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Sean
Cubitt (University of Melbourne) will present a paper titled <b>Picturing
Light</b> in the
seminar series of the Communications and Media Studies section at
Monash University. The <span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US">seminar
will take place on March 17, in the English Library
(Menzies Building, Room number W710), from 3 to 4.30 pm.<br>
<br>
Abstract: </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just as
street lighting does more than replace
moonlight, light technologies of the digital era do more than remediate
light
techniques form the past. This seminar presents some preliminary
findings from
a research project on the affordances and genealogies of digital light.
The
centre of the presentation will be the depiction of light in a variety
of
different media in relation to how it is represented in both digital
artefacts
and software interfaces. A critical question: are light techniques and
technologies becoming normative in the 21st century, and do such norms
operate
differently to their operation in previous epochs?</span><br>
<br>
Everyone welcome!<br>
<br>
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Communications and Media Studies
Building 11
Monash University
Clayton, Vic, 3800
Australia
Tel: +61 3 9905 2442
Fax: + 61 3 9905 2135
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