Prof. Dr. Paula Bialski (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) Fri 16 November 2018, 18:30 – 20:00 Birkbeck, University of London, Room 106, 43 Gordon Square Free, but booking required. Register here. Beyond the speedy whirlwind of the Silicon Valley, behind the Zuckerbergs, Musks and Thiels and their 80-hour work weeks and save-the-world-with-technology mentality, lies a different story …
Birkbeck Cinema, 30th June 2018, 2:30pm Free entrance, book your tickets here. In this edition of the Vasari Digital Animation Series we invite curator Herb Shellenberger to deliver an illustrated lecture on the subject of curating experimental animation, discussing past projects and approaches to working with animated moving images across media. Herb Shellenberger Herb Shellenberger is …
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Professor Vicki Mayer, Tulane University Fri 8 June 2018, 18:00 – 20:00 School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, Room B04, London, WC1H 0PD Free, but booking required. Book here. What Would Google Do? This is the question that government managers, educational administrators, and business leaders have pondered for nearly twenty years of …
Jobs in the Data Industrial Complex: Four Stories from the Field Read More »
6 February 2018, 6:00-7:30pm Keynes Library (room 114), Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD No booking required In 1968, less than a year after it first became possible to produce holograms of people, Bruce Nauman began to work on two series of holographic self-portraits. Nauman made these luminous, intangible, three-dimensional images of …
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Fri 2 February 2018, 18:30 – 21:00 Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD Free entry, registration required. Book here. Artists Joey Holder and Candida Powell-Williams both use animation to explore the relationship between digital and biological forms. Holder’s work considers the structures and hierarchies of the technological and natural worlds, and how these systems …
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A CHASE Advanced Research Craft Workshop Session Goldsmiths, University of London & Birkbeck, University of London 19-20 January 2018 The Vasari Research Centre is pleased to collaborate with the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths on this CHASE funded advanced training workshop. This two-day workshop brings key practitioners in film, video, and sound together with …
Tue 5 December 2017, 18:00 – 20:00 A Workshop Led by Ben Ogrodnik (University of Pittsburgh) Birkbeck, University of London, Room G02, 28 Russell Square (entrance is through number 26), London, WC1H 0PD Free, but booking required. Tickets are available here. How do digital tools amplify, redefine, and destabilize the research questions and the data we commonly work with in …
Friday 24 November 2017, 18:30 – 21:00 Birkbeck, University of London Keynes Library 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD Free event, but registration is required. Book here. What would an adequate cultural theory of the changes brought about by computing look like? How would it work in relation to established forms of cultural and technical knowledge? What are …
Book launch – How To Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software, by Matthew Fuller Read More »
Reception , Thu, September 14, 2017, 6:00-9:00pm Birkbeck Cinema, WC1H 0PD 43 Gordon Square London, WC1H 0PD Free, but booking required. Book here. Twenty years after its release, GRAMMATRON remains a landmark of online hypertext art. Join Mark Amerika, Dene Grigar and Nick Lambert at a reception at the Gordon Square Cinema, Birkbeck, along with host Joel McKim, Director of …
Fri 25 November 2016, 09:45 – 18:30 Birkbeck University of London This symposium presents an opportunity to reflect upon several decades of major digitisation initiatives within UK cultural institutions. Motivated by the desire to improve public access and capitalise on the potential of new technologies, the mass digitisation of collections and archives in the UK has …
