[Sehefac] Fwd: Symposium & Book Conversation with Jussi Parikka

Tue Jan 7 11:24:57 PST 2025

Dear all,

A reminder / announcement about a set of very exciting events coming up on
January 11 and on January 13.
It would be great to see you there!
Please do share with your various lists.

Best wisehs to all,
 Gloria
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Attend two events featuring media archeologist Jussi Parikka.

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EVENTS

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*Operativity and Digital Capture*
*A Public Symposium*

*Saturday, January 11, 2025*
* 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.*

Free • Registration required
Location: UCR ARTS
Culver Screening Room
3834 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501

Operativity and Digital Capture is a public symposium with media
archeologist, Dr. Jussi Parikka, the first Visiting Professor at UCR’s
Center for Ideas and Society. Dr. Parikka is the foremost authority on
media archaeology and his work is on the cutting edge of media studies,
anthropocene studies, and questions of data visualization. *At this event,
theorists, artists, scholars and practitioners from Southern California
will discuss the operations of machine vision, especially relating to
agency, culpability and connection in an image world functioning at a
remove from human engagement.* The symposium is presented as a part of Digital
Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World
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This symposium is co-presented by University of California, Riverside’s
California Museum of Photography, Center for Ideas and Society, History of
Art Department, and Media and Cultural Studies Department. Additional
support provided by the English Department at UCR. Support for the
Inaugural CIS Visiting Professor is generously funded by UCR’s Office of
the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Marko Princeva.

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*Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media*
*A Book Conversation*

*Monday, January 13, 2025*
* 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.*

Free • Open to the public
Location: UCR, CHASS Interdisciplinary 111
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*What can a history of plant imaging tell us about the aesthetics and
infrastructures of the Anthropocene?*

Dr. Jussi Parikka (Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhaus University,
Denmark) will be in conversation with Dr. Gloria Chan Sook Kim (Media and
Cultural Studies, UCR) about Dr. Parikka's book, *Living Surfaces: Images,
Plants, and Environments of Media* (co-authored with Abelardo Gil-Fournier).

Dr. Parikka is the foremost authority on media archaeology and his work is
on the cutting edge of media studies, anthropocene studies, and questions
of data visualization. His most recently has published text *Living
Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media *(The MIT
Press) examines a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments
with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant
physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of
calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces.

Dr. Kim, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Media & Cultural Studies at
UCR, is the author of the groundbreaking book, *Microbial Resolution:
Visualization and Security in the War Against Emerging Microbes* (U
Minnesota Press, 2024).

Copies of *Living Surfaces* will be available for sale and signing at the
event.

Sponsored by the Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society
and the English Department at University of California, Riverside.

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EXHIBITION

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*Digital Capture*
*Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World*

*September 21, 2024 - February 2, 2025*

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*Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World** is
an ambitious exhibition spanning six decades (1962–2020s) that investigates
the history and creative uses of digital imaging technology, from the
genesis of digital imaging in Southern California research laboratories
during the Cold War and Space Race of the 1960s, to the ubiquity of digital
media in our contemporary world.* The exhibition and accompanying digital
publication narrate the ideological shifts that occurred as digital
technologies were adopted for artistic ends. Conceptually organized into
themes exploring issues of agency, representation, culpability, and
connection, *Digital Capture* features over 40 artists working across
several technological, computing, and imaging media.

*Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World**
is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST
ART.*

*Image: *micha cárdenas, Sin Sol, (screenshot of Augmented Reality app),
2020. Courtesy of micha cárdenas and the Critical Realities Studio

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*WHAT IS PST ART?*
Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART, returns in September
2024 with more than *70 exhibitions from museums and other institutions
across the region*, all exploring the intersections of art and science,
both past and present. Dozens of cultural, scientific, and community
organizations will join the latest edition, *PST ART: Art & Science Collide*,
with exhibitions on subjects ranging from ancient cosmologies to Indigenous
sci-fi, and from environmental justice to artificial intelligence. Art &
Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, create indelible
experiences for the public, and generate new ways of understanding our
complex world. *PST ART is presented by Getty*. For more information about
PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.
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*PUBLICATION*
*Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World *

The exhibition is accompanied by a *free, downloadable publication* of the
same name. Designed by HvADesign, this heavily-illustrated publication
features artist plates, original essays by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay
Maslov, April Baca, and Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, and a detailed timeline
of the history of digital imaging since 1906.

*A limited-edition print copy of the book is available for $30 at UCR ARTS.*

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Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Media and Culture
Department of Media and Culture
CHASS South Building, INTS 3137
University of California-Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521

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