The Centre for Research on Intermediality of l’Université de Montréal, in collaboration with Media@McGill and the Department of Art History and Communications Studies, is pleased to invite you to a lunch-talk to be held at the McGill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish, in the "Old McGill Room” on the 3rd floor, Friday January 19th, 2007 from 12 to 2 pm.
André Habib (from Intermedialités) will lead the discussion around the theme:
Electronical Media Uses and Cultural Practices.
The discussion will deal with the cultural practices of those who use electronic media for the production and dissemination of cultural works. It will take up the question of esthetics where Benjamin left it (with the loss of the auratic and the cult value of art) so as to pose it once again in terms of the actual social uses of electronic media and of the cultural objects with which they are engaged. Will Straw’s article (forthcoming) deals with the role of the videocassette in acclimatizing audiences to the current cinema through the aesthetic reactivation of a semiotic past. Jonathan Sterne, building on his book The Audible Past, examines the success of the mp3 format, tracing a balance between its mediocre technical quality and the social performativity of its uses.
Guests:
Will Straw (Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill) and Jonathan Sterne (Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill)
The Intermediality Winter Workshops are held this year at McGill University: on this occasion, the CRI new members will have the opportunity to present their recent work in the Intermediality field. The workshops will adopt the form of a radio dialogue: every debate will be lead by a host, and the guests will dialogue on the given topic. The workshops will take place at noon. A light buffet will be served before the opening of the meeting. These workshops will be held once a month, during the 2007 winter session (the complete program will be soon available) and will be recorded. They will be available afterwards on the CRI WebSite here.
The workshops are opened to everyone.