Project Workshop with James Elkins

29 October 2011

In October 2011 James Elkins visits in Trondheim. On Wednesday 26 October he delivers a keynote speech about the boredom involved in looking at photographs (!). Elkins’ talk is based on his new book What Photography Is (Routledge 2011). (By the way, Sissel has reviewed this book for the journal Ekfrase: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture 2/2010.)

Saturday 29 October Elkins participates in a workshop organized by the Picturing the Brain project. Participants in the workshop include: Annamaria Carusi, Liv Hausken, Rita E. Nilsen, Jordi Puig, Anja Johansen, Kathrin Friedrich, Sarah de Rijcke, Anne Beaulieu, and Aud Sissel Hoel.

 

 

Media Acts – conference

Trondheim, 26-28 October, 2011.

Recent technological changes that involve digitization have been claimed to erase the differences among individual media and fundamentally to alter the conditions of perception and experience. In the art world, formerly dominant conceptions of art forms such as poetry, painting, sculpture, and even video art, which in the 1960s were codified as channeled sensory portals, have been replaced by blurred domains of new media art, of sound art and tangible media. What, then, in the current situation, does the disputed concept of ‘medium’ mean? Certainly, media still matter – but why, how and in what ways? The 10th NorSIS international conference addresses these questions by changing focus from what a medium is (in terms of substantial characteristics) to what media do.

http://www.ntnu.no/ikm/mediaacts

Keynotes: Jacques Rancière, James Elkins, Sara Danius, Frederik Tygstrup, and Aud Sissel Hoel.

Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation – conference

25-26 March, 2011

What difference does the current generation of computational technologies make to visualisation? This was the main question of the ‘Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation’ conference held in Oxford from 25th to 26th of March, 2011. With keynotes from Steve Woolgar, Peter Galison and Mike Lynch, the conference considered visualisations across the sciences, and from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives.

The conference was organized by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor, and Steve Woolgar. Ongoing publication initiatives spurred by the success of the conference are a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, and an edited collection. More details to follow shortly.

Have a look at more pictures of the conference here.

Picturing the Brain – kick-off meeting

13 December, 2010

Picturing the Brain kick-off meeting where all project participants and research partners meet for the first time. Asta Håberg (Department of Neuroscience, NTNU) lectures on fMRI in brain research, Tormod Selbekk (SINTEF) lectures on use of neuronavigation techniques in brain surgery and Touradj Ebrahimi (Q2S, NTNU) lectures on brain computing.

The meeting was hosted by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre.

Bodies in Translation – workshop

Trondheim, 14 December, 2009.

A group of people interested in science images – researchers with background in media studies, philosophy and art history, artists, and prospective PhD students – gather at TEKS-Trondheim Electronics Arts Center for a project development workshop. Presentations were held by Jan Gunnar Skogås (Operating Room of the Future, St. Olav’s Hospital), Espen Gangvik (TEKS), Dag Svanæs (Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU), Merete Lie (Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU), and Jordi Puig (Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, NTNU).

Participants include: Andrew Perkis, Aud Sissel Hoel, Liv Hausken, Jordi Puig, Rita E. Nilsen, Espen Gangvik (TEKS), Anja Johansen (NTNU), Susanne Ø. Sæther (University of Oslo), and Kaja Vik (Midgard Media Lab). This is when it is decided:

We want to focus on the brain!