Faculty Member Shannon Mattern Publishes Article: Sharing Is Tables:Furniture for Digital Labor
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TNS Faculty Lana Lin – Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects At UCB
For this presentation I will discuss my soon to be released book, which examines the vulnerability of the human body and asks how human beings contend with loss. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet
Faculty Member Shannon Mattern Publishes New Article on Cartographic Intelligences
Faculty Member Shannon Mattern Publishes New Article on Cartographic Intelligences Shannon Mattern’s “Mapping Intelligent Agents,” a paper she presented in June as a keynote lecture at Kings College and University College London and in September at MIT, was published in Places Journal on September
Thesis Collective meeting of the spring semester will be on Friday September 22nd
Dear School of Media Studies MA Thesis and Independent Research/Production Students, Welcome to Fall Semester! We hope your summers were all restful and enjoyable. As the foliage falls and the weather gets a bit colder, we want to welcome you to join our monthly Thesis
VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY
VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY Public Lecture Wed. September 20 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM 63 5th Ave, UL 105 The relationship between knowledge and visual forms has changed as tools and platforms used for data display, discovery, and modeling have become ubiquitous. These practices raise
Faculty Member Shannon Mattern’s Recent Article Translated Into Three Languages; Talks at MIT and PSU
Shannon Mattern’s “A City Is Not a Computer,” which she published in February in Places Journal, has been translated and republished in Portuguese (for the activist organization Instituto Intersaber), German (for the Vienna-based dérive: Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung), and French (for the international newspaper Courrier International). She’ll also be presenting a talk,
CFP: ngovis Journal – Digital Georgetown
The team at gnovis is excited to welcome submissions for the Fall 2017 Journal. gnovis Journal—Georgetown University’s student-operated, peer-reviewed, bi-annual, academic journal of Communication, Culture & Technology—is now accepting submissions for our Fall 2017 edition until September 22, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. We welcome submissions of original research from graduate
Public Lecture: VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY
VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY Public Lecture Wed. September 20 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM 63 5th Ave, UL 105 The relationship between knowledge and visual forms has changed as tools and platforms used for data display, discovery, and modeling have become ubiquitous. These practices raise
CFE: JOCIS MediaXXI Seeking Submissions
CALL FOR PAPERS JOCIS is a Scientific Journal, created by MediaXXI publishing house, aimed to the creative and cultural industries and studies, focused on the academic productions but also oriented to professionals and market who want to stay informed and expand their knowledge. The JOCIS
CFP: INTEGRATIVE PHD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM – COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SEMINARS
CALL FOR SEMINAR PROPOSALS INTEGRATIVE PHD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM – COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SEMINARS http://integrativephd.org/seminars Through the aegis of the Integrative PhD Program, Mellon Foundation funds are available for New School faculty to develop collaborative courses to be first offered in 2018 – 19. Supplemental salary
CFP: Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R-CADE) Symposium
CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center welcomes panel proposals for the 2018 R-CADE Symposium, April 20, 2018. The Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R-CADE) provides scholars and artists the opportunity to do hands-on work with digital ephemera. R-CADE The R-CADE defines ephemera broadly––nearly
Shannon Mattern writes about archival images, gives lecture at MIT
Shannon Mattern writes about archival images, gives lecture at MIT Faculty member Shannon Mattern wrote a short essay on archival images for PROPS, a zine focused on image-based methods published by Yale and MIT. She’ll also be giving a talk, “Mapping’s Intelligent Agents,” at the MIT Department
Good Reads: Feminist critiques on short films in Cleo Journal
With this issue of cléo, : an issue on short films! vol. 5, issue 2 There’s a challenge to writing tight, and all of the authors rose to the occasion, exploring their films and filmmakers with keen, concise nuance. Monica Uszerowicz reflects on her first sense
Shannon Mattern Published “Closet Archive”
Faculty member Shannon Mattern published “Closet Archive” (Places Journal), an essay on the history of the closet, where, for centuries, we’ve stored our dead media; made new media; incubated epiphanies, dreams, fears; and negotiated identities. The Paris Review featured the essay in its recommended reading.
Call for Panels: Borderland Spaces: Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources
For the upcoming 6th Asian Borderlands conference in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), we invite panels and papers that address the following questions: How are borderlands in Asia creating alternative spaces for heritages, self-definition and the extraction of resources? How can these cases serve to rethink social theories
Call For Submissions: anti-conference at Johns Hopkins Deadline June 20th
Anti-Conference Conference: Undermining the Reproduction of Privilege, CfP A transdisciplinary biannual graduate conference organized by the German section of German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department of Johns Hopkins University December 1st and 2nd 2017 – Baltimore, MD This conference addresses the shapes resistance takes within
Digital Social Memory: Ethics, Privacy and Representation in Digital Preservation
Faculty member Shannon Mattern is helping to moderate the “Digital Social Memory: Ethics, Privacy and Representation in Digital Preservation” conference, hosted by Rhizome this Saturday, February 4, at The New Museum. For more information, visit The New Museum’s website. With the in-house development of Webrecorder —an initiative
Public In/Formation by Shannon Mattern
Faculty member Shannon Mattern published a new article on spatial archives, map libraries, and the roles of archivists and librarians in protecting our information. Take a look. Public In/Formation
Peter Asaro Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer on Drones
Peter Asaro was quoted in this Philadelphia Inquirer piece on Drones a couple weeks ago: http://www.philly.com/philly/living/Rise_of_the_drones.html He was also featured in David Levine’s latest podcast for HearsayCulture on Stanford Radio KZSU: http://www.hearsayculture.com/show-236-prof-peter-asaro-on-killer-robots-posted/
Peter Asaro Quoted in New York Times
Faculty Member, Peter Asaro was quoted in the New York Times on November 11, 2014, on the ethical implications self-targeting missiles and autonomous weapons: “Our concern is with how the targets are determined, and more importantly who determines them,” said Peter Asaro, a co-founder and
In the Dust of This Planet: Eugene Thacker Confronts the Unthinkable
School of Media Studies Professor, Eugene Thacker was featured today in The New School News article “In the Dust of This Planet: Eugene Thacker Confronts the Unthinkable“.
Faculty Member, Shannon Mattern Presents Work “Intellectual Furnishings”
Faculty member, Shannon Mattern is a fellow in the new Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought. On Friday, November 7, 2014 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in the University Center, Rm 411, she will be presenting her work on “Intellectual Furnishings.” You can find
Faculty Member, Peter Asaro Mentioned in Slate Article
Faculty member, Peter Asaro was quoted this week, in Slate article, discussing the viral phenomenon of birds-attack-drones videos on YouTube. To view full article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/10/birds_attacking_drones_why_these_videos_make_us_cheer.html
Faculty Member, Peter Asaro Quoted in Fast Company Article
Faculty member, Peter Asaro was quoted in this Fast Company article on October 23, 3014, discussing corporate responsibility and ethics for companies that develop robotics. To view full article click here
Peter Asaro Discusses Lethal Robots on NPR
Peter Asaro, Assistant Professor, was featured on NPR this morning where he discussed the topic of lethal robots. To listen please click here.
City by the Numbers: Big Data and the Urban Future
Faculty member Shannon Mattern will be participating in the “City by the Numbers: Big Data and the Urban Future” symposium at Pratt Institute on Saturday, October 11, 2014. The symposium is co-sponsored by Places Journal, where Mattern is a columnist, and which very recently launched a redesigned website
Shannon Mattern Will Speak at the “Publishing Without a Publisher Panel” @ Columbia on September 24, 2014
On September 24, 2014, Shannon Mattern, will speak about alternative modes of scholarly publishing at the “Publishing Without a Publisher” panel at Columbia University. For more information, see the Columbia University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Program website.
Shannon Mattern Presents Research at International Symposium on September 3, 2014
Shannon Mattern participated as an invited presenter, in an international symposium on “Code and the City”, September 3rd through September 4th. The two-day workshop hosted a number of the foremost thinkers on the intersection of software, ubiquitous computing and the city, at the National University of
Sumita Chakravarty attends ‘Crossroads’ in Cultural Studies conference in Finland
For her report on the conference, please read: “Reinventing the University”: A Conversation with Larry Grossberg http://comm.unc.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/lawrence-grossberg/ The Association of Cultural Studies or ACS met for its hallmark ‘Crossroads’ conference in Tampere, Finland from July 1-4, 2014. For its tenth anniversary, ‘Crossroads’ returned to the