecture, Dept. of Visual Cultures. She holds a PhD in Cultural History (Goldsmiths). Her research resides at the interfaces between continental philosophy, literature and the visual arts, focusing on theories of testimony, the documentary, performativity, theatricality, media, terror, sovereignty, politics and ethics.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Nov 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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