Reframing Media: Objects, Sites, Histories

Media studies has opened up new avenues of research across fields, helping to reframe the objects, sites, and histories of scholarly inquiry, providing a way to challenge accepted historical layers of social and technical arrangements. This symposium draws together critical intersections with media, applying postcolonial and feminist theories to contextualize and frame the mediated landscape, both past and present. Drawing from a variety of entangled theories and methodologies, authors engage with a variety of approaches, providing new insights for scholars from an array of backgrounds. This symposium also engages media itself through a media archaeological approach, reframing and interrogating our media so as to shed new understanding to our hyper-mediated world.

Please join us for an engaging symposium.

Reframing Media and Communication

Zachary McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago

Media Archaeology from Labs to Landscapes

Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art

Hello Machine – Hello Human

Rachel Hanlon, Deakin University, Australia 

The Best Sleep of My Life 

Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology

Filmmakers of the World, Unite! Forgotten Internationalism, Czechoslovak Film and the Third World

Tereza Stejskalová, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Schedule

13:30 Arrive 

14:00 Zachary McDowell, Introduction – Reframing Media

14:20 Jussi Parikka, Media Archaeology from Labs to Landscapes

15:00 Short Break

15:15 Rachel Hanlon, Hello Machine – Hello Human

15:40 Laura Forlano, The Best Sleep of My Life

16:05 Tereza Stejskalová, Filmmakers of the World, Unite! Forgotten Internationalism, Czechoslovak Film and the Third World

16:30 Discussion

17:30 Adjourn 

Smetanovo nábřeží 2, room U1

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