For Whom the Medium Matters 4
September 13, 2019
The fourth annual event brought together local scholars, graduate students, and field-defining media theorists who build on the Toronto School tradition. These are scholars "for whom" the medium is central to their work and address "for whom" the medium comes to matter in different ways.
Working at the intersection of culture and technology, new research was shared by Keynotes: Rena Bivens and Avery Slater with Speakers: Ishtiaque Ahmed, Roberta Buiani, Joseph Clarke, Lauren Cramer, Cassandra Hartblay, M.E. Luka, Tanner Mirrlees, Jasmine Rault, Shirley Roburn, Joshua Synenko, Lilia Topouzova, and Jennifer Wemigwans.
For Whom the Medium Matters III
April 27, 2018
Keynotes:
Garnet Hertz The 2018 Maker's Bill of Rights: Reflections
on the First Decade of Maker Culture
Alessandra Renzi Media Mattering in the Milieu
Pecha Kucha:
Nicole Cohen Hustle, Cope, Organize!
Beth Coleman These Expensive, These is Red Bottoms
Sara Grimes You Know, For Kids!
Natalie Coulter Mining the authentic: superfans and microcelebrities
Steven Logan Nervous Systems
Cait McKinney AIDS Internet
McLeod Rogers City as Techno-human Sensorium: McLuhan, Tyrwhitt, Jacobs
Hélène Mialet Bodies, Machines and Dogs: Reflection on a new kind of assemblage
Felan Parker The Intermediary is the Massage
Scott Richmond What it is like to be a turtle
Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani Iranian women on Social Media, the Body as the Medium
Tero Karppi Facebook's Laboratory of Emotion
Phillipe Theophanidis Media: In the Mood for Modes
For Whom the Medium Matters II
April 21, 2017
Keynotes:
Kim Sawchuk (Concordia) +
Jennifer Pybus (University of the Arts, London)
Pecha Kucha:
Alex Boutros Alt.Health/Zombies
Kenzie Burchell Affordances, Apparatus, Assemblage
Lily Cho Mass Capture + Microfilm
T.L. Cowan Transmedial Drag
Alessandro Delfanti You’re Deactivated
Gary Genosko Undisciplinable
Alex Hanna Protest Data Futures
Mark Hayward Glog, or Technophany
Ian Milligan The Infinite Archive
David Nieborg The Platform is the Message
Michael Petit The Attraction of Distraction
Lilian Radovac Outside the Box
Jasmine Rault Codes/Screens/Filters
Sarah Sharma sExit Strategies
For Whom the Medium Matters
April 16, 2016
Keynotes:
Sarah Banet-Weiser (University of Southern California)
Radha Hegde (NYU)
Jody Berland (York University
Pecha Kucha:
Tracey Bowen Gentrifitti
Michael Darroch Detroit Windsor
Greg de Peuter Platforms for the Precariat
Mark Hayward Banking as Media Industry
Andrew Herman Cats that Look Like Kittler
Ganaele Langlois Distributed Subjectives
Patrick Keilty Desire by Design
Rhonda McEwen Tactile Interfaces
Irina D. Mihalache The Chef's Apron as Media
Judith Nicholson Smart Guns, Dumb Users?
Jeremy Packer Media's Governmental A Priori
David Phillips Against Privacy
Leslie Regan Shade Equality Matters
Elise Thorburn Carceral Infrastructures