BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5738-eff94e516b324cb925142b49c7a3a200@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260608T154753Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200319T170000 SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Digital Culture and Media Initiative Lecture by James J. Hod ge, Department of English and Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University DESCRIPTION:\n \;\n\nThis event has been canceled and will be resche duled during the academic year 2020-21 if possible.\n\n"\;Ordinary M edia: The Aesthetics of Always-On Computing"\; In the 1990s the emer gence of the World Wide Web changed the media landscape decisively if un certainly. In the first decade or so of the 2000s the tectonics of that media landscape again shifted remarkably with the rise of always-on comp uting: the milieu of smartphones\, social media\, and ubiquitous wireles s networks. This second shift may be seen as one from "\;new"\; media to "\;ordinary"\; media. The historical present of ordinar y media is characterized by the popular embrace of a remarkable number o f new networked genres\, including selfies\, ASMR videos\, supercuts\, a nimated GIFs\, memes\, podcasts\, tweets\, and much else. This talk focu ses on artistic expressions of this new terrain\, arguing that these gen res embody strategies of provisional attunement to the vicissitudes of t he historical present. Speaker bio: James J. Hodge is Associate Professo r in the department of English and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Hu manities at Northwestern University. His book Sensations of History: Ani mation and New Media Art was published in fall 2019 by the University of Minnesota Press. His essays on digital aesthetics have appeared in the journals Critical Inquiry\, Postmodern Culture\, and Triquarterly\, amon g others. His current book project\, "\;Ordinary Media: The Aestheti cs of Always-On Computing\,"\; examines a range of experimental and popular digital artworks in their capacity to express the felt dynamics of always-on computing\, from anxiety and sociability to productivity an d vulnerability.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/di gital_culture_and_media_initiative_lecture_by_james_j_hodge_department_o f_english_and_alice_kaplan_institute_for_the_humanities_northwestern_uni versity/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

 

Th is event has been canceled and will be rescheduled during the academic y ear 2020-21 if possible.

"Ordinary Media: The Aesthetics of A lways-On Computing" In the 1990s the emergence of the World Wide We b changed the media landscape decisively if uncertainly. In the first de cade or so of the 2000s the tectonics of that media landscape again shif ted remarkably with the rise of always-on computing: the milieu of smart phones, social media, and ubiquitous wireless networks. This second shif t may be seen as one from "new" media to "ordinary" media. The historical present of ordinary media is characterized by the popular embrace of a remarkable number of new networked genres, includin g selfies, ASMR videos, supercuts, animated GIFs, memes, podcasts, tweet s, and much else. This talk focuses on artistic expressions of this new terrain, arguing that these genres embody strategies of provisional attu nement to the vicissitudes of the historical present. Speaker bio: James J. Hodge is Associate Professor in the department of English and the Al ice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. His book Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art was published in fall 2019 by the University of Minnesota Press. His essays on digital a esthetics have appeared in the journals Critical Inquiry, Postmodern Cul ture, and Triquarterly, among others. His current book project, "Or dinary Media: The Aesthetics of Always-On Computing," examines a ra nge of experimental and popular digital artworks in their capacity to ex press the felt dynamics of always-on computing, from anxiety and sociabi lity to productivity and vulnerability.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e vent/digital_culture_and_media_initiative_lecture_by_james_j_hodge_depar tment_of_english_and_alice_kaplan_institute_for_the_humanities_northwest ern_university/

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