[Air-L] SPACE OUT! Interstellar Media, International ICCIT Symposium at the University of Toronto Mississauga, March 5-6, 2025

[Tero Karppi]

*SPACE OUT! Interstellar Media*



International ICCIT Symposium at the University of Toronto Mississauga,
March 5-6, 2025.



The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology is
inviting you to a research symposium on the media, culture, and life in the
cosmos.



- The invited speakers are Valerie Olson, UC Irvine; Fred Scharmen, Morgan
State University; Katarina Damjanov, The University of Western
Australia; De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Indiana University Bloomington; and
Chris Russill, Carleton University.



*-Space Down* a film by Dominic Gagnon will be screened and followed by a
Q&A with the filmmaker.



- University of Toronto PhD students Upasana Bhattacharjee, Lauren Knight,
Suarjan Prasai, Bryan Mark, Yuxing Zhang, Arun Jacob, Kaushar Mahetaji,
Lucas Wong, Priyanka Verma, Hiu-Fung Chung and Mathew Iantorno will deliver
5-minute “theory pill” talks that target a number of concepts that revolve
around the symposium theme. You will also hear from the organizers
Marie-Pier Boucher, Jeremy Packer, and Tero Karppi.



SPACE OUT! When the current and former owners of social media sites and
e-commerce platforms increasingly turn their lustful gaze to outer space,
we should take note. Yes, outer space is obviously the site of future
wealth and resources, but it is also a field of activity shaped by the
tools, artifacts, devices, and frameworks of media studies, revealing that
humanity’s relationship with the cosmos is a mediated one. We rely on
satellites in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) for communication as well as
for health and environmental monitoring and planning; on Geo Positioning
Satellite (GPS) for navigation; on space travel apparatuses for the
development of methods of storage and transportation of information,
bodies, and goods; on tele-communication devices for interplanetary
transmission; on the tools of media archeology for data sampling; on the
tools of media geology for mining and extraction; and on the tools of
information sciences for data processing and visualization. By focusing on
outer space, the ICCIT symposium invites us to rethink our relationship to
space, media, technology, land, population, property, resource extraction,
and environmental management without falling into the traps of military,
colonial, capitalist, sexist, classist, racist, and ableist logics. Space
Out! draws attention to the quickly unveiling post-planetary moment and,
for one day, encourages us to focus on interstellar media and ask: what
kinds of theories, stories, analyses, methods, techniques, and ethics are
needed to live in the cosmos?





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Wednesday March 5, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm



Centre for Culture and Technology, 39A Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto



Screening of *Space Down* a film by Dominic Gagnon



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Thursday March 6, 9:15am - 5pm



University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road



SPACE OUT! Interstellar media. ICCIT Symposium.



Lunch will be served.



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-- 

Tero Karppi, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

--Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (UTM)
--Faculty of Information (St. George)

ICCIT Associate Director, Research



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-- Disconnect <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/disconnect
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