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Ctrl-Z new media philosophy
by Benjamin Forster
Fremantle Arts Centre
McKenzie Wark
Achromatism - Benjamin Forster
Niall Lucy
Catherine Malabou
Gregory Ulmer
Bernard Stiegler
Mark Amerika
Interzone by Darren Tofts
Tikki Horse by Chantal Faust
Catharine Lumby
Claire Colebrook
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Submissions for the first issue of the journal (to appear by mid next yr) should be forwarded to either of the founding editors by 31 March 2012:ROBERT BRIGGSNIALL LUCYCreative and critical submissions using any style or referencing system are welcome. Submissions may use experimental, traditional or multimedia formats.
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Ctrl-Z is a peer-reviewed international online journal and exhibition space from the Centre for Culture & Technology at Curtin University.The journal flickers at the intersection of multiple possible relations between 'new', 'media' and 'philosophy', disrupting any notion of these being understood as a simple series of modifying terms.To what extent, for example, do 'new media' represent a new concept and mode of art, or provide for radically different forms of social and political practice? What kinds of histories, social formations and aesthetic transformations may be called for or identified by 'new media' understood in the broadest possible sense of the term?What does philosophy have to say about new media, given that it has never had much to say about 'old' media? What are the implications of media -- new or old -- for the objects or fields of enquiry (existence, knowledge, ethics and so on) that have traditionally been the domain of philosophy? What might a philosophy of (new) media look like? What forms and concepts might it invent?Alternatively, have art and philosophy been made redundant by new media? Or can electronic and networked communications technologies function as new media of philosophical investigation and creative practice? Is a new philosophy (a 'new ontology', for instance) or a philosophy of 'the new' possible today and, if so, to what extent must such philosophy allow for questions of (the) media?To what extent, too, do new media necessitate a rethinking of traditional concepts of communication and representation? If these concepts may be seen to underpin traditional ideas of community and the public (to which, historically, journalism has addressed itself), then what might new media have to say to and about contemporary political, professional and philosophical frameworks for traditional media practice?These and similar matters -- questions concerning culture and technology, as it were -- are the focus of Ctrl-Z, which welcomes creative and critical submissions in experimental, traditional and multimedia formats.
EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITORIAL BOARD
FOUNDING EDITORSRobert Briggs (Curtin University, Aus)Niall Lucy (Curtin University, Aus)EDITORIAL BOARDMark Amerika (University of Colorado, US)Louis Armand (Charles University, Czech Republic)Mark Balnaves (Curtin University, Aus)Clare Birchall (University of Kent, UK)Paul Bowman (Cardiff University, Wales)Claire Colebrook (Penn State, US)Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, UK)Simon Cooper (Monash University, Aus)Sean Cubitt (University of Southampton, UK)Chantal Faust (Royal College of Art, UK)Glen Fuller (University of Canberra, Aus)Sue Golding (University of Greenwich, UK)Lisa Gye (Swinburne University of Technology, Aus)Martin Hirst (Deakin University, Aus)John Kinsella (University of Western Australia/Cambridge University, UK)Peter Krapp (University of California, Irvine, US)José Angel García Landa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)Tama Leaver (Curtin University, Aus)Catharine Lumby (University of Sydney, Aus)Catherine Malabou (University of Paris X-Nanterre, France)Martin McQuillan (Kingston University, UK)Norie Neumark (La Trobe University, Aus)Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Aus)Bernard Stiegler (University of Technology of Compiègne, France)Paul Thomas (Curtin University, Aus)Tony Thwaites (University of Queensland, Aus)Darren Tofts (Swinburne University of Technology, Aus)Gregory Ulmer (European Graduate School, Switzerland)McKenzie Wark (The New School, US)
EVENTS
Ctrl-Z Writing in the Age of New MediaPresented by the Centre for Culture & Technology (CCAT) & Fremantle Arts CentreSat 19 November 12:30-6:00pm _ Fremantle Arts CentreBar OpenCanapes ProvidedTickets: $20 in advance from FAC$25 on the day (subject to availability)Artworks by Benjamin ForsterInstallation by Robert Briggs & Niall LucyLive Music by The Morning NightIn the age of personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter, Word, Photoshop, SMS, email, desktop- and e-publishing, blogging and fan fiction, autocorrect and track changes, who -- or what -- is a writer?Ctrl-Z is an arts symposium aimed at exploring the possibilities of writing in the age of new media. While the means and opportunities for writing are seemingly forever multiplying, can the same be said for the ways in which we think about what we call writing, or what we call a writer? How, today, does writing take shape: how is it produced, published, distributed and read? How might we account for cultural anxieties over the ill-effects or improper uses of new writing technologies (illiteracy, plagiarism, piracy, cyberbullying), and how might we imagine new ways of thinking about creativity, technology and communication?Featuring panel discussions, video screenings, exhibitions, live music and more, Ctrl-Z will appeal to anyone with a professional or personal interest in writing as a cultural and communicative practice -- from humanities academics, postgraduates and English and Media teachers to authors, artists and creative media practitioners; from arts patrons to general readers. Cutting across academic, professional and public divides, Ctrl-Z will present an engaging and entertaining occasion to reflect on what it means -- now -- to write and to be a writer.Guests & contributorsMark Amerika Professor of Art & Art History (University of Colorado at Boulder). A Time Magazine 100 Innovator, Amerika is a pioneer of new media art and writing, and founder of ALT-X online publishing in the US. His digital artwork has been exhibited in major galleries around the world, and his writings on art are collected in META/DATA: A Digital Poetics and remixthebook. His novels include The Kafka Chronicles; Sexual Blood; and 29 Inches.Robert Briggs Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication (Curtin University), co-editor of Manufacturing Consent? and founding co-editor of Ctrl-Z: new media philsophy.Claire Colebrook (virtual presenter) Professor of Literary Theory at Penn State University. Her books include Ethics and Representation; Gilles Deleuze; Milton, Evil and Literary History; and Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics and the Digital. Benjamin Forster Founding member of Canberra-based interdisciplinary arts collective, Last Man to Die. His work has been exhibited at FAC, PICA and in Canada.John Kinsella (virtual presenter) Professor of English (UWA/Cambridge) and award-winning, internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, editor and critic.Tama Leaver Academic blogger and digital media scholar (Curtin University), and author of Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology, Bodies. His blog Tamar Leaver dot Net is archived by the National Library of Australia.Niall Lucy Professor of Critical Theory (Curtin University), broadcaster, media commentator and founding co-editor of Ctrl-Z: new media philosophy. His books include A Derrida Dictionary; Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology; and Pomo Oz: Fear and Loathing Downunder.Catharine Lumby Professor of Journalism and Media Research (University of New South Wales) and media commentator. Her books include The Porn Report; Alvin Purple; Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s; and Why TV is Good for Kids: Raising 21st Century Children.Suvendrini Perera Professor of Cultural Studies (Curtin University), media commentator and author of Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies.Georgia Richter Commissioning Editor of adult fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry (Fremantle Press).Anne Surma Distinguished Editor, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Writing (Murdoch University) and author of Public and Professional Writing: Ethics, Imagination and Rhetoric.Darren Tofts Professor of Media & Communication (Swinburne University) and cultural critic. His books include Interzone: Media Arts in Australia; Parallax: Essays on Art, Culture and Technology; and Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture.Gregory Ulmer (virtual presenter) Professor of English (University of Florida) and Professor of Electronic Languages & Cybermedia (European Graduate School, Switzerland). His books include Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video; Heuristics: The Logic of Invention; and Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy.McKenzie Wark (virtual presenter) Chair of Culture & Media (The New School, New York) and media commentator. His books include A Hacker Manifesto; Gamer Theory; Celebrites, Culture and Cyberspace; and The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International.& special guestsThe Morning NightPROGRAM(Bar open all day)1:00-1:15 OPENING ADDRESSWelcome and introduction from event organisers, Niall Lucy and Robert Briggs1:15-2:00 WRITING MEDIAPanel discussion on the nature of authorship, art and creativity, and the history of writing technologies -- Darrent Tofts, Catharine Lumby, Niall Lucy, Mark Amerika2:00-2:30 WRITING FREELYFree time to interact with participants and attendees, to peruse exhibitions, and to view screenings of pre-recorded interviews and commentary from absent contributors -- McKenzie Wark, Claire Colebrook, Gregory Ulmer, John Kinsella2:30-3:15 WRITING ANXIETIESPanel discussion on moral panics over the impact of new technologies on a range of writing and social practices -- Catharine Lumby, Tama Leaver, Suvendi Perera, Robert Briggs3:15-3:45 WRITING FREELYFree time to interact with participants and attendees, to peruse exhibitions, and to view screenings of pre-recorded interviews and commentary from absent contributors -- McKenzie Wark, Claire Colebrook, Gregory Ulmer, John Kinsella3:45-4:30 WRITING READERSPanel discussion on new media publishing opportunities and challenges and the role of the reading public in the production of writing -- Georgia Richter, Anne Surma, Darren Tofts, Mark Amerika4:30-5:30 WRITING ENTERTAINMENTComplementary canapes and music by The Morning Night
ISSUES
ISSUES
lssue 1 to appear in mid-2012.Thereafter issues to appear twice annually in May and November.
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LINKS
Cultural Science
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Fremantle Arts Centre
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Culture Machine
Leonardo
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borderlands
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Vectors
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emptybook
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ctheory
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Media History
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eventmechanics
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CRASH
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Future of the Book
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Fibreculture
CONTACT
CONTACT
Email the editors:Robert BriggsNiall Lucy
