Lecture: Marc Tuters - From Mannerist Situationism to Situated Media

Veranstaltung des Forschungsinstituts für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (figs)  der Universität Siegen in Kooperation mit dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Locating Media

  Gastvortrag in englischer Sprache von Marc Tuters (Siegen/Amsterdam)

  am 22. Januar 2013 um 10 Uhr im Artur-Woll-Haus, Universität Siegen, Raum AE-A 102 

 

A decade ago, the convergence of GPS with mobile telephony first allowed media artists to map the city’s psychogeography. With such technology having now become widespread, the artistic novelty of this approach has somewhat diminished. While the field of ‘locative media’ has been and continues to be productive of both work and of critique, the talk questions some of its conceptual commitments and critical interpretations. As the technological assemblages upon which locative media are based are themselves constantly shifting, the talk considers adapting conceptual approaches accordingly. To this end, an argument is put forth for expanding the concept of locative media, built upon Bruno Latour’s recent engagement with new media and design practices which he characterizes in terms of the act of assembling rather than debunking. Drawing further on actor-network theory, an alternative interpretation of the metaphor of cognitive mapping is developed in which a core concept of locativity, that of proximity, is redefined in terms of tracing the connections of networked objects, this as opposed to the often repeated association of locative media with Situationist psychogeography. An assembly of practices are examined which trace logistics and give voice to multiple nonhuman ontologies.

 

Marc Tuters has worked as a media arts researcher at Concordia University, the Annenberg Centre, the University

of Southern California, National University of Singapore, Keio University, and the University of Amsterdam.

He is best known for his work in locative media, a field which he is credited as having “invented”. Currently he is Diesterweg-Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (figs) at the University of Siegen.

 

Kontakt
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Locating Media
Universität Siegen, Philosophische Fakultät - Medienwissenschaft
Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang 50, 57076 Siegen
Tel: +49 271 740-4518
E-Mail: info@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de
http://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/