A couple of months ago I noticed this intersesting event, The Computational Turn, which will be held at Swansea University on 9 March 2010. The conference promises a slightly unconventional take on the ‘arts and humanities’, considering the ways in which digital or computation-based technologies and techniques are fundamentally transforming the means and forms through this broad field approaches its subject (and object) matter. Given that the conference’s two rather excellent keynotes are N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich, I would suspect two prominent aspects of that ‘matter’ will be literature and the visual arts. For those of you, who, quite unlike me, are actually thinking of putting together a position paper in for the conference, note that the final deadline is 10 February 2010.
[…] Recently I wrote about an enticing forthcoming conference at Swansea University on The Computational Turn, which, alas, I was unable to attend. Well, good news has arrived for us all in London, and indeed, the South East of England. The two keynotes of that conference – N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich – have been grabbed on their way to Swansea by the Centre for Media and Culture Research at London South Bank University to give a double-bill seminar. The event takes place on Monday, 8 March 2010 at 1pm in Lecture Theatre 4, K2 Building, Keyworth Street, London SE1. It’s an open event, but places are limited, so you need to reserve your place by emailing Anna Reading, the Head of the Centre for Media and Culture Research, at readinam@lsbu.ac.uk […]