Event overview
Permissions: The Way We Work Now - Visual Cultures Public Programme Spring 2016
Technology and Subjectivity, Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies) & Susan Schuppli (Goldsmiths CRA)
With the development of interactive, asynchronous and distributive computing, computational thinking can no longer be described in terms of closed systems of axioms and deductive rules. As computational theorists remind us, axioms ARE modified, rules amended, and truths have become experimental. Whilst computational thinking has become bound to the social, the distinction between formal rules and social practices is not simply to be overcome, but needs to be rendered perceptible so that its operative dynamics can be made available for cultural analysis and critique. How is formal time embedded in the sociality of time? What arrangements of subjectivity are being produced by our algorithmic attitudes and oversight? How do these operate in tension with the emergent properties and behaviour of computational systems themselves? These and other questions inform a wide-ranging discussion around cultural approaches to understanding the social and political conditions induced by computational paradigms.
As boundaries dissolve between teaching, researching and articulating concerns, as definitions of practice expand and mutate – we wish to pay attention to the permissions granted us by such changes. How do we currently define our subjects and methods as invention and necessity join forces within our work? As we self institute and self authorize in the face of new formats of research, study and practice - how do our permissions come about, are they immanent to fields of study or authorised by the urgent issues of the day?
As the department of Visual Cultures turns 10, we are looking at how new entry points for engagement have emerged, new Cartographies are being drawn and new practices have claimed legitimacy as the direct outcome of knowledge production.
This terms’ public programme brings together members of the Visual Cultures department, invited guests and former students in order to map out the changing orders of creative knowledges.
Series curated by: Irit Rogoff, Manuel Ramos and Susan Schuppli.
The event is free and no booking is required. All welcome. Full details on Goldsmiths event calendar, Facebook and VLE.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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