How and at what price did media environments become data-intensive sensing machines? Both the historical and current equipping and upgrading of devices, bodies and environments with sensors is accompanied by new practices of data processing and surveillance. What new environments have emerged from practices of (everyday, and often banal) surveillance? How do co-operation and regulation as well as forms of resistance unfold in surveilled publics and data economies? What kind of aesthetics characterizes these organized environments? We envision this lecture series (onsite and remote) as a praxeological and interdisciplinary endeavor, in which we enquire into the scales of co-operation that make media environments materialize. Thus we specifically welcome critical grounded approaches which follow capture and surveillance step by step to analyze their constitutive role for environments and their data-based sensory mediation.
The Lecture Series “Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance” is a joint Lecture Series from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) (DIGMEDIA INTER project, INTER/DFG/23/17960744/DIGMEDIA, supported by FNR and DFG).
Detailed programme and registration for online participation available on the SFB 1187 website.
Upcoming lecture:
- Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective by Matthew Crain (Miami University)
