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SUMMARY:Workshop: Hardware\, Everywhere. An Invitation to a New Field of Media Materialism
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Required – Limited Seats \nThe workshop focuses a fundamental shift towards active matter\, which will be presented as an invitation into a new field of media research. This approach combines critical historical conceptual analysis\, experimental practice and designerly projecting for rethinking the relationship between the material and the symbolic. \nWe will focus on the dichotomy of passive materials and (symbolic) activity\, which is still an unquestioned strategy and foundation of our modern culture. The destructive effects on nature of this strategy of control and domination are becoming increasingly evident. Since the 19th Century modern technology has been based on passive materials such as iron as basic ‘hardware’ and has excluded the materials’ own activity as failure or defect. Also\, the digital revolution and its corresponding hardware rely on neutral material carriers for performing externally programmed activity. \nIn contrast to this implementation of immaterial symbolic or digital operations we will rely on a new relationship between material and information\, where materials are no longer seen as passive but as intrinsically active. The principle of active matter is particularly evident in the field of bio-materials: This new kind of hardware can be understood as analogically coded matter (see: Active Materials\, 2022) and as such it incorporates all immaterial qualities of symbolic-geometric and informational operations. Elaborating this new vision about active materials is directed towards the re-inventing of the analog in the digital age as a new field of media materialism. \nWorkshop texts can be found in department listing. \nSponsored by the German Department. Co-Sponsored by: Department of Art & Archaeology\, Center for Collaborative History\, Program in Media + Modernity\, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, Program in European Cultural Studies\, Program in Medieval Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hardware-everywhere-an-invitation-to-a-new-field-of-media-materialism/
LOCATION:Julis Romo Rabinowitz – 102 Conference Room C\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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