Monday Night Seminars at the Centre for Culture and Technology are back. Here’s what’s happening during the winter semester.
Jacob Gaboury: Towards a Queer Media Archaeology – CANCELLED
January 15, 6-8 pm
Kicking off the Winter semester program, Jacob Gaboury (UC Berkeley) presents a talk on “queer uncomputability”, sharing archival material from his ongoing research on queer figures in the early history of computer science.Learn more and register for this event
Keith & Mendi Obadike
February 5, 6-8 pm
Keith and Mendi Obadike are artists, composers, and writers. Their works sit at the intersection of art, music, and language and draw upon histories of experimental media art and performance. This seminar will explore the significance of the Obadikes’ substantial body of conceptual artwork in the context of Black and decolonial activism and knowledge production. Cohosted by the Beating Time working group, whose work explores how rhythm is a useful concept in understanding contemporary political economy. Cosponsored by the Faculty of Information Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Unit (EDIU).
Matt Nish-Lapidus
February 12, 6-8 pm
Matt Nish-Lapidus‘ varied practice probes the myth that computers should be useful rather than beautiful through examining contemporary technoculture and its histories, politics, and impacts. His work results in diverse outputs including publications, recordings, installations, performances, software, and objects. Matt has performed and exhibited with ACUD Macht Neu, Electric Eclectics, MOCA (Toronto), InterAccess, ZKM, and more, including many DIY community spaces.
Miriam Posner
March 4, 6-8 pm
Miriam Posner (UCLA) is a digital humanist with interests in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. film, media, and American studies scholar by training, she frequently writes on the application of digital methods to the humanities. Her current work engages with the question of what “data” might mean for humanistic research, and how multinational corporations make use of data in their supply chains.
Monday Night Seminar – TBA
March 18, 6-8pm
Announcement coming soon!
Visit the Centre for Culture and Technology website to learn more and to register
