[Air-L] Matthew Fuller Software Studies Book Launch 24 November Birkbeck

[Joel McKim]

The Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology at Birkbeck is pleased to
invite you to an upcoming event involving many of the key figures in
contemporary software studies. The event is free, but please do register
via the Eventbrite link below.



All best wishes and apologies for cross-posting,


Joel





*Matthew Fuller How To be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software Book
Launch – 24th November, Birkbeck*





What would an adequate cultural theory of the changes brought about by
computing look like? How would it work in relation to established forms of
cultural and technical knowledge? What are the aesthetic and political
dimensions of things such as algorithms, interfaces, encryption, and
programming languages? The diversity and richness of computational
processes and structures, as well as their commanding economic and
political position, requires engaged and technically informed critical
investigation and invention.



To mark the publication of Matthew Fuller's new collection of essays *How
To Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software*, a panel of co-authors and
collaborators on various chapters in this book will convene to present
brief overviews of their work in this area. A wine reception will follow
the presentations.



Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, author of *Media Ecologies: Materialist
Energies in Art and Technoculture* and co-author of *Evil Media*)



M. Beatrice Fazi (Sussex Humanities Lab, author of *Contingent Computation:
Abstraction, Experience and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics*)



Andrew Goffey (University of Nottingham, co-author of *Evil Media*)



Olga Goriunova (Royal Holloway, author of *Art Platforms and Cultural
Production on the Internet*)



Graham Harwood (Goldsmiths, and YoHa.co.uk)



Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster, author of *Machine Learners*)



Nikita Mazurov (Malmo University and SecDev)



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Dr. Joel McKim

Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

Co-Director BA Media and Culture and MA Digital Media

Director of Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies

Birkbeck, University of London

43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD