Discussion of Siegert’s Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real
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Seats are limited and students will be given priority.
Further info
Reading: Introduction and Chapters 1, 3, 7, and 10 of Bernhard Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
Participants may bring questions about other chapters of the book.
German media theorist and historian Bernhard Siegert is this year’s International Visiting Research Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies and the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) in UBC. He is Professor of Theory and History of Cultural Techniques at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, where he is also co-director of the International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM). He has been Senior Fellow at the IFK in Vienna, Max Kade Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and LeBoff Distinguished Visiting Scholar at NYU. His books include Passage des Digitalen. Zeichenpraktiken der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften 1500–1900 (Brinkmann & Bose, 2003); Passagiere und Papiere. Schreibakte auf der Schwelle zwischen Spanien und Amerika (Fink, 2006), and Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (Fordham, 2015). He is also the co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Medien und Kulturforschung and of the yearbook Archiv für Mediengeschichte.
Venue: Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, Seminar Room (2nd floor), 6331 Crescent Road (UBC)
This event is:
Hosted by Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) and the Bachelor of Media Studies, University of British Columbia
Organized by T’ai Smith, Associate Professor (AHVA)
Sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies at UBC
