[open-humanities] Event 31 May

Fri May 23 07:45:53 UTC 2014

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the announcement: sounds interesting.

Are the talks going to be available online (and in open form/license)
afterwards?

All the best,

Iain

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Prescott <a.prescott at sheffield.ac.uk
> wrote:

> King’s College London, Guy’s Campus, Lecture Room 2. New Hunt’s House,
> London SE1 1UL
>
> Programme
>
> 10:00 Registration & coffee
>
> 10:30 Session 1: Walter Benjamin’s Work of Art in the Age of Technological
> Reproduction
>
> • Andrew Prescott (King’s College London): The Digital Aura
> • Neil Cox & Dana MacFarlane (Edinburgh): Workshopping Benjamin and
> Heidegger
> 12:30 Lunch
>
> 1:30  Session 2: The Age of Digital Reproduction
>
> • Bronac Ferran (Royal College of Art): title tbc
> • Elinor Carmi (Goldsmiths): Are you spam or not? The aura of authenticity
> in social network sites (SNS)
> • Sarah Biggs (Courtauld Institute/British Library): Medieval Manuscripts
> in the Digital Age
> • Sara Choudhrey (Kent): Islamic Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
>
> 3:30 Tea
>
> 4:00 Keynote:  Mark Leckey: UniAddDumThs
>
> Mark is a British artist and curator who works with collage, music, and
> film. His film Industrial Lights and Magic won the Turner Prize in 2008. He
> recently curated the show The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things,
> which explored the relationships between objects, digital avatars, and
> people, a configuration that he describes as ‘technoanimism’.
>
> 5:00 Reception
>
> Preparation
>
> Anyone interested in attending should register at:
> http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-witness-the-work-of-art-in-an-age-of-digital-reproduction-tickets-11701171519
>
>
> To make the most of the day, please read the following essays in advance
> (we’ll fix you up with the readings when you confirm your registration):
>
> • Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological
> Reproducibility’, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 3, 1935-1938,
> ed. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings (Harvard University Press, 2006),
> pp. 101-133.
> • Martin Heidegger, ‘The Age of the World Picture,’ in The Question
> Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (Harper
> Perennial, New York, 1977), pp. 115-154.
>
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