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Media Archaeologies Evening - Thomas Elsaesser, Wolfgang Ernst & DARTS

12/01/2017 17:00

La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge - Espai 4, La Rambla, 99

Organized by UOC Chair in Design & Multimedia Creation

0034 933 263 3470

Speakers

Thomas ELSAESSER

Portrait Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam and since 2013 has been teaching at Columbia University. Among his most recent books are: The Persistence of Hollywood (New York: Routledge, 2012), Film Theory: An
Introduction through the Senses (New York: Routledge, 2nd edition 2015, with Malte Hagener) and Film History as Media Archaeology – Tracking Digital Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2016). He has just completed European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film as Thought Experiment (Bloomsbury, 2018)

 

Wolfgang ERNST

Portrait Wolfgang Ernst

Having been academically trained as a historian (PhD) and classicist (Latin Philology and Classical Archaeology) with an ongoing interest in cultural tempor(e)alities, Wolfgang Ernst grew into the emergent technology-oriented "German school" of media studies and has been Full Professor for Media Theories in the Institute for Musicology and Media Science at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2003 (early retirement autumn 2022). His academic focus has been on archival theory and museology, before attending to media materialities.

His current research covers media archaeology as method, theory of technical storage, technologies of cultural transmission, micro-temporal media aesthetics and their chronopoetic potentials, and sound analysis ("sonicity") from a media-epistemological point of view.

Books in English: Digital Memory and the Archive (2013); Chronopoetics. The temporal being and operativity of technological media (2016); Sonic Time Machines. Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices and Implicit Sonicity in Terms of Media Knowledge, Amsterdam (2016).

 
 
Respondants:
 
Pau Alsina is Senior Lecturer at the Arts and Humanities Department of Open University of Catalonia. Director of Artnodes Journal on Art, Science and Technology. PhD in Philosophy at Barcelona University, researcher in Media Theory and Media Art History. Director of the DARTS Interdisciplinary research group on Design, Arts, Technoscience and Society. 
 

Vanina Hofman is a fellow researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and a cultural producer. Since 2006, she has been working on the independent platform Taxonomedia. She has a PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society. She is particularly interested in divergent and unconventional arts histories, media archaeologies, digital preservation and oblivion. 

 
Ana Rodríguez is Lecturer at the Arts and Humanities Department of Open University of Catalonia. Executive manager of Artnodes Journal on Art, Science and Technology. PhD in Art History at Barcelona University, researcher in Fim and Visual Studies.
 
 
The DARTS Interdisciplinary Research Group works in the connections among Design, Arts, Technoscience and Society, from a practical, theoretical and historical perspective. DARTS has approached the Media Archaeology realm through several publications, research projects, conferences and specialized seminars.
 
DARTS is form by the following researchers and collaborators: Pau Alsina, Enric Mor, Irma Vilà i Òdena, Ana Rodríguez Granell, Laia Blasco Soplón, Pau Waelder, Vanina Hofman, Javier Melenchón, Pierre Bourdin, Quelic Berga, Lara  F. Portolés Argüelles, Susanna Tesconi, María Iñigo Clavo & Aída Sánchez de Serdio.
 
 
Narrative Minutes:

Pau Waelder is an art critic, curator, researcher and consulting lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He has a PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society. His research focuses on the interactions among contemporary art, new media and the art market.

 
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Dec '171

17:00 Starting date

Dec '171

20:00 Closing date

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