Material Desire in the Digital Age Panel: The Poetics and Politics of Media Archeology

This symposium intends to probe more closely into how the complex processes of current modes of cultural production and reception involve the immediate and deep pasts.

Technological obsolescence, the physical archive, and the contemporary artist's reengagement with pre-digital technologies are a few of the topics that will be explored during four panel sessions, featuring contemporary artists, whose new work exploits older or analog technologies, and theorists, curators, archivists, and academics whose scholarship considers the role of the analog in the twenty-first century.

3:30-5:30 PM
Panel: The Poetics and Politics of Media Archeology
Mark Hansen, Duke University, Moderator
James Hodge, Northwestern University
Zoe Beloff, Queens College, NY
Mark Hansen, Duke University, Closing Remarks

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Futures Initiative @ the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and the Masters in Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts.