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Mothering Bacteria installed @ C&C | DIS 2019
An iteration of our ongoing project Mothering Bacteria is currently installed at Ecologies of Transformation, an exhibition for the 2019 ACM conferences Creativity and Cognition (C&C) and Design Interactive Systems (DIS). Mothering Bacteria: A Speculative Forecast of the Body as an Interface (2018) Bodies are interfaces, thresholds, vestibules, and gateways capable of hosting, carrying and…
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Mothering Bacteria at the 2019 ASLE Conference @ UC Davis
prOphcey Sun and Freya Zinovieff have been busy rehearsing for the upcoming presentation of “Mothering Bacteria: Shifting Borderlands in Algorithmic Spaces” at 2019 ASLE Conference @ UC Davis June 26-30. Continuing with our explorations on research-creation and different media formats and outputs, they have developed a performative delivery of their academic paper. Before arriving…
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Jo Shin recently came back from CHI 2019, congratulations!
Jo Shin presented the paper ” Collective Wisdom: Inquiring into Collective Homes as a site for HCI” at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. Based on her master’s degree research on three collective homes in Vancouver, Shin offers two contributions to HCI scholarship. First, an in-depth design…
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Manifesting Resistance in HASTAC 2019!
Join us today in HASTAC to listen to Jo Shin present our project Manifesting Resistance. Session 6B, Saturday 2:00 PM, Room The Nest 2301.
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Congratulations Jo Shin on your MA thesis defense!
Last Monday, Feb 25 Jo Shin successfully defended her thesis “Collective Wisdom”: Inquiring into Collective Homes as a Site for HCI Design at SFU Surrey Campus. In this research, Jo engages with emergent Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship that expands the traditional characterization of ‘the home’. Jo’s thesis contributes to HCI studies of domestic environments through…
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Lab Updates: Conferences to keep in mind
Dear all in MCL and cMAS, after our lab meeting yesterday we decided to start a list with some useful resources for all to share. To initiate this trend we decide to do a series of blog posts, but we are open to other ways of sharing this info. Our first entry is on conferences…
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Excited to announce the first meeting of the Anthropocene Reading Group
Freya Zinovieff is organizing the Anthropocene Reading Group hosted by MCL/cMAS at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology in SFU Surrey Campus The group will meet once a month in room 3910 at SFU Surrey campus, and you are welcome to join in person or via Skype. Our first session is scheduled on Wednesday October…
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Welcome Sasha Kleinplatz to MCL/cMAS
We are really excited to welcome Sasha Kleinplatz to the critical media arts studio and making culture lab in SIAT. Sasha Kleinplatz http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2018/09/welcome-sasha-kl…platz-to-mclcmas/
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International Colloquium of Graphic Notation, Mexico City, September 12-14, 2018
Thanks to Cinthya García Leyva(ACT/UNAM), Susana González Aktories (FFyL/UNAM), Barbara Ventarola (FU Berlin), Georg Witte (FU Berlin) and everyone at ACT arte, cienciay tecnología for inviting me to present the work of Uruguayan composer Carmen Barradas at the Colloquio Internacional de Notación. It was an honor to present with Llorenç Barber, Patricio F. Calatayud and Carlos…
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Freya Zinovieff at the 2018 RGB-IBG Annual International Conference in Cardiff
Freya Zinovieff just returned from Cardiff where she presented the paper “Confluence of Relations: An Auto-Ethnographic Account of Field Recording in the Anthropocene Age” as part of the panel Landscape Becoming and Time. Past, present and future: dwelling in Human Geography and beyond at the 2018 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference. Freya…
