Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to announce the launch of "Marshall McLuhan and Vil??m Flusser's Communication and Aesthetic Theories Revisited" on Sunday, November 15, from 6pm to 8pm in the Video Pool Production Studios at 300-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg. You are most cordially invited to join in the festivities and celebration. November 15, 2015, 6pm-8pm Video Pool Media Arts Centre Production Studios 300-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is proud to present the launch of the book "Marshall McLuhan and Vil??m Flusser's Communication and Aesthetic Theories Revisited". This scholarly book of academic analyses and artists??? position papers represents the proceedings of the international conference of the same name convened by Dr. Melentie Pandilovski in 2012. This book includes discussions McLuhan and Flusser???s influence on media and communication theory as it applies to contemporary and new media art, film, philosophy and politics, and this book would be of immediate interest to readers and researchers interestested in: distributed consciousness and telematics; cinema and causality; collective evolution; media and theology; digital culture; Occupy Wall Street and other political movements; cybernetics; contemporary technological art; the ideologies of clinical practice; asemic writing; institutional critique and many other topics. Please join us for this celebration of the results of long effort, and have a toast to Video Pool???s first book-length publication! For more information about purchasing a paper or electronic version of this book, please contact vpprogramm...@videopool.org. Contents: Introductory Text by DR. MELENTIE PANDILOVSKI DR. BARBARA RAUCH: Antenna Methods CLINT ENNS: Charting the Montage: The Roots of Algorithmic Cinema DR. DAN MELLAMPHY: Between Beckett and Bec: The M??tic Hexis and Flusserian Flux of Vampyroteuthis Abductionis DAVID E. CARRILLO FUCHS and MARCO ANTONIO CALDER??N ZACAULA: A Flusserian Approach to the Compound Visual Interface: the Limits of the Technical Image Dr. MELENTIE PANDILOVSKI: The Shifting Platform of Media MONIKA VRE??AR: Art in the New Media Environment: Change versus Novelty DR. PAUL LEVINSON: Occupy Wall Street in the Global Village DR. PETER SCHWENGER: Asemic Writing: Backwards Into the Future PROF. PHILIP POCOCK: Vil??m Flusser and Marshall McLuhan ??? Matrix and Wave: Toward a Quantum Theory of Media DR. POLONA TRATNIK: Observing ??? Knowing ??? Mediating: The Body as World to Explore DR. RICHARD CAVELL, Mechanical Brides and Vampire Squids ROY ASCOTT: Flusser???s Dread and McLuhan???s Dream SCOTT BILLINGS: Giacometti???s Foot: Automobility and Cinematic Causality DR. SIMONE MAHRENHOLZ ???We Do Not Make Gestures, We are Gesticulations of the Environment??? ??? Flusser???s Aesthetico-Logical Critique of Contemporary Epistemology DR. STEPHEN CROCKER: Sense and Common Sense in McLuhan TOM KOHUT: Electronic.Technical.Digital: The Ontology of the Digital Image Artists presented in the anthology: Richard Altman, Manuel Chantre, Lei Cox, Andrew Milne, Doug Smith. Screenings: McLuhan's Wake (2003) and Vil??m Flusser: "We Shall Survive in the Memories of Others" (2010), Video Pool Meets McLuhan and Flusser (Clint Enns, Erika MacPherson, Freya Bj??rg Olafson, Heidi Phillips, Sandee Moore, Michael Stecky, Aaron Zeghers, Collin Zipp) ________________________ Dr. Melentie Pandilovski Director Video Pool Suite 221 100 Arthur Street Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3B 1H3 204-949-9134 ex 7 www.videopool.org vpdirec...@videopool.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org