In the last ten years, we have experienced a rise in online virtual worlds with online practices that jointly connect with our offline practices. The virtual world Second Life is one of the most interesting examples of this, where the user is simultaneously engaged in both online and offline practices via his/her avatar.
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The Avatar Matters: Analytic Alternatives to understand Materiality & Gender by Stine Johanne Thiesen
Karen Barad, professor and best known for her theory of agential realism, was one of the keynote speakers at the conference Feminist Materialisms I attended this week. In her speak ”Re-membering the future: Material entanglements and temporal diffractions”, she gave a interesting view on the concepts of time, space, matter and causality.
Karen Barad's speak about intra-actions
Her academic background as a Ph.D. in theoretical physics came into play, when she unfolded understandings of trans-materiality and matter “as a doing” with the example of Niels Bohr’s interest in the two-split experiment with his focus on “what exits before an experiment? “
Barad spoke further about “phenomenons” as something that consist of intra-actions of objects (tested) and agency of interactions (apparatus). In other words the nature of nature depends on how it is measured.
Last session with keynote speakers Karen Barad and Vicky Kirkby
In April 2012, I will be attending the international ”Feminist Materialism” conference held at University of Copenhagen. Prof. Karen Barad is main speaker together with fx. Nina Lykke.
Read more:
Feminist Materialisms conference: Call for abstracts – Københavns Universitet.
Read my Master’s Thesis “A Sense of Place in Second Life® - A Theoretical Analysis of a Virtual World” (only in Danish) .
The conference Distance Learning at The Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) is a vital step in using e-learning in higher education. The conference will show how live-streaming can be used in daily practice, and discuss the didactics of the new technologies. I am involved in the project as coordinator.
Further reading: http://www.dkdm.dk/Internationalt/Distance%20Learning%20Conference.aspx
The conference is held 26th-27th of August 2011.
The Copenhagen Design Week is coming up soon... The CITA research environment will be part of the festival with an installation. CITA focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to architecture practice with the use of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics and artificial intelligence.
Further reading: http://www.copenhagendesignweek.com/category/architecture/events/cita-thicket-installation
More on CITA:http://cita.karch.dk/
The Design Week runs from 1-6 of September 2011
On a stormy and rainy night, I went to see Lars von Trier’s new movie “Melancholia”. The weather set the scene perfectly for the movie which portraits the end of the world. This rather depressing point of departure gives way to a surprisingly soothing feeling as a viewer – a feeling of relief. This relief or mental pause from society is something not all of us seek, but certainly something that we in our lives unexpectedly gets confronted by. The movie is divided into two parts with many sub layers that evolves as the movie pro(de)gresses. This visual- tour- de -force- of- a- movie ought to be seen in red comfortable chairs and dark surroundings…
More on “Melancholia” and Trier:
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