Geoff Cox, post.doc at Digital Urban Living and Department for Information and Media Studies, is speaking at 3 upcoming cenferences:
- PARADE - public modes of assembly
- Dematerial - critical debates in digital arts
- Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency
Geoff Cox is part of the Digital Urban project: Digital Art.
PARADE – public modes of assembly and forms of address
21-23 May, The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK. http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php?title=Public_Space
In close connection to some of the concerns of DUL, the Critical Practice Research group explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public. Set in a bespoke, temporary structure with a host of international contributors, Parade challenges the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. As part of what they refer to as the Market of Ideas, Geoff Cox (DUL) will be presenting with Rui Guerra (from V2 in Rotterdam).
For more details, see http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php?title=Parade_Market_of_Ideas_May_23%2C_2010
Dematerial - critical debates in digital arts
24 May, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, http://www.dematerial.org/critical-debates-digital-arts
The Dematerial seminars have been commissioned by Arts Council England and University College Falmouth to address the ways the arts sector is changing. Developments in information and communications technology are affecting the way people think and behave and are impacting on their expectations as cultural producers and consumers. Through a series of critical debate sessions the Arts Council aims to equip itself and the sector with the knowledge and understanding to adapt and respond to these changes. Speakers include: Lise Autogena, Ele Carpenter, Ruth Catlow, Tom Corby, Geoff Cox, Charlotte Frost, KMA, Kate Rich, Clare Reddington, Patrick Simons and Helen Sloan. Geoff Cox (DUL) will presenting at the Bristol event that aims to draw out some of the key issues and conflicts between art and commerce within the realm of the digital. For more details, see http://www.dematerial.org/bristol-event
Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency
26 and 27 May, University of Plymouth, UK, http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=events&eventID=5283&showEvent=1
Organised by KURATOR/Art & Social Technologies research (K/AST) and Culture Theory Space research groups at the University of Plymouth, the symposium examines the relational aesthetics paradigm that proposes new participatory relations between spectators, rather than between a spectator and the art object. Questions include: Can a sociable art take a political turn? How do new technologies of sociability address this? How does art or theory address global issues such as climate change and social division? Is there a viable aesthetic for today's time of emergency? Speakers include: David Butler (Newcastle University), Helen Evans (HeHe, Paris), Alana Jelinek (University of Cambridge), Nicola Kirkham (University College London), Malcolm Miles (University of Plymouth), Christoph Schäfer (Park Fiction, Hamburg), and Geoff Cox (DUL). For more details, see http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=events&eventID=5283&showEvent=1
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