Fwd from Critical Path:
SEAM 2009 Spatial Phrases
http://www.criticalpath.org.au/SEAM.html
http://www.criticalpath.org.au/seam_symposium.html
This September the SEAM Symposium is proud to present four leading
theorists at Customs House Sydney. Over two nights they will explore
the seams and ruptures between animate bodies, built environments and
their representation.
Customs House, Alfred St, Circular Quay
Tickets $15 at the door, due to limited seating it is essential to
RSVP at [email protected]
17th September, 6.30pm
Brian Massumi and Andrew Benjamin
This will be a unique opportunity to see two such eminent,
international philosophers in conversation on the body and
architecture. Brian Massumi and Andrew Benjamin bring to architecture
a critical rethinking of the ways new kinds of spaces construct and
are constructed by the body. Both speakers will begin with a short
introduction of ideas, followed by an open discussion. With the
projects of Dutch architecture firm NOX as the point of contact
between Massumi and Benjamin, the conversation will engage with the
urban body, material surface and new forms of architecture, and
embodied cognition and perception.
18th September, 6.30pm
Erin Manning and Pia Ednie-Brown
Our second keynote presentation will examine in more visceral detail
the possibilities of bodily interactions with environments. We are
delighted to have two truly transdisciplinary thinkers working across
the fields of sensation, the body and architectural space.
Erin Manning will present her theory of art and touch in the context
of her current project ?Folds to Infinity?, which has been installed
in Montreal, Berlin and Brazil. The presentation will delve into the
idea of enabling constraints in an exploration of how improvisation
meets choreography in participatory events, exploring the role of
touch within these participatory ecologies. Pia Ednie-Brown will
discuss the erotic resonance of transdisciplinarity, as understood in
terms of emergence, affect and ethics. Through examples, she will
explore engagement with this transversal eroticism in both valuing and
generating compositional vitality in the performances and objects we
make.
Speaker biographies
Brian Massumi is an internationally respected philosopher, cultural
theorist and social critic, initially famous for his translation of ?A
Thousand Plateaus? by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari into English. Since
then he has written and worked extensively across the disciplines of
art, architecture, politics and philosophy. His many books include,
?Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation? (2002), ?The
Politics of Everyday Fear? (1993) and ?A User?s Guide to Capitalism
and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari? (1992).
Andrew Benjamin is one of worlds leading architectural philosophers.
He is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics and
Director of the Research Unit in European Philosophy in the Faculty of
Arts at Monash University. Benjamin?s many books include
?Architectural Philosophy? (2000), ?Disclosing Spaces: On Painting?
(2004) and ?Style and Time, Essays on the Politics of Appearance?
(2006).
Erin Manning is assistant professor in studio art and film studies at
Concordia University (Montréal, Canada) as well as director of The
Sense Lab, an interdisciplinary environment that explores the active
relation between the philosophical, artistic and political sensing
body in movement. Her artwork is primarily devoted to painting and
sculpture. She dances Argentine Tango professionally. Publications
include ?Relationscapes? (2009), ?Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement,
Sovereignty? (2006) and ?Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation,
Home and Identity in Canada? (2003).
Pia Ednie-Brown is a writer, designer and educator based in Melbourne,
Australia. She lectures at RMIT University in the Architecture program
and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL). Her design
research practice, 'Onomatopoeia', engages with various forms of
writing, participatory events, interactive installations, animations,
sculptural objects and drawing. Her recently published book, ?Plastic
Green; designing for environmental transformation? (2009), offers an
account of one of her cross-disciplinary project collaborations with
other researchers and students at RMIT.
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Professor John Sutton
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Macquarie University, Sydney,
NSW 2109, Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132
http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/
ASCS09: 9th conference, Australasian Society for Cognitive Science
http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09
Memory Studies (Sage journal): http://mss.sagepub.com/
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