From 10.30am tomorrow (Friday) morning at the State Library of Victoria theaterette MelbourneDAC is running a public roundtable discussion. This is to discuss some of the ideas that have arisen from the conference. The ostensible focus is more or less what should we be studying (how should we be studying)?, what should we be teaching, and what are our differences?
Something that has become very visible at this DAC are the national differences between the theoretical epistemes being used to think about new media (which is now increasingly obvious as a useless descriptor). Many of the Scandinavians seem to come from what I understand to be a very deep comparative literature tradition, the North Americans have always an empiricist undergirth, and the Australian's seem to be the ones about flow, event, and force. These differences are quite evident, and problematic, and hopefully productive.
So I've invited two Europeans, Espen Aarseth and Susana Tosca, two North American's, Mary Flanagan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and two Australian's, Andrew Murphie and Anna Munster. 10.30am, State Library of Victoria, Experimenta.
Posted by amiles at May 22, 2003 03:13 PM