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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication\nStudies welcom
 es Sarah Kember\, Reader in New\nTechnologies of Communications\, Departme
 nt of Media and\nCommunications at Goldsmith’s College\, University of Lon
 don\, to\nspeak at our annual lecture series (follow this link for a compl
 ete list of this year's speakers).\nTitle: 'Intelligent Mediation'\nAbstra
 ct: Homes\, like bodies\, have always\nfunctioned as media and as modes of
  communication and\nself-expression. They foreground location and identity
  as a\ncounterforce to dislocation and differentiation. In this talk\, I\n
 will show how they are now the locus of industry-led claims\nconcerning th
 e emergence of Ambient Intelligence\; a branding and\nextension of the ubi
 quitous computing project that centres on the\nreplacement of computers wi
 th computing\, and the distribution of\napparently more user-friendly netw
 orked intelligence among the\neveryday objects of the domestic environment
 . The futuristic vision\nof the smart home seems to 'fulfil a long standin
 g dream of\nartefacts that know us' (Suchman)\, but intelligent mediation 
 in\nthis context is not\, as we might hope or imagine\, about celebrating
 \nhybrid\, affective\, intimate human-machine relationality. It is\, I\nwi
 ll suggest\, a means of repurposing the 'closed-world' (Edwards)\nlogic of
  Artificial Intelligence\, while perpetuating the production\nof 'homo oec
 onomicus' (Brown) or the subject of neoliberalism\nthrough the integration
  of systems of surveillance and marketing.\nAs well as seeking to demystif
 y the objects and rhetorics of\nAmbient Intelligence\, I will open out the
  question of methodology\,\nand experiment with modes of critique by ackno
 wledging the\nperformative role of science fiction in the co-constitution 
 of the\ntechnosciences.\nBiography: Sarah Kember’s research focuses on\ndi
 gital media\, questions of mediation and feminist science and\ntechnology 
 studies. She is currently investigating the\npossibilities of life after n
 ew media (studies)\, and has engaged in\ndebates on artificial life and ot
 her aspects of the convergence\nbetween biology and computer science. She 
 also works on imaging\ntechnologies and the relationship between photograp
 hy and the\ndigital and is developing an innovative approach to the questi
 on of\nremediation and the ‘fusion’ of science and literary fiction. Sarah
 \nis working on a novel entitled The Optical Effects of Lightning. It\nis 
 a story presented as a case file on a missing person\, but\ncombines three
  main genres: detective\, science fiction and gothic.\nConceptually\, the 
 novel attempts to bring science and literary\nfiction into a closer\, more
  remediating relationship. This is done\npartly through the agency of a ph
 otograph (censored) which shows a\nman running on a beach as he is struck 
 by lightning. While working\non the submission of this manuscript with Lae
 titia Rutherford (at\nMulcahy Conway Associates Ltd.)\, Sarah has begun wo
 rk on her next\nnovel. This includes a first person account of the recent 
 discovery\nof life on Mars.\n\nSarah is also working with Joanna Zylinska 
 on a book based on their\nMA Digital Media: Technology and Cultural Form a
 nd the optional\ncourse entitled After New Media. This explores the concep
 t of\nmediation through a range of media events including the Large\nHadro
 n Collider Project\, the credit crunch and the world's first\nface transpl
 ant. The book is provisionally entitled Life After New\nMedia.\n
DTSTART:20110127T223000Z
DTEND:20110127T223000Z
LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series: Sarah Kember 'Intelligent Mediation'
URL:/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-sarah-kember-i
 ntelligent-mediation-170113
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