Tuesday, February 5, Luke Stadel, PhD candidate in Northwestern’s Screen Cultures Program, will be presenting, “Two-Way TV: The Telephonic Model of Television Sound,” a draft of a chapter from his dissertation.
The New Media Workshop meets in Cobb 310, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.
The chapter is available here.
To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu
Ian Jones, PhD candidate in Cinema & Media Studies, will be presenting “Special Effectivities: On Learning How to See, and Learning How to Be,” a chapter from his dissertation on the notion of “world” in videogames.
Friday, January 25, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, in Cobb 310. Refreshments will be provided.
The chapter is available here.
To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Chris Carloy at ccarloy [at] uchicago [dot] edu.
This meeting will be co-sponsored by the Mass Culture Workshop.
**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Chris Carloy at ccarloy [at] uchicago [dot] edu.
Next Tuesday, December 4th, Lynn Spigel, Frances E Willard Chair of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University (Department of Radio/TV/Film) and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, will be presenting a talk titled “TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life.” Professor Spigel is the author of TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network TV; Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs; and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.
The New Media Workshop meets in Cobb 310, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.
This Tuesday, November 27, Zachary Campbell, PhD candidate in Northwestern’s Screen Cultures Program, will be presenting, “The Wonders of Tape: Video Recording, Network Television, and Liveness,” a chapter from his dissertation.
The New Media Workshop meets in Cobb 310, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.
The chapter is available here.
To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu
The New Media Workshop will be co-sponsoring a panel entitled “Making Waves in Sound and Space,” which is part of the States of Suspension Conference being organized by the English and Art History departments. The panel runs from 9:45 to 11:15 in Classics 110, on Thursday, November 15.
The following papers will be presented during the panel:
Patrick Morrissey, University of Chicago, PhD student in English
“Birds on a Wire: Ezra Pound’s Songs of Suspension”
Steven Swarbrick, Brown University, PhD candidate in English
“Toward an Archaeology of Noise: Sound and Unsound in Shakespeare and New Media”
Samuel Jacobson, MIT, Master’s student in the history, theory and criticism of architecture and art
“White Space City: Disconnecting Architecture and its Other Spaces”
On Tuesday, November 13, Patrick LeMieux will be presenting Mechanics, Metagames, and Mario and demoing his game–co-designed with Stephanie Boluk–99 Exercises in Style. Patrick’s presentation is co-sponsored by the Contemporary Art Workshop.
Patrick’s essay–“Hundred Thousand Billion Fingers: Seriality and Critical Game Practices”–is available here (the essay begins on p. 14).
The New Media Workshop meets in Rosenwald 405, from 4:30 to 6:00pm
Patrick LeMieux is an artist, game designer, and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. As a member of s-1: Speculative Sensation Lab and the GreaterThanGames Lab, his art and research are centered around the phenomenology of nonhuman play, the temporality of computational media, and the convergence of leisure and labor in an information economy. Two recent projects include Open House (http://noplace.org/open_house), a telematic artwork for virtually squatting the US housing collapse, and Speculation (http://speculat1on.net), an alternatate reality game based on finance capitalism and the culture of greed on Wall Street. Patrick has been published in Leonardo, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, the Electronic Book Review, and has an essay forthcoming in the Digital Humanities Quarterly. He is currently co-authoring a monograph titled Metagaming: Alternative Histories of Play with Stephanie Boluk. For more information visit http://patrick-lemieux.com.
The 2012-13 year kicks off on Tuesday, October 9th with Daniel Johnson, PhD candidate in the Cinema & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Civilizations departments. Daniel will be presenting a paper entitled, “Game-Becoming Laughter.”
The New Media Workshop now meets in Rosenwald 405, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.
The paper is available here.
To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu.
Abstract:
“Let’s Play” recordings of video-game playthroughs have become
a popular form of entertainment on video sharing sites like
Youtube and Nicovideo. Although possibly first appearing as a
variation of written or still-image walkthrough guides and
evidence of high scores or speed runs these videos have also
developed into a community-oriented space of communication
with particular modes of discourse via the user comment
sections. This paper will take up concepts of laughter, meta-
interaction, and anonymity in relation to the spoken, embodied
performance of the player/uploader in the video and the
written, anonymous discourse of the audience in the comments
section in English and Japanese language "let's play" videos.
What is the relationship between anonymous communication and
ironic laughter? How do audiences experience different forms
of “watching together” or a “double-vision” of screen-surfaces
and visual content? These questions will serve as a spring-
board into a more abstract interrogation into the relationship
between visual representation, written discourse, and
anonymity on the internet.
