Stephanie amon is an independent writer currently based in santa barbara. Together with rebecca schneider, and ioana jucan who wrote the introduction, we were offered the term remain to respond to as part of the series of investigations as to terms of media in contemporary context. Mainframe experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of silicon valleys technological revolutions in the 1970s. His talk explored the geophysics of media technologies, the bits and pieces of our planet that lurk inside our electronic gadgets and the role that art can play in making this situation more visible. Jussi parikka the alchemic digital, the planetary elemental an excerpt from a promotional video for the gold apple watch features a succession of shots of its casing and the gold alloys cast to make it. Humanities press, 2011, and in media zoology and waste management. Dust matter jussi parikka 51 ecologies of practice heidi rae cooley 57 ecology without nature timothy morton 63 crisis jason w. Moore 73 exhaustion depression franco bifo berardi 79 fracking brett neilson 85 grey ecology drew s. Focus more on designing and less on printing with fast speeds, reliable in printer processing, and hp printing materials. The researcher into poetry and technology is faced with a formidable task if, as jussi parikka recommends in a geology of media 2015, they do try to look behind the screen at its material history. In addition to the traditional historical approach to several media forms, we will focus specifically.
Animation development from pitch to production pdf printer. It borrows from michel foucault, walter benjamin, and friedrich kittler, but also diverges from all of these theorists to form a unique set of tools and practices. Ml52 interview in an interview with sydney shep on. The press blurb tells it this is gray literature publishing. Jussi parikka is a writer, media theorist and professor in technological culture and aesthetics at winchester school of art, university of southampton. The german writer walter benjamin was an early pioneer of such ways of thinking. Funct exhibition catalogue, south dublin arts centre, rua red, 1. Apr 01, 2010 jussi parikka in conversation with garnet hertz. His installation, in collaboration with ayhan aytes, explores the automata designed and constructed during the arabicislamic renaissance from early 9th to. The article analyzes the diagrammatic logic of the viral in network capitalism. The fibreculture journal has an international editorial board and committee. As a material assemblage, information technology also has. I am excited to announce that our coauthored booklet remain is now out and available via university of minnesota press and meson press open access pdf. This text reflects cultural techniques in relation to other concepts in cultural and media studies by addressing their relation to selected angloamerican and french discussions.
Theres a very simple question i want to ask this evening. New materialism appears everywhere, from jussi parikkas web presence to the expanding forest of publications that link newmat to visual arts practice in a variety of ways. Dato and i were strolling in the supreme pontiffs gardens at the. Through close engagement with the pioneering work of insect ethologists, posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and contemporary filmmakers and artists, jussi parikka provides a radical new. Moore 71 exhaustion depression franco bifo berardi 77 fracking brett neilson 83 grey ecology drew s. Garnet hertz and jussi parikkas article on zombie media discusses a host of significant issues relevant to our course concerns. He is the author of digital contagions 2007, insect media 2010 and what is media archaeology 2012 and coeditor of the spam book 2009 and media archaeology 2011, as well as editor of the online living book medianatures 2012. Here are my lecture notes from the lecture i gave to the ma in creative practice at uwe a couple of weeks ago.
Posts about software studies written by jussiparikka. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and minicomputers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of computer art. Insect media analyzes how insect forms of social organizationswarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligencehave been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. To do so, it charts a trajectory through some of the sources of media archaeology and its key theoretical articulations in the work of zielinski and friedrich kittler up to its more recent articulations in the work of jussi parikka and wolfgang ernst. Collective intelligence explores the artists work over the last ten years, examining her interdisciplinary practice, which focuses on collective intelligencea phenomenon observed in bacteria, animals, social movements, internet, cities. The mechanization of imitatio awed even the hailed renaissance artist leon battista alberti at the dawn of the gutenberg era. This seminar will focus on the historical and philosophical aspects of media and technology. Archaeologies of media and technology university of. Sampson the spam book on viruses, porn, and other anomalies from the dark side of digital culture hampton press 2009. So far, outside the collection media archaeology huhtamo and parikka 2011, even. Jussi parikka s book insect media 2010 also drew very insightful connections from insect behavior. Edited by erkki huhtamo and jussi parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from europe, north america, and japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate todays interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.
Jussi parikka e embroidered computer 150 biographies 154 selected bibliography 158 acknowledgements stitching worlds. The camera doesnt store the pictures on film or digital medium, but prints a photo directly on a roll of cheap receipt paper while it is taking it. Deploying the philosophical dimensions, from cosmos to mythology, huppauf commences and papastergiadis concludes the volume, the thread becoming materialized in a. Buy jussi parikka ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. He is also docent of digital culture theory at the university of turku in finland. Medianatures and dirty matter jussi parikka in the midst of theoretical debates and traditions concerning materialism also new, realism speculative and objects objectoriented philosophy, one of the most important things to realize is that a lot of the discourses stem. Jussi parikkaa geology of media gaia hypothesis materialism. In his introduction to digital contagions jussi parikka argues that the history of computer viruses offers new insights into the role that accidents play in modern culture. After reading chapter one on the book of media archaeology 1, written by jussi parikka and subsequently attending a symposium with the same person on friday, i gained a more comprehensive understanding about media effects in our society, specifically, how the nature of a medium influences us as well as our environment one element that dr. Together with rebecca schneider, and ioana jucan who wrote the introduction, we were offered the term remain to respond to as part of the series of investigations as to terms of media. Jussi parikka s a geology of media really expands what media theory can do. A geology of media screen and audiovisual research unit. Mainframe experimentalism by hannah higgins, douglas kahn. Randomness has a rich history in arts and literature, which i dont need to go into today.
Jussi parikka is professor of technological culture and aesthetics at university of southamptons winchester school of art and docent in digital culture theory at the university of turku, finland. Polity press, 2012 other course readings available on d2l evaluation your. The materiality of media is no longer restricted to questions of economies or technics but extends all the way to its molecular composition. Jussi parikka takes up a similar route in his recent study of the geology of media and points at the fact that, seen from this perspective, the historical account of photography can be read as a story of chemicals rather than simply of inventors, experimenters, or, we might add, artists 1 1. The transmedialemagazine is a new format of transmediale, a magazine on art and digital culture which marks the continued presence of transmediale in the city and internationally beyond the festival itself. It is so dull that not many humans have heard of it. For publication information on previously published material in this book. Medianatures picks up from donna haraways idea of naturecultures the topological continuum between nature and culture, the material entwining and enfolding of various agencies, meanings and interactions. Medianatures gives the concept of naturecultures a specific emphasis, and that emphasis is at the core of this living book. Dust matter jussi parikka 53 ecologies of practice heidi rae cooley 59 ecology without nature timothy morton 65 crisis jason w. Jussi parikka media history is millions, even billions, of years old. The second issue of transmedialemagazine features background information, interviews and visual impressions about the festival 2014 and its theme afterglow. From the printing press that replaced the meticulous work of monks copy ing texts to.
More broadly, the symbolic application or correlation of insect logic to other purposes, like artificial intelligence networks, swarm intelligence, and military practices robotic prototypes, models for drones, was influential. While looking backward to earths distant past, it also looks forward to a more expansive media theoryand, implicitly, media activismto come. Jussi parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy. Jussi parikka is a writer, media theorist and professor in. Burk 87 hackerspace johannes grenzfurthner, frank a. He is also visiting professor at famu in prague and visiting professor, chair of media archaeology, at university of udine, italy. Until may 2011 parikka was the director of the cultures of the digital economy code research institute at. At anglia ruskin university he holds an honorary visiting fellow position. The term describes myriad inventions in which the user. Exploring textiles and electronics stitching worlds. Parikka claims that accidents should not be seen as the result of technological malfunctions but rather are part of the normal functioning of a technological machine p.
Leiber preempts a much more recent writer of the biopolitics of. A geology of media electronic mediations jussi parikka on. Jussi parikkaa geology of media free ebook download as pdf file. A neomaterialist interpretation, virtual futures 95 1995. Jussi parikka abstract this text is an investigation into media culture, temporalities of media objects and planned obsolescence in the midst of ecological crisis and electronic waste. Pianotype composing machines of the 1840s melissa score the pianotype composing machines developed during the early nineteenth century were designed to mechanize the labourintensive process of setting type by hand. Jul 17, 2018 like the pair of mice in leo lionnis classic childrens book, i had a busy year in 2012. Examines digital media in the context of earlier media, such as handwriting and printing as well as photography, radio, film, and television. Combining strands from postfordist philosophy, meme theory, and computer virus technology, the text aims to provide tentative ideas of the infectious quality of the. I was mentioned by stanley fish in an antidigital humanities screed in the new york times. The device is something in between a polaroid camera and a digital camera. Coltan mk rare earth, short for columbitetanta lite, since humans like short and punchy names, is a dull black metallic ore.
May 10, 2012 electronic instant camera is a combination of an analog bw videocamera and a thermal receipt printer. Material produced by those who continued to use manual typewriters, electronic typewriters and wordprocessors, as well as those who printed from early dotmatrix printers, will therefore have lower accuracy rates when converted into digital text than writing produced on a home computer and with a laserjet printer. Transversal expansions, contractions, and foldings just as capacities of thought, of being, are made in lived bodies, in complex and delicately. Detailed explanations of each assignment will be given in class at the appropriate times. Copy jussi parikka the process of copying is a key cultural technique of modernity. A geology of media jussi parikka electronic mediations, volume 46 university of minnesota press minneapolis london parikka.
Minnesota ps new forerunners series, is a great little onenighter for those of us weighing anthropocene thoughts. The fibreculture journal now serves wider social formations across the international community of those thinking critically about, and working with, contemporary digital and networked media. A geology of media and a new materialism jussi parikka in conversation with annika richterich the design culture of the new hides the archaic materials of the planet. Here, annasophie springer will present a keynote drawing on recent work that aims to create sustained conversations about the future of natural history through exhibitionled enquiry bringing together natural history collections and contemporary art.
Jussi parikka if there is a material, technological, and industrial pollution, which exposes weather to conceivable risks, then there is also a second pollution, invisible, which puts time in danger, a cultural pollution that we have inflicted on longterm thoughts, those guardians of the earth, of humanity, and of things themselves. An archaeology of forms, 19591995, university of alabama press, 2007. Excerpts from and contextualisation of the anthrobscenebooklet in the context of designmaterial culture. Jan 08, 20 an account of randomness in literary computing mark sample mla 20, boston. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselvesearths history, geological formations, minerals, and energy. Voltage into generative pixels, and other lofi, recycled art.
Always there is the inadequacy of language to deal with the entanglement of materialising ideas. Exploring textiles and electronics edited by ebru kurbak this book results from the artsbased research project stitching worlds carried out between may 2014 and june 2018 at the department of industrial design 2, university of. Jussi parikka does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no. On friday, timespan will host a day of talks and workshops. Newly commissioned texts on the work of the artist agnieszka kurant by anselm frank, caroline a. Dec 26, 2019 perhaps the only rigorous approach is genealogy. Machinology machines, noise, and some media archaeology. May 21, 2017 ive written a piece for the new companion to digital humanities all about digital materiality that i think you might find interesting, because its building on a lot of stuff that is coming right out of loris work, and its looking at some of the key players like matt kirschenbaum and johanna drucker, people like jussi parikka and the whole.
Burk 89 hackerspace johannes grenzfurthner, frank a. Jussi parikka offers several answers to this question in his singleauthored book, while he and erkki huhtamo provide a canon of authors, and a range of perspectives, in their coedited collection. Mar 21, 2011 jesus padilla galvez october 28, 1959, almeria is a philosopher who worked primarily in philosophy of language, logic, and the history of sciences. Sampsons work has threaded its way through the digital cultures field by means of a series of radical interventions, drawing on such concepts as anomalies, accidents, assemblages, contagions, events, nonrepresentation, affect and neuroculture, in order to critically rethink how the. The anthropocene has been shaped by the media and our. Times entertainment news from hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals.
Increase your power to communicate with high line accuracy and a wide range of colors produced by original hp inks, including 2 blacks and a gray ink. The advent of new media in common parlance, a loose conglomeration of phenomena such as the internet, digital television, interactive multimedia, virtual reality, mobile communication, and video games, has challenged many scholars to investigate the media culture of late modernity. A proposition that newmat can provide a methodology. Copy jussi parikka the process of copying is a key cultural technique of. Theyre only notes, so there are probably a few places where they wont entirely make sense to anyone else, but hopefully they give a general sense of where media ecologies is coming from and some of the ways it might be as a useful methodology. Media archaeology is an approach to media studies that has emerged over the last two decades. Machines, noise, and some media archaeology by jussi parikka. A geology of mediademonstrates that the environment does not just surround our media cultural worldit runs through it, enables it, and hosts it in an era of unprecedented climate change. He is the author of digital contagions peter lang, 2007, insect media university of minnesota press, 2010, and what is media archaeology. An archaeology of animals and technology minneapolis. One of my current tasks is to convert a set of documents from docx files maintained.