Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics Workshops
The research group Media Aesthetics invites Screen Cultures to host joint workshops focusing on Screen Cultures research.
2022
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (2)
Time: Apr. 1, 2022 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (1)
Time: Feb. 4, 2022 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
2021
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (4)
Ellen Rees presents work in progress.
Time: Nov. 5, 2021 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (3)
Carrie Russpatrick presents work in progress: The Rise of the Vulva Monster: Vagina Dentata and its influence on Media Tropes and the Future of Screen Monsters.
Time: Sep. 3, 2021 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (2)
Maja Bak Herrie (Aarhus University) presents her book proposal «Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception”
Time: Apr. 9, 2021 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (1)
Matthew Rana presents work in progress titled From Memory to Reproduction: The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer.
Time and place: Feb. 5, 2021 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM, Zoom
Media Aesthetics invites Screen Cultures to a joint workshop focusing on Screen Cultures. Today, Matthew Rana will present his the introductory chapter to his dissertation, titled From Memory to Reproduction: The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer.
Matthew Rana is an artist and writer living in Malmö (SE). His writing has appeared in Art-Agenda, Camera Austria, Jacket2, Kunstkritikk, OEI, and Frieze, among others. He is currently a PhD researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
2020
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (4)
Kim Wilkins presents work in progress titled "From the Berlin project".
Time and place: Nov. 6, 2020 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM, Zoom
Screen Cultures at Media Aesthetics (3)
Four Screen Cultures MA students will present materials from their ongoing Master's thesis projects.
Time and place: Sep. 4, 2020 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM, Glassburet (Room 418)
On the program: High Speed * Brainstorming * Screen Cultures
Four Screen Cultures MA students will present materials from their ongoing Master’s thesis projects. What is interesting, striking, annoying, comical, tragic?
Please join us. Materials will include Youtube videos of the Alt-Right, romantic scenes from Iranian movies, the #Munch hashtag on Instagram and ‘Covidiot’-shaming posts on Twitter.
Screen Cultures workshops
Four open seminars discussing works-in-progress.
Time: Feb. 7, 2020 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Throughout 2020, Screen Cultures will host four 2-hour workshops discussing work-in-progress pertaining to our field. Our goal is to get to know, and provide feedback on, each other’s writing, in a forum where everyone can contribute.
Workshops are open to anyone wishing to attend; advance registration is required. Since the format necessitates active participation, all in attendance will need to read the texts up for discussion. Texts will be circulated a week before the session.
The workshops are hosted by the Media Aesthetics seminar.
Our first workshop will take place on February 7th.
Steffen Krüger will use the opportunity to dust off his pet project with the working title "Instagram, plasticity and mental health - the persistent question of narcissism in social media".
The following dates are: 3 April, 4 September, and 6 November 2020.
Organizer
Steffen Krüger and Liv Hausken
Screen Cultures Lecture Series
The Screen Cultures public lecture series aims to generate conversations about how screens – of all types – shape our understanding of, and interactions with, the world. Internationally recognized experts deliver the lectures. Like screens themselves, the Screen Cultures public lecture series is for everyone.
2020
Living in a mobile world: The culture and economy of apps
Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Dr. Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam) as our first guest speaker in a series of public lectures this spring.
Time and place: Feb. 20, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka: Auditorium 7
In 2019, the average user spent 3.7 hours on their mobile, signifying how deeply our mobile devices have become interwoven into our daily lives and practices. Smartphones have become a key – if not primary – interface to interact with the world around us. At the same time we carry around ‘smart’ data collection devices that are continuously aggregating data about our location, activities, and app usage. This lecture outlines how we can study social and cultural phenomena through the lens of app stores and how we can examine data flows between app user interfaces and third parties. Ultimately, the app store is seen as an interface highlighting cultural practices and the app as an interface connecting users, their practices, and data to various third-party platforms and databases.
Cancelled events
The other events in this lecture series was cancelled due to COVID-19 related restrictions.
Time´s Interfaces
Time and place: Mar. 26, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Georg Sverdrups hus: Auditorium 1
Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Prof. Shannon Mattern (The New School, New York) as our second guest speaker in a series of public lectures this spring.
Television Cities and Living-room London
Time and place: Apr. 23, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sophus Bugges hus: Auditorium 2
Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Prof. Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick) for the third installment of our public lectures series.
TV Snapshots
Time and place: May 25, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sophus Bugges hus: Auditorium 2
Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Prof. Lynn Spigel (Northwestern School of Communication) for the fourth installment of our public lectures series.
Aural Abstraction in the Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock
Time and place: June 3, 2020 7:00 PM, Cinemateket, Dronningens gate 16
Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof. Bruce Isaacs (University of Sydney) for the final installment of our public lecture series.
The lecture will be held at Cinemateket, followed by a screening of Frenzy (Hitchcock, 1972).
Seminars
2020
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
A conversation with Professor Shoshana Zuboff
Time and place: Oct. 22, 2020 7:00 PM – 8:20 PM, Litteraturhuset
The hidden and increasingly sophisticated use of our data has not solely contributed to personalized content and microtargeted advertising. Rather it has become a tool to predict and modify our behaviour as individuals and citizens. As “behavioural future markets” continue to expand, surveillance capitalism is shaping a new digital future with the potential to destabilise our economies, democracies and ourselves.
Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School and a former Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. She is the author of three books. Her most recent publication The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power has recently been published in Norwegian.
In association with Spartacus, The Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, and the Freedom of Expression Commission, Screen Cultures is delighted to welcome Professor Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard University) as she joins Mareile Kaufman (IKRS/UiO) in conversation about the pervasiveness of surveillance capitalism.
Tickets will be made available on Litteraturhuset's webpage on Sunday the 18th of October. The event will also be streamed on YouTube.
Organizer
Spartacus forlag, Institutt for kriminologi og rettssosiologi, Ytringsfrihetskommisjonen and Screen Cultures