[Bilimsel Haber] CONF. CFP: "Ubiquitous Media" The University of Tokyo 13-16 July 2007

[Gonul Pultar]

Kimden: "Lynch, Siobhan" <siobhan.lynch at ntu.ac.uk>
Yan?t Adresi:"Lynch, Siobhan" <siobhan.lynch at ntu.ac.uk>


25 Years of Theory, Culture & Society

Culture in Process
Ubiquitous Media...Asian Transformations

III/Theory, Culture & Society 25th Anniversary Conference,
The University of Tokyo 13-16 July 2007

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Conference Outline
Today media are increasingly ubiquitous: more and more people live in a 
world of Internet pop-ups and streaming television, mobile phone texting 
and video clips, MP3 players and pod-casting. The media mobility means 
greater connectivity via smart wireless environments in the office, the 
car and airport. It also offers greater possibilities for recording, 
storage and archiving of media content. This provides not just the 
potential for greater choice and flexibility in re-working content (tv 
programmes, movies, music, images, textual data), but also great 
surveillance (CCTV cameras, computer spyware, credit data checking and 
biometrics). The media, then, can no longer be considered to be a 
monolithic structure producing uniform media effects. Terminology such 
as 'multi-media,' and 'new media,' fail to adequately capture the 
proliferation of media forms. Indeed, as media become ubiquitous they 
become increasingly embedded in material objects and environments, 
bodies and clothing, zones of transmission and reception. Media pervade 
out bodies, cultures and societies.

These ubiquitous media constitute our consumer and brand environment. 
Their interfaces and codes pervade our bodies and our biology. They 
pervade our urban spaces. They are ubiquitous in art, religion and our 
use of language. Yet from another angle art and language are, and have 
immemorially been, media. Media are about the physical, algorithm and 
generative code; but they are also immaterial and metaphysical. 
Communication is about channels and hardware/software; but communication 
is also about communion and community. Media deal in images: that is in 
the material; but their idiom is also symbols and the transcendental.

To theorize about today's world, we evidently need to theorize media. 
Yet to theorize media also means we need to focus on how technological 
media are used in everyday practices. Not least, we need to address the 
question of the relationship of media practices to politics. This opens 
up questions about the formation of informed publics, new social 
movements and media events, not just the alleged need to combat media 
terrorism, nationalism and crime. Suggesting further questions about the 
power and influence of transnational media, intellectual property rights 
and openness of access. Raising issues of generativity, creativity and 
critical intervention.

Asia - East Asia, South Asia, and increasingly crucial, the Middle East 
- are becoming sites for these processes. Global geopolitics has been 
restructured by the 'rise' of China and India and the turbulence of the 
Middle East. With concomitant transformations of the role of the West 
and Japan, this conference becomes also a question of 'ubiquitous Asia.' 
These transformations are producing new trans-Asian culture industries, 
social movements and activism. At stake are a set of transformations of 
Asian culture(s) itself - of language, and modes of cultural thought and 
being. We will seek to address these questions of media transformations 
and their relation to social and cultural processes in a number of 
plenary sessions, paper sessions, round tables and events.


Plenary Speakers
Rem Koolhaas (OMA Rotterdam)
Mark B. N. Hansen (University of Chicago)
Katherine Hayles (UCLA)
Ken Sakamura (Tokyo University)
Barbara Stafford (University of Chicago)
Friedrich Kittler (Humboldt University)
Akira Asada (Kyoto University)
Bernard Stiegler (Centre Georges-Pompidou)




Programme

Day 1 Friday 13 July 2007
16:00-17:15 Registration
17:15 - 19:00 Plenary 1 (with simultaneous translation)
Yasuda Hall
19:00 - Buffet Reception
Sanjo Kaikan

Day 2 Saturday 14 July 2007
9:30 - 11:15 Plenary 2 (with simultaneous translation)
 >>Yasuda Hall
11.15-11.30 refreshments
11:30 - 13:15 paper session 1 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
13:15-14:30 Lunch
 >>Round tables/ad hocs 1 - discussions over Lunch
14:30-16:15 Plenaries 3a/3b (2 panel parallel, 2x2 speakers, with 
simultaneous translation)
 >>Yasuda Hall
16.15-16.30 refreshments
16.30-18.15 paper session 2 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
19:00 - free time - student led participant groups leave for range Tokyo 
dinner/other venues

Day 3 Sunday 15 July 2007
9:30 - 11:15 paper session 3 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
11.15-11.30 refreshments
11:30 - 13:15 paper session 4 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
13:15-14:30 Lunch
 >>Round tables/ad hocs 2 - discussions over Lunch
14:30-16:15 paper session 5 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
16.15-16.30 refreshments
16.30-18.15 paper session 6 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
19:00 - free time - student led parties for range Tokyo dinner venues

Day 4 Monday 16 July 2007
9:30 - 11:15 paper session 7 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
11.15-11.30 refreshments
11:30 - 13:15 paper session 8 (6 panels, 6x4 speakers)
13:15-14:30 Lunch
 >>Round tables/ad hocs 3 - discussions over Lunch
14:30-16:15 paper session 9 (6 panels, 5x6 speakers)
16.15-16.30 refreshments
16.30-18.15 Plenary 4 (simultaneous translation)
19:00 close

Session and Round Table List

1. Mediated Image
media narrative
sound and image
transforming journalism
audience
culture industries
media regulation
political economy
media nationalism
globalization and cinema
2. Technological Media
new media/multi-media/metadata
generative code
genetic algorithm/database
protocol/interface/portal
digital evolution
nanotechnology
intellectual property rights
3. Sensory Media/Media Environments
biomedia and biotechnology
wearable media
inhabiting media
media arts
affect
the five senses of communication
consumer spaces
brandscapes
information cities
surveillance
mediated home
ability/disability
body image
digital public life
living space as installation
encyclomedia
inhabiting the archive
digital aesthetics
4. Geopolitical Transformations
rise of China and India
Islam and world politics
Asianization and the world economy
Interasia and South-South relations
Eurasia
East-West: relationality v. individualism?
media wars
militarised media
Islamic knowledge
5. Theoretical Interventions
human/ inhuman
symbol/image/icon
invention
life
communication
technology and ontology
primordial media: art, language, religion
money as media/value
media theory/new media theory
assemblage beyond system
6. Social and Cultural Processes
Mobilities
Immanent religion
Asian religion
Human/machine
Cosmopolitanism
Pure war
Megacities
Global spectacles
Cultural citizenship
Ubiquitous university
Publics
Ubiquitous queer mediations
Round Tables
Media Art
Bill Viola
Internet television
Internet Publics
Documentaries
Digital Media
Media Sport
Simulation
Computer Games
Manga
Anime
Asian Romantic soap operas/Telenovelas
Religious Media
Asia Media Politics
Beijing Consensus
Media democracy
Slow media
Work station
Kittler
Bourdieu
Habermas
McLuhan
Virilio
World order
Security state
World social forum
Transbiology
Complexity theory
Media aesthetics
Science
Global
Cultural policy
TV evangelism
Media sport
Images of ageing
Food television
New Encyclopaedia Project
Transgender and transmedia
Transnational pub sphere


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