The Medium is Not the Message: On the Future of New Media Studies by Florian Kramer [to Graduates of The Media Department of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, September 2011]:

Dear graduates,

Let me make a wild guess: Perhaps it has become more difficult for you to say what media are - and what media studies are - than a few years ago when you began to study them. A paradox of “media” is that, in our time, they seem to be everywhere at first glance yet nowhere when it comes to critical study. Every person on the street would agree that our everyday life is permeated by electronic media, the Internet, mobile phones, electronic gadgets. Everyone is aware of their economic impact. Even the link between these communication technologies to cultural and social movements is not esoteric anymore, in the year after WikiLeaks and two days after the Pirate Party won nine percent at the state elections in Berlin. Continue reading

Into the Diagram: Two Public Lectures by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning :: December 13, 2011: 6:00 pm :: Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woollomooloo, Sydney.

Artspace and National Institute of Experimental Arts, CoFA present two lectures by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, leading philosophers and practitioners of movement, affect and relationality. Together their lectures Animality and Abstraction (Massumi) and The Dance of Attention (Manning) explore the virtual, abstract and powerful dimensions of diagrams. Continue reading

Giselle Beiguelman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil from The Politics of Digital Culture on Vimeo.

Related: Interaction and Agency in Real Time Systems by Jo-Anne Green (presented at Soft Borders, Sao Paulo, 2010).

Deleuze and Computers – a lecture by Alexander R. Galloway :: W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 2, 2011. Continue reading

Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process :: December 7, 2011; 6:00 pm :: EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY :: FREE + Open to the public.

Robert Lue, biologist and director of life sciences education at Harvard, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in both science research and education. Lue is the founder of BioVisions, a collaborative initiative led by Harvard scientists to improve the beauty and precision of science visualization. Continue reading

Cathy Davidson, Duke University from The Politics of Digital Culture on Vimeo.

Disfluency: Artist Talk with Nina Katchadourian & Krzysztof Wodiczko :: December 3, 2011; 12:00 – 2:00 pm :: Kellen Auditorium, 66 5th Avenue, NYC :: Free and open to the public. RSVP disfluencyexhibit [at] gmail.com

This event is part of DisFluency, an exhibition and series of events which examines inhibited communication as a universal human condition.

Curated by George Bixby, Jeanna Hamilton and Ryan Raffa: Continue reading

Ryan Hughes: We’ve been Re-Distributed :: December 1-16, 2011 :: Opening: November 30; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Artist Talk: December 6; 12:00 pm :: ARTicle Gallery, Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands b3 3bx, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

You can already directly stream video using your laptop or mobile phone, and it is only a matter of time before the constant broadcasting of one’s life becomes as common as email. And this is no new phenomenon or theory. People have been sending comical fragments of their home movies to T.V. clip show You’ve Been Framed since 1990. Continue reading

Art, Design, and Public Domain Lecture Series: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, “Antimonuments and Subsculptures” :: November 28, 2011; 6:30 - 7:30 pm :: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA :: Free and open to the public. Continue reading

[Image: The Aesthetic Face(s) of Anonymous, owni.eu) AMT Lecture Series: Gabriella Coleman – e pluribus Anonymous: in lulz we trust :: November 10, 2011; 5:00 pm :: Parsons New School for Design, Room #1200, 12th Floor, 6 E16th Street, New York City. Continue reading