Date: 2023-11-29 (Wed)
Time: 14:30-16:00
Venue: ELB LT3, G/F, CUHK
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13677920
Speakers:
Ashley Lee Wong (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Stephanie DeBoer (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Pang Laikwan (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Between Scarcity and Ubiquity: The Cultures of Circulation and Variable Materialities of Digital Art
Ashley Lee Wong
Bio:
Ashley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research bridges theory and practice to consider ways of thinking and engaging in contemporary cultural economies for artists and practitioners working with art and technology. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio that facilitates digital projects with artists and cultural institutions, and has worked as Head of Programmes of Sedition, an online platform for distributing digital limited edition by contemporary artists based in London, UK.
Macro/Micro Poetics and Politics: Toward a Genealogy of Spatially Scaled Practices for Urban Screens
Stephanie DeBoer
Bio:
Stephanie DeBoer is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in The Media School at Indiana University. Her research addresses the cultural, material, and spatial formations of media screens and facades; media and video art; media infrastructure; and public, urban, and global media geographies. She is writing a book entitled, Infrastructures on the Edge: On the Material, Poetic, and Political Valences of Screens in Urban Space, and is co-convener of Emergent Visions, a multi-modal project gathering artists, curators, and scholars for dialogue on the emergent visions, affects, and practices potentiated in and around urban screens.
Co-organized by the MA in Intercultural Studies Programme and the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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