The Chicago School of Media Theory http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory Theorizing Media since 2003 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:37:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Digital Storytelling http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2012/01/14/digital-storytelling/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2012/01/14/digital-storytelling/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:54:39 +0000 mediatheory http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/?p=1009 The Chicago School of Media Theory presents final project links and files from Patrick Jagoda’s Digital Storytelling class.

Click here to learn more about the projects.

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Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School

“Darklife: Philosophy and Supernatural Horror”

Thursday, October 7, 4:30 p.m.
Rosenwald 405


Eugene Thacker is the author of After Life (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, Nov. 2010), The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (with Alex Galloway, University of Minnesota Press, 2007), An Ideal for Living: An Anti-Novel (Quodlibet Books, 2006), The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (MIT Press, 2005), Creative Biotechnology: A User’s Manual (with Natalie Jeremijenko, Locus+ Press, 2004), and Biomedia (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). He is also the editor of Hard_Code: Narrating the Network Society (ALT-X Press, 2001).


Please contact (773) 702-8536 or nap@uchicago.edu if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

]]> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/09/30/eugene-thacker-on-darklife-philosophy-and-supernatureal-horror-october-7/feed/ 75 UChicago New Media Workshop Fall Schedule Announced http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/09/30/uchicago-new-media-workshop-fall-schedule-announced/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/09/30/uchicago-new-media-workshop-fall-schedule-announced/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:10:53 +0000 mediatheory http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/?p=863 The Fall 2010 schedule for the New Media Workshop is announced below.  Please join us on Fridays, alternating with the Mass Cultures Workshop.

Meetings are on on Fridays from 10:30 to 12:30 in Cobb 310 unless otherwise noted.

October 8th: Eugene Thacker, Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School, discusses his essay “Mediation and Antimediation” (this workshop is preceded by a lecture by Professor Thacker on October 7th, 4:30 pm in Rosenwald Hall 405, entitled “Darklife: Philosophy and Supernatural Horror,” presented by the Department of English)

October 22nd:  Patrick Jagoda, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, presents on recent gaming-related projects

November 12th: Clint Froehlich (Cinema and Media Studies) presents on Blu-Ray as porous media

November 13th (SATURDAY):  Screening, co-sponsored by the Film Studies Center:  Recent Video Work by Eddo Stern.  Screening will take place in Cobb 306 at 7:00 PM.

November 19th: Eddo Stern, Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA, discusses his recent work

For more information, please visit our blog:
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/newmedia/schedule/

More information about individual presentations will be posted as the quarter progresses.

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2010-11 graduate student coordinator is Ian Jones; faculty sponsors are Jason Salavon and W. J. T. Mitchell.

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Ian Jones at ijones [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

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]]> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/09/10/rumors-of-media-theorys-death-have-been-greatly-exagerated/feed/ 25 What Is Contemporary Art? Terry Smith Lecture, Oct 29 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/08/10/what-is-contemporary-art-terry-smith-lecture-oct-29/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/08/10/what-is-contemporary-art-terry-smith-lecture-oct-29/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:05:20 +0000 mediatheory http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/?p=355 Terry Smith, Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh, will be lecturing on contemporary art in CWAC Lecture Hall, October 29, 2010, at 4 PM.   Professor Smith is one of the world’s leading experts on contemporary art in a global context.

]]> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/08/10/what-is-contemporary-art-terry-smith-lecture-oct-29/feed/ 24 Jim Hodge at the New Media Workshop http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/05/25/jim-hodge-at-the-new-media-workshop/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/2010/05/25/jim-hodge-at-the-new-media-workshop/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 16:20:35 +0000 mediatheory http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/?p=27 Please join the New Media Workshop for our last meeting this academic year.

This Friday 5/28 10:30-12:30 in Cobb 310

Jim Hodge (English), “Precarious Information: Animating the
End of the Book,” a draft of a chapter from his dissertation
“Animate Archaeology: New Media and the Aesthetics of History”

Ivan Ross (Cinema & Media Studies) responds.

The chapter will be available shortly on the blog:

http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/newmedia/schedule/

Here are links to the 3 projects Jim will be discussing:

Giselle Beiguelman, “The Book After the Book”
http://www.desvirtual.com/thebook/index.htm

William Gibson & Dennis Ashbaugh, “Agrippa (a book of the
dead)” [see, in particular, the emulation of the poem]
http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/

John Cayley, “overboard” [NB: requires installation]
http://homepage.mac.com/shadoof/net/in/

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