Technologies
of Meaning
Conference
Friday, March 4
2:00-6:30
Saturday, March 5
1:00-5:30

Johns Hopkins University
Gilman Hall
Room 50
(Marjorie M. Fisher Hall)
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Sponsored by
The Center
for Advanced
Media Studies


Technologies of Meaning
Conference on Old & New Media

Curated by Bernadette Wegenstein and Jeroen Gerrits
"We are, it seems, all practitioners of media studies, whether we recognize it or not."
W.J.T. Mitchell
& Mark Hansen
The conference deals with the question of old and new media technologies, how we use them to make meaning of the world, and what they mean to us in turn.

In addition to two days of talks and round-tables, Mary Flanagan's and Marcel O’Gorman’s art work will be on display at MICA’s Brown Center (room 421) on March 4 and March 5.

The finale will consist of the screening of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, accompanied by a live orchestra and introduced by Tom Gunning.


Speakers:

Marcel O'Gorman, Director of the Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Friday, 2:10 - Applied Media Theory: Research/Creation in the Critical Media Lab

Tim Lenoir, Professor and Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society, Duke University.
Friday, 3:10 - ‘Emergence’ Transmedia Gaming

Joanna Zylinska, Reader in New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Friday, 4:30 - The Meaning of a Good Cut: Photography and Liveness

Thomas Elsaesser, Emeritus Professor of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam.
Friday, 5:30 - The Return of 3D

Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanites, Darthmouth
Saturday, 1:10 - [Borders]: A Video Documentation of Virtual Walks

Tom Gunning, Professor of  Art History and Cinema & Media Studies, Univerity of Chicago.
Saturday, 2:10 - Old and New [Media], or The General Line

Mark Hansen, Professor of Literature and Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University.
Saturday, 3:30 - Speculative Phenomenology, or 21st Century Media from a Radically Environmental Perspective