Weimar (Germany), June 6-10, 2011
\nDeadline: Feb 20, 2011<\/p>\n
The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universit\u00e4t Weimar (Internationales Kolleg f\u00fcr
\nKulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM) and Princeton University (Department of German), will take place from June 6 \u2013 June
\n10, 2011 in Weimar, Germany. Conceived as the first in a series of annual summer schools that will be held alternately at the IKKM Weimar
\nand at Princeton University, the 2011 program will be directed by Lorenz Engell (Weimar) and Thomas Levin (Princeton).<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s summer school will focus on the comparative analysis and theoretical investigation of selected aspects of surveillance culture.
\nThe weeklong series of seminars, workshops, and lectures will be devoted to an examination of the technological, aesthetic, political,
\nand conceptual dimensions of surveillance practices. The summer school will address these practices specifically within the categories of
\nmonitoring, tracking, and data aggregation.<\/p>\n
The concept of monitoring is especially relevant to surveillance practices inherent in television technology and therefore refers to new
\nforms of engaging with the visual. Tracking, on the other hand, refers to a wider scope of the politics of control, which are promoted, for
\ninstance, by the use of devices such as GPS and cell phone positionality services. Furthermore, these politics also underlie the
\nemerging cultures of social media.<\/p>\n
The aggregation of vast databases of personal information gathered from, for example, frequent flyer accounts, surfing history,
\ntoll-roads, cell phone and credit card usage, all result from the ability to track information. This process of data aggregation is aimed
\nat the production of cyber-portraiture – or the \u2018data shadow\u2019 – which exists for nearly everyone and calls into question the notion of
\ninformational self-determination within the framework of what one could call a surveillance ontology (I am surveilled therefore I am).<\/p>\n
The summer school will discuss and compare these practices of surveillance and offer in-depth analyses of both the conceptual
\nframework and the media of surveillance.<\/p>\n
Reference \/ Quellennachweis:
\nANN: Monitoring and Surveillance \u2013 Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer
\nSchool for Media Studies 2011. In: H-ArtHist, Feb 2, 2011.
\n<http:\/\/arthist.net\/archive\/769>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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