[Nettime-nl] Jussi Parikka: “Dead Media/Live Nature: Media Ecologies of Animal Intensities”

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ASCA Matinees: Imagined Futures of the Cinematic Dispositif

From October till December 2009, the “Imagined Futures” research  
group is organizing three matinees around the redefinition(s)/ 
reconfiguration(s) of the cinematic dispositif. The matinees will be  
held on each last Friday of the month, 10.30 - 13.00 hrs. Location:  
Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, room 101. Breakfast will be served! Each  
session will include an international guest speaker and a respondent  
from within the ASCA community.
The first session takes place on Friday, October 30. The speaker is  
Jussi Parikka from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. His talk,  
entitled “Dead Media/Live Nature: Media Ecologies of Animal  
Intensities,” will focuses on the transpositions of media and nature  
through recent art projects such as Harwood, Wright and Yokokoji’s Eco  
Media (Cross Talk) and Garnet Hertz’s Dead Media lab. The Eco Media  
project developed new modes of thinking media (ecology) through a  
tracking of the intensities of nature. However, in this case the  
medium is understood in a very broad sense to cover the ecosystem as a  
communication network of atmospheric flows, tides, reproductive  
hormones, scent markers, migrations or geological distributions. The  
project does not focus solely on the ecological crisis that has been a  
topic of media representations for years, but engages also with a more  
immanent level of media ecology in a manner that resembles Matthew  
Fuller’s call for ”Art for Animals.” Media is approached from the  
viewpoint of animal perceptions, motilities and energies (such as  
wind) that escapes the frameworks of “human media.” In this context  
the rhetorical question of the Eco Media project concerning non-human  
media is intriguing: “Can ‘natural media’ with its different agencies  
and sensorium help to rethink human media, revealing opportunities for  
action or areas of mutual interest?” In addition the talk will expand  
the notion of “dead media” as articulated recently by Garnet Hertz,  
and discuss its relevance for establishing a connection between media  
ecology and media archaeology.
The following sessions are scheduled on November 27th and December  
18th. Details about these two sessions and the featured speakers will  
be announced shortly.
We need to have an idea of how many will participate. Please register  
by sending an e-mail to Eloe at asca-fgw@uva.nl.
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