Dear all,

On behalf of the Mass Culture and Digital Media Workshops, please find below our joint workshop schedule for this autumn quarter. All workshops will meet on Fridays, 11 AM–12:30 PM, in Cobb 310, unless otherwise noted. The first workshop is this Friday—don’t miss it!

We hope to see you there!

Joel and Hugo, for Mass Culture (MC)

Lilian and Ziyi, for Digital Media (DM)

 

 

OCTOBER 6 (MC)

Jas Brooks (PhD Student, Computer Science, University of Chicago)

“The Very Breath of Drama: Scented Cinema Before the Battle of the Smellies”

 

OCTOBER 13 (DM)

James Hodge (Associate Professor, English, Northwestern University)

“Six Theses on an Aesthetics of Always-On Computing”

 

OCTOBER 20 (DM, in collaboration with the Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop)
Thomas Looser (Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, New York University)

“Landscapes After Modernity: The Place of the Universal Human in the (Digital) Art of Xu Bing & Japan”

 

OCTOBER 27 (MC)

Sophie Lynch (PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies/Art History, University of Chicago)

“Through Glass, Darkly: The Photographic Resolution of Celestial Nebulae”

 

NOVEMBER 3 (MC)

TBA

NOVEMBER 10 (DM)

Erin Nunoda (Teaching Faculty, English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)

“The Endless Stream: Pool Rooms and YouTube without Attractions”

 

NOVEMBER 17 (DM)

Jiyoon Kim (PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)

“Care as Play”

 

DECEMBER 1 (MC)

Zach Anderson (PhD Student, Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Title TBA

 

DECEMBER 8 (DM)

Frank Ming (PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)

“Luminous Media”