Online Reading Group

This semester, Experience Lab is hosting an online reading group on Media ecology, mediation and spatiality. The next session is May 10th 2019

The reading group is an informal, online, transdisciplinary gathering.

The joint inquiry is how physical environments can be understood as media of information and communication; how media (in a broad sense) can be seen as environments, or as co-constitutive of spatial experience.

We are at present particularly exploring media ecology as umbrella term and approach and exploring its connections to post-phenomenology and (post-) actor-network theory and the concept of mediation, found in these approaches.

Literature for zoom session May 10th 2019

Timothy Barker Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 19 (1):50-68 (2015)

Michel Serres Angels: Angels (suggested reading p 38-58)

Join Online meeting: Time: May 10, 2019 1:00 PM Copenhagen

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:    https://deic.zoom.us/j/710043863

 

This semester, Experience Lab will host an online ’reading group’ on Media ecology, mediation and spatiality.

The reading group discussions take place online in zoom.

Participants are expected to have read the literature for the session.

Media ecology, mediation and spatiality

Reading and discussion of literature contributing to our understanding of how physical environments can be understood as media of communication and information – and how media (in a broad sense) can be seen as environments.

The online discussions are organized by Associate Professor, PhD Connie Svabo and PhD candidate Signe Lykke Littrup. Their shared interest in digital / actual intertwinements in museum exhibition experiences, informs the inquiries.

The meeting is open for everyone. The meeting will be in English or Danish, depending on the participants. Collaborators and students are welcome – share the link.

See you

Connie og Signe

 

Overview of sessions

Media ecology 11/2 (at 13-14)

McLuhan & Fiore, from ”The Medium is the Massage” – p. 1-90

Cali, D.D.: Mapping Media Ecology – Introduction to the Field, Chaper 1: What is Media Ecology?, pp. 1-16, Peter Lang Publishing, 2017

Mediation 11/3 (at 1-2pm)

Verbeek et al.: Technological Environmentality: conceptualizing technology as a Mediating Milieu

VR, AR & Mixed Realities? 11/4 (at 1-2pm)

Will most probably be combined with a full day seminar on Virtual Reality, Learning and Experience. Format and reading to be decided

Michel Serres’ ontology of mediation as media ecology 10/5 (at 1-2pm)

Barker: Media Ecology in Michel Serres’ Philosophy of Communication

Michel Serres: Angels (excerpt)