RSVP required
Seats are limited and stude
nts will be given priority.
Further info
Reading: Introduction and Chapters
1\, 3\, 7\, and 10 of Bernhard Siegert\, Cultural Techniques: Grids\, F
ilters\, Doors\, and Other Articulations of the Real\, trans. Geoffrey
Winthrop-Young (New York: Fordham University Press\, 2015).
Participa
nts may bring questions about other chapters of the book.
German medi a theorist and historian Bernhard Siegert is this year’s International Visi ting Research Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies and t he Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) in UBC. He is P rofessor of Theory and History of Cultural Techniques at Bauhaus University Weimar\, Germany\, where he is also co-director of the International Resea rch 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 n euzeitlichen Wissenschaften 1500–1900 (Brinkmann & Bose\, 2003)\; Passagiere und Papiere. Schreibakte auf der Schwelle zwischen Spanien und A merika (Fink\, 2006)\, and Cultural Techniques: Grids\, Filters\, Doors\, and Other Articulations of the Real (Fordham\, 2015). He is al so the co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Medien und Kulturforsch ung and of the yearbook Archiv für Mediengeschichte.
Venue: Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies\, Seminar Room (2nd f
loor)\, 6331 Crescent Road (UBC)
This event is:
Hosted
by Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) and the Bachelo
r of Media Studies\, University of British Columbia
Organized by T’ai
Smith\, Associate Professor (AHVA)
Sponsored by the Peter Wall Institu
te of Advanced Studies at UBC