Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers

After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, held at Birkbeck on 17 June 2013. The two keynote symposiums kicked off the intense one-day event. The first group of speakers include Graham Harman, Lisa Parks and Paddy Scannell and the second group include Shaun Moores, Nick Couldry and David Berry. Not only are each speakers’ contributions interesting, but so too were the debates and discussions which followed (between the speakers and audience). Looking back, it certainly was a unique cross-section of phenomenological perspectives as they relate or might relate to thinking about media, technology and communication.

You might find that, initially, the microphone quality is less-than-ideal. But it’s just a technical glitch in sound quality which improves considerably about 7 minutes into the video clip.

I’d of course encourage you to view the entire range of the debates, but naturally many will want to advance to a particular speaker or stage of the discussion. You may do so using the links below:

Conference Introduction

McLuhan and phenomenology
Graham Harman, American University of Cairo

Signal territories: broadcast infrastructure, Google Earth, and phenomenology
Lisa Parks, University of California Santa Barbara

To the things themselves: thoughts on the phenomenology of media
Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan

Keynote Symposium 1 discussion

Digital orientations: reconceptualising everyday media use, beginning with movements of the hands and fingers?
Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland

Phenomenology and critique: why we need a phenomenology of the digital world
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London

Phenomenological approaches to the computal: some reflections on computation
David Berry, Swansea University

Keynote Symposium 2 discussion