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    MIRACLE SEMINAR: What about semio-pragmatics?

    Posted on: November 27th, 2011

    On Friday, December 9th, MIRACLE organises a seminar/lecture on the French scholar Roger Odin and his semio-pragmatic approach to film and media. Odin’s work, including his latest book Les Espaces de communication, will be presented by Frank Kessler.

    The seminar/lecture will address the general principles on which the Odin builds his semio-pragmatics, the central concepts he introduces, as well as the questions he has addressed over the past 25 years.

    When: Friday, December 9th, 2011, 13.00-17.00.
    Where: Utrecht, Muntstraat 2a, room 1.11.

    The number of participants is limited. To register, please mail to Sarah Dellmann (S.Dellmann@uu.nl)


    Verrijkt Verleden. Nieuwe mogelijkheden in Audiovisueel Onderzoek

    Posted on: November 24th, 2011

    De Vereniging Geschiedenis, Beeld en Geluid organiseert, in samenwerking met Miracle:

    Verrijkt Verleden
    Nieuwe mogelijkheden in Audiovisueel Onderzoek
    Utrecht, woensdag 7 december. Aanvang 20.00u

    Historisch onderzoek heeft veel baat bij nieuwe technische ontwikkelingen. Steeds meer archieven worden gedigitaliseerd. Research and Development-afdelingen van erfgoedinstellingen ontwikkelen nieuwe manieren om dit erfgoed te ontsluiten. Materiaal dat eerder onvindbaar was wordt steeds beter ontsloten. Hoe werkt dit? En wat betekenen deze ontwikkelingen voor audiovisueel onderzoek?

    Sprekers

    • Jaap Blom, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid,
    over technologieën voor het ontsluiten en doorzoekbaar maken van audiovisueel materiaal.

    • Arjan van Hessen, Human-Media-Interaction Groep, Universiteit Twente,
    over taal- en spraaktechnologie voor het ontsluiten van audiovisuele documenten

    • Martin Feijen, SURF foundation,
    over de ontwikkelingen in en mogelijkheden van verrijkte publicaties

    Zaal open: 19.30
    Gratis Entree
    Borrel na afloop.

    Locatie: Universiteitstheater Studio T | Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Utrecht.


    Kick-off: Utrecht Media and Performance Seminar ‘10/’11

    Posted on: October 24th, 2010

    We would, however, organize a preliminary meeting this Friday, on October 29, 15.00 at Muntstraat 2A (room 1.11) with the goal to sketch out the main lines of this year’s seminar.

    After having discussed the concepts of “dispositif”, “performance”, and “liveness” over the last years, the 2010-11 Utrecht Media and Performance Seminar will be dedicated to “representation”.  On the one hand, this term is rather ubiquitous in a broad range of discourses on media and it is a widely debated issue in theatre and performance studies. On the other hand, “representation” is an extraordinarily polysemic word, referring to numerous and diverse phenomena in the visual and scenic arts, in semiotics, cognitive psychology, political sciences and so forth.

    In this research seminar, we will try to map the various meanings of the term, also by pitching it against others that are somtimes treated as being synonymous, such as mimesis, figuration, simulation and ohers, as well as trying to identify the ways in which its different aspects are articulated as in the expression “re/presentation” or in the German distinction between “Darstellung” and “Vorstellung”.

    Masteravond Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen

    Posted on: February 11th, 2010

    Wat voor soort onderzoek verricht je tijdens je MA, RMA of stage? En wat daarna, wat voor carrière ga je mogelijk tegemoet? Deze en andere vragen worden beantwoord tijdens de FAQ Masteravond MCW op dinsdag 2 maart in Studio T aan de Kromme Nieuwegracht 20. Op de avond presenteren docenten en studenten van het Departement MCW vanuit uiteenlopende onderzoeksgebieden hun onderzoekspapers en stageprojecten. Tevens zullen twee alumni vertellen over hun carrière na de (Research) Master. De presentaties verlopen volgens het Pecha Kucha format: korte, creatieve powerpoints van 20 slides, ieder 20 seconden.

    - Datum: dinsdag 2 maart
    - Tijd: 19:00 tot 22:30 uur
    - Locatie: Studio T (Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Utrecht)
    - Plaatsen: 80
    - Kosten voor deelname: geen

    Om verzekerd te zijn van een plaats kan je je aanmelden via blik.tijdschrift[at]gmail.com.

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    CFP: Music and Media, Berlin, 26-27 June 2010

    Posted on: January 25th, 2010
    The IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) invites abstracts for papers in the fields of musicology and media studies. Papers should address the role of music in film, television, computer and video games, radio, live performances involving audiovisual media and other subjects related to the work of this study group. Please send your abstracts in RTF or MS Word format to Tobias Plebuch, tobias.plebuch@culture.hu-berlin.de by Feb 28, 2010. Your submission should include the following information: author(s), academic affiliation, e-mail address, title of your presentation, the abstract (300 words max.) and technical requirements (piano, overhead, power point, etc).

    The conference will take place at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, 26-27 June 2010. Helga de la Motte (Berlin) will be opening the meeting with a key note lecture on music and audiovisual cognition. The program committee includes Jin Hyun Kim, James Deaville, Michael Saffle, Tobias Plebuch and Emile Wennekes. Please consult the Institute’s website for updated information on the meeting at http://www.muwi.hu-berlin.de/tagung

    “Music and Media” was launched as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum on July 4–5, 2009, in Amsterdam. The IMS Directorium officially accepted MaM as a study group at the subsequent joint IAML/IMS conference. MaM welcomes a broad variety of subjects, methodologies and perspecitves. At the kick-off meeting participants from over ten countries presented 25 papers on subjects such as human-computer interface technologies, music in video games, music in film and television, radio plays, commercials, the nature of listenership et al. See also http://www.wwclassicsonline.com/mam.html

    Skip Intro: Upstreams & Downstreams (Piracy, Data Retention, Surveillance)

    Posted on: January 11th, 2010

    We would like to cordially invite you to the first meeting of Skip Intro.

    Skip Intro is a series of primarily ad hoc-organized meetings in which academics, artists, politicians and working professionals give brief lectures and presentations about current-day issues in which new media play a significant role.

    Our first meeting will take place on Wednesday January 20 from 19.30-21.30 in Studio T (Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, 3512 HH Utrecht).

    We’ll kick off the series with Upstreams & Downstreams (Piracy, Data Retention & Surveillance) and with the following speakers:

    Central topics of this evening are free & open software, the integration
    of mobile media in socio-cultural interaction, and 21-century citizenship. There will be lots of room for discussion, so anyone who is interested in participating in the debate on new media is welcome!

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    Symposium: Media van Morgen

    Posted on: January 7th, 2010

    Donderdag 21 januari 2010
    Studio T (Kromme Nieuwegracht 20), Utrecht

    Keywords: future media toekomst e-learning netwerken politiek wetenschap muziek alumni nmdc utrecht ted

    Op donderdag 21 januari 2010 vindt het symposium Media van Morgen plaats. Wij nodigen (aankomende) studenten Nieuwe Media en Digitale Cultuur, mediawetenschappers en alumni uit aanwezig te zijn bij wat belooft een avond te worden vol inspirerende vooruitzichten op de media van morgen.

    Naast een inleidende keynote, een koffiepauze, een afsluitende endnote en een borrel, biedt de avond plaats aan zes sprekers. Zij hebben de opdracht binnen 15 minuten hun visie op de toekomst van media te presenteren, waarbij ieder over een ander medium of thema spreekt.

    De zes sprekers zijn alumni van de master Nieuwe Media en Digitale Cultuur en hebben hun sporen in het werkende veld inmiddels verdiend. Het zijn ervaren sprekers die het symposium als generale repetitie zullen gebruiken voor een eventuele toekomstige TED-talk: het format dat als voorbeeld dient voor het symposium.

    Schrijf je in door een mail te sturen naar mvm[at]dutchearth.nl


    Kick-Off Centre for TV in Transition

    Posted on: November 3rd, 2009

    The Centre for TV in Transition brings together the work of the television and scholars at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University who study the cultural transition of television from its early beginnings on. Our research focuses on the historical, recent and current transitions of television’s screens, histories, discourses, and practices. We suppose that television is a medium that never just is, but constantly is in the state of transition. Currently, we do not witness ‘ The end of TV’ as many commentators claim, but the re-invention of television in the digital environment.

    Visit our website: http://tvintransition.wordpress.com/


    “OH MY GOD, is this LIVE?!”

    Posted on: October 1st, 2009

    UTRECHT MEDIA & PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR ‘09-’10

    The Utrecht Media & Performance Research Seminar invites participation of both junior and senior researchers from various research areas in a new series of discussions about the concept of liveness, presence and mediatization in debates about new and transforming media and performance technologies and practices.

    In seven sessions we will discuss key publications on notions of liveness, presence, mediatization, aura, dis/appearance, and the relationship between public and private spaces, including work by authors like Philip Auslander, Herbert Blau, Walter Benjamin, Jay David Bolter, Steve Dixon, Adrian Heartfield, and Amelia Jones.

    Literature will be selected and distributed by the organizers.

    Dates: October 30, December 4, January 29, February 26, March 26, May 7, June 4. Time: 2.30 - 17.00. Location: Janskerkhof 13, 0.06 (OGC), except for the first session in October: Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, 1.06 (Stijlkamer van Ravenstyn)

    If you would like to participate, send a message to N.Verhoeff[at]uu.nl no later than October 15th 2009.

    We look forward to your participation,

    Frank Kessler, Maaike Bleeker, Nanna Verhoeff


    Seminar series on CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL THEORY

    Posted on: September 6th, 2009

    Theme five: Signs & numbers; culture & nature
    (first session September 8, 2009)

    Organised by: Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Media and Culture Studies), Dr. Iris van der Tuin (Gender Studies)

    “Signs & numbers; culture & nature” deals with the ways in which the new materialism engages itself with mathematics, models, numbers, always in their entanglement with the human sciences, culture, signs. This theme will make clear the importance of science in new materialist theory. Yet it is not by taking the sciences as exemplary for good academic research that the humanities are critiqued. On the contrary, it is in re-reading the sciences and the humanities as they write a similar morphogenesis that builds up new materialist thinking. Neglected by the philosophy of science, this theme unveils a history of thought that is affirmative of both the sciences and the humanities, and shows their entanglement throughout the history of Western thinking.

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