“Biomedia in the Time of Animation,” special issue of Postmedieval:  a journal of medieval cultural studies  (When Did We Become Post/human?) eds. Eileen Joy and Craig Dionne 1.1  2010 (Palgrave-Macmillan).

"Re-Moving Flat Ontologies: Mobile Locative Tagging and Ars Combinatoria in the Hollins Community Project," Digital Arts and Culture 2009. After Media: Embodiment and Context, eds. Simon Penny and Ward Smith. University of California, 2009.

 DAC: Digital Arts Conference, 12 Dec -15 2009, University of California, Irvine

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TEXTURES

Riga/Liepaja (Latvia)

DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: August, 09  

Through the term, 'textures,' we aim to bring together transitional figures of thought in many fields:

• in literary criticism: the movement from the material signifier to meaning, affect, and communication;
• in the arts: the well-known 'resistance in the materials';
• in cognitive science: the transition from the neuronal to the mental;
• in a textile: the construction of cloth and the surfacing of a pattern from the interwoven material threaded lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft);
• in painting: the emergence of a whole through the patterning of smaller elements; the presentation of an 'all over' composition in a series of canvases;
• in sound art: the blending of running water or traffic noise into a continuous sonic structure;
• with regard to the body: the perpetual becoming-other of an allegedly fixed and bordered identity;
• the 'fold' in Deleuze; the 'tissue of quotations' in Barthes, the 'weave' in Derrida, the feminist spider's embodied writing of gendered subjectivity, and other materialist readings of familiar poststructuralist conceits;
• etc. (please send us your ideas)

Sara Ahmed