CODE - A Media, Games & Art Conference will be held between 21-23 November 2012 at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Call for Papers and Creative Works - abstracts due 31 May 2011
Keynote Speakers
Jussi Parikka – Reader, Winchester School of Art
Christian McCrea – Program Director for Games, RMIT University
Anna Munster – Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
This site also provides an extended discussion of the conference background and themes and a list of readings. Details regarding venue, travel, accomodation and registration information will be added shortly.
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Speaker Bios
Jussi Parikka - media theorist and Reader at Winchester School of Art. His recent books include Digital Contagions (2007), Insect Media (2010), and What is Media Archaeology? (2012). He has co-edited such books as The Spam Book (2009) and Media Archaeology (2011). His blog/site is at http://jussiparikka.net
Christian McCrea - essayist writing on videogame materiality and popular digital arts. He has recently published work such as 'We Play in Public: The Nature and Context of Portable Gaming Systems', 'Games and the Modern University' and 'The Art History of the Present'. He is the Program Director for Games at RMIT University. His website is http://www.christianmccrea.net
Anna Munster - writer, artist and Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She has published Materializing New Media (2006) and has a new book, An Aesthesia of Networks, forthcoming with MIT (2013). She has recently written on materiality, code and art practices for Theory, Culture and Society and Inflexions. She collaborates artistically with Michele Barker using new and old media to explore and experiment with perception.
Conference Organising Committee
Esther Milne (Chair)
Akshaya Borkar
Steven Conway
Laura Crawford
Jane Felstead
Lawson Fletcher
Troy Innocent
Dean Keep
Jenny Kennedy
Ramon Lobato
Anthony McCosker
James Meese
Aneta Podkalicka
Mike Skolnik
Justin Westgate
