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The Mediacy of New Media - A Symposium

Friday, October 27, 2006
Haldeman 246
Free and open to the public

Though new media are closely tied to digital technologies, this association does not adequately define new media. In search of a better definition, many theorists of new media have asked, "What is new about new media?" This is an excellent and productive question, but it ignores another question that might lend greater coherence to the field of new media studies: "What is medial about new media?" That is the theme of this symposium.

  • Panel One: Image - 10.30am - noon
    • Tom Lamarre (McGill University)
      "Biopolitics and Modulation"
    • Margaret Morse (UC Santa Cruz)
      "What is a Medium? The Technofood Challenge to Media Art
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  • Panel Two: Text - 2.00pm - 3.30pm
    • Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University)
      "Fuzzy Mediacy, Ruptured Domains, Spammed Texts"
    • Matt Kirschenbaum (Univ. of Maryland)
      "Hybrid Textuality: The Challenge of the Born Digital in the Late Age of Print"
    • Jay David Bolter (Georgia Inst. of Technology)
      "The New and the Old in New Media"
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  • Keynote Address: 4.00pm
    • Allucquére Rosanne Stone (University of Texas at Austin)
      "Forget New Media, The Ship Is On Fire!"
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  • Organizer - Aden Evens
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