The End of Man: Species Vulnerability in the Anthropocene | Joanna Zylinska MedeaTV 2018-08-17 | In this Medea Talks from 14 December 2017, Joanna Zylinska discusses the notion of the Anthropocene, and the “end of man” prophecy associated with it – especially as it relates to the gendering of the Anthropocene story. The talk includes a screening of her short photo-film, Exit Man (2017), which attempts to outline a “feminist counter-apocalypse.” Joanna Zylinska is an artist, curator and professor of new media at Goldsmiths, University of London. http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-the-end-of-man-species-vulnerability-in-the-anthropocene/
Too Cute to Puke 7th Anniversary Party MedeaTV 2023-01-03 | Recording of club night in Malmö, Sweden, November 2017, featuring clubgoers and DJs. Please click on the CC button for captions!
Beyond Machine Vision: How to Build a Non-Trivial Perception Machine | Joanna Zylinska MedeaTV 2020-11-23 | Keynote given by Professor Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths University, UK) at the Artificial Creativity conference, Malmö University, Sweden, 19–20 November 2020. https://mau.se/en/research/research-platforms/medea/conference-artificial-creativity/
Fatal Error: Artificial Creative Intelligence (ACI) | Mark Amerika MedeaTV 2020-11-19 | Keynote/performance given by Professor Mark Amerika (University of Colorado, US) at the Artificial Creativity conference, Malmö University, Sweden, 19–20 November 2020. https://mau.se/en/research/research-platforms/medea/conference-artificial-creativity/
Robots versus Machines | Andreas Broeckmann | Artificial Creativity conference MedeaTV 2020-11-19 | Keynote given by Dr. habil. Andreas Broeckmann (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany) at the Artificial Creativity conference, Malmö University, Sweden, 19–20 November 2020. https://mau.se/en/research/research-platforms/medea/conference-artificial-creativity/
Existential media studies | Amanda Lagerkvist | Medea Talks MedeaTV 2020-09-14 | "Existential media studies: Towards ‘co-existers’ in shared terrains of digital-human vulnerability and automation". Talk given at Malmö University on 7 October 2019.
Respecognize: Negotiating Ethnic Notions, Cultural Identity, and Unconscious Bias | Medea Talks MedeaTV 2019-12-17 | Dance educator Moncell Durden talks about cultural appropriation, identity and heritage. Learn more: https://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-moncell-durden/
Screening the Nordic City: The Politics of Place & Space in Contemporary Crime Series | Medea Talks MedeaTV 2019-12-13 | Professor Robert A. Saunders discusses how crime dramas like Bron/Broen shape international perspectives of the Nordic countries. Learn more: https://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-robert-saunders/
Twenty Years Of Radical Open Access – What’s Next? | Gary Hall | Medea Talks MedeaTV 2019-11-27 | Professor of Media Gary Hall discusses several grassroots, scholar-led open access projects and the politics underpinning these initiatives. See also https://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-gary-hall/
Music, Sound, Art and the Commodification of Magic | Nathan Larson MedeaTV 2019-05-13 | Medea Talks from May 7 with musician, film score composer and author Nathan Larson.
Who’s Reporting Africa Now? | Kate Wright MedeaTV 2019-04-23 | Medea Talks from April 12 with Kate Wright, author of Who's Reporting Africa Now? (Peter Lang, 2018) and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh.In this lecture, Wright talks about the relationship between NGOs and traditional news media. Which stories are told about Africa, and by whom?
Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design | Daniela Rosner MedeaTV 2019-04-04 | Medea Talks with Daniela Rosner, author of Critical Fabulations (MIT Press 2018) and assistant professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. In this talk, Rosner reminds us that the worlds of handwork and computing – or weaving and space travel – are not as separate as we might imagine them to be. Learn more: https://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-daniela-rosner/
Communication, Narratives and Inventiveness by Afro-Brazilian women | Silvana Bahia MedeaTV 2019-04-03 | Silvana Bahia talks about alternative media and community-based initiatives, especially in regards to Afro-Brazilian women developing technology. Learn more: https://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-silvana-bahia/
Perspectives and Collective Future-Making | Nick Montfort MedeaTV 2019-01-07 | Medea Talks with Nick Montfort, poet and professor of digital media at MIT. He argues for the importance of the act of future-making, and he will discuss the importance of the perspective we take when so doing. His book ,The Future, was recently published by The MIT Press. Learn more about this lecture: http://medea.mah.se/event/nick-montfort-professor-of-digital-media-mit-on-future-making/
Designers Against Animal Oppression | Medea Vox (academic podcast) MedeaTV 2018-12-06 | New episode of podcast Medea Vox, https://medea.mah.se/2018/12/vox-anti-speciesism/"Eating animals is outdated. In this episode, designers and PhD students Michelle Westerlaken and Erik Sandelin discuss how to move towards a society that does not treat other animals as lesser beings. Underlying the discussion is the notion of speciesism, which is the oppression or exploitation of animals on the grounds of belonging to another species – similar to racism and sexism."
(2/3) Design, Democracy and Participation: Exploring the Scandinavian Participatory Design Tradition MedeaTV 2018-09-14 | For all three videos and context, see medium.com/@medea/design-democracy-and-participation-exploring-the-scandinavian-participatory-design-tradition-67dda92ba675Part 2:1first design turn, oran accidental designerwork oriented design (1980s)Part 2:2second collective turncooperative design of computer systemscritical computing (1990s)A lecture with Pelle Ehn, professor emeritus, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
(3/3) Design, Democracy and Participation: Exploring the Scandinavian Participatory Design Tradition MedeaTV 2018-09-14 | For all three videos and context, see medium.com/@medea/design-democracy-and-participation-exploring-the-scandinavian-participatory-design-tradition-67dda92ba675Part 3:1second design turn, ornot quite a creative class heroa digital bauhaus (2000s)Part 3:2third collective turn, ormarginal and cosmopolitical design collectivespublics in the making (2010s)A lecture with Pelle Ehn, professor emeritus, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
(1/3) Design, Democracy and Participation: Exploring the Scandinavian Participatory Design Tradition MedeaTV 2018-09-14 | For all three videos and context, see medium.com/@medea/design-democracy-and-participation-exploring-the-scandinavian-participatory-design-tradition-67dda92ba675Part 1:1prologue: 1918–1968we are all Bauhaus studentsPart 1:2first collective turn, ora not quite revolutionary beginningdemocracy at work (1970s)A lecture with Pelle Ehn, professor emeritus, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
Exploring the Active and Interventionist Humanities MedeaTV 2018-05-02 | Medea Talk from December 7th 2017 with Patrik Svensson, Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at UCLA, and former Director of HUMlab at Umeå University. Patrik Svensson will discuss the role of the humanities in terms of its active and interventionist engagement within the university and in relation to the outside world.Link to Angela Davis: How Does Change Happen?youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6RHtEbiOA
Framing Wonder: A Mission for Design MedeaTV 2017-12-05 | Medea Talk with Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex (UK). Ann Light discusses how people “make futures” and what role design may have in this.
Whats the point of political art in the 21st century? | Harry Giles | Medea Talks MedeaTV 2017-04-10 | http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-harry-giles/
Where is ‘the Human’ in Digital Health Technology? | Kirsten Ostherr MedeaTV 2017-03-20 | Like many fields, medicine is increasingly driven by big data, algorithms, simulations, and mobile technologies that promise personalization, efficiency, and scalability. Many doctors and patients are left wondering how the human experience of health and disease fits into this highly technological world. This talk will describe how the collaborative participatory design practices at the Medical Futures Lab explore and intervene at the intersection of human and technological medicine.http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-kirsten-ostherr/
Archival Re-enactments: Joan Laage MedeaTV 2016-11-14 | Joan Laage in Kogut Butoh / Earth TomesSound by Lee Berwick, video by Jacek SmolickiArchival Re-enactments. Symposium organized by Living Archives Research Project, 22-23 March 2016, Inter Arts Center, Malmö.
Archival Re-enactments: Luanda Carneiro Jacoel MedeaTV 2016-11-10 | Luanda Carneiro Jacoel in a performance 'Kalunga', Music: Åsmund Kaupang,Archival Re-enactments. Symposium organized by Living Archives Research Project, 22-23 March 2016, Inter Arts Center, Malmö.
EU Data Protection Policy in the Digital Environment | Marju Lauristin MedeaTV 2016-10-03 | What will we mean by privacy in the future?Medea Talks with Marju Lauristin, Member of the European Parliament and professor emerita at Tartu University.In this talk, Marju Lauristin will open the philosophical underpinnings of the EU data protection regulation. What is “private” data? And how do you balance individual data protection with public and commercial interests?http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-marju-lauristin/
Executions: Introduction to event and keynote speakers MedeaTV 2016-05-16 | http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-snelting-schuppli/
Computing the Law: Searching for Justice—Susan Schuppli MedeaTV 2016-05-16 | Is there a way in which the law might be understood as a computational, machine-like set of operations and protocols? Can the search for truth as an experimental form emerge out of an algorithmic-like set of coding practices—or does the realm of ethics remain forever incomputable?Susan Schuppli (Goldsmiths University) will consider these questions by drawing on a comparison between two specific and contrasting examples of political forums in which the question of justice is at the fore: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As seen in examples such as remote-controlled drone warfare and decisions to execute that are arrived at through data-aggregation, algorithms are not simply re-ordering the fundamental principles that govern our lives, but are also being tasked with providing alternate ethical arrangements derived out of new modes of reasoning that are increasingly computational. These are some of the questions that this talk aims to raise and which will be issues for further discussion in the open workshop on the second day.http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-snelting-schuppli/
Modifying the Universal—Femke Snelting MedeaTV 2016-05-16 | Do you remember when emoji characters were always yellow? Such was the situation until only a year ago. In 2014, after a public outcry against the perceived lack of diversity, the Unicode Consortium added five “Skin tone modifiers” to their set of emojis and considered the issue resolved.Starting from the emoji standards debate, Femke Snelting (Constant)—in collaboration with Peggy Pierrot and Roel Roscam Abbing—will discuss how and why mainstream communication infrastructures promote universalist values and at the same time provide means for separating users along fault lines of race, gender and age. In considering what kind of interventions might be carried out in relation to this, the talk will be followed on the second day of the Executions event with a hands-on workshop in which participants will be able to experiment with the customization mechanisms that are already implemented in Unicode, seeing how one can subvert the universal from the inside and at the level of the code itself. As a possible outcome of the workshop participants could formulate a comment to the current proposal for new emoji mechanisms.http://medea.mah.se/event/medea-talks-snelting-schuppli/
Performing Encryption—Susan Kozel MedeaTV 2016-05-12 | "Performing Encryption: A somatic approach to the practices and urgencies of contemporary archiving" was presented by Susan Kozel at the Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry, UK, in July 2015. http://livingarchives.mah.se/
Bats of the Republic: The Making of an Illuminated Novel—Zach Dodson MedeaTV 2016-05-11 | Medea Talks on April 19 with author, book designer and professor Zachary Thomas Dodson.What is the future of the book and what would it be like to discover a cave full of bats? Would we recognize anything of ourselves in our ancestors and should Texas be its own country?These important questions and many others will be deftly evaded by Zachary Thomas Dodson during his recounting of the seven-year writing, design and production process that resulted in his illuminated novel, Bats of the Republic.http://medea.mah.se/event/invitation-medea-talks-zachary-thomas-dodson/
Why reading books is (not) important—Medea Vox (podcast trailer) MedeaTV 2016-03-17 | http://medea.mah.se/vox/ What is reading? Why is it relevant in today’s society? And, are Swedish teenagers really as bad at reading as it seems?Host is Pille Pruulman-Vengerfeldt, associate professor in media and communication studies at Malmö University. Guests are Alexandra Borg from Uppsala University who studies reading in the digital age, and Maria Engberg from Malmö University who has previously studied digital literature and is currently active in the media studies field.
Drifting by Intention: Design Research from the Inside—Peter Gall Krogh MedeaTV 2016-01-18 | In motor racing, ’drifting’ is about making a controlled skid when taking bends at high speeds. It requires instinct and a great deal of practice.On January 14, design professor Peter Gall Krogh gave a Medea Talk on drifting as a key concept in the research-through-design field. What can we learn from the way design researchers drift?http://medea.mah.se/event/invitation-medea-talks-peter-gall-krogh/
World Brain with Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon (Medea Talks) MedeaTV 2015-12-11 | http://medea.mah.se/event/world-brain/World Brain explores a future where we connect to the Internet through neurons in our brains. A future where knowledge comes to us through universal connectivity. A future where we connect not just to each other but to trees and dogs. A future where each cell of your body is connected to each grain of sand in the world.
Re-enactment, Archival Performances - Living Archives Research Project, AHA Festival MedeaTV 2015-12-08 | Working with the photograph projected onto bodies, living bodies, creates on the one hand a three-dimensional space that is eerily in tune with the photographic world only captured in 2D. A milk pail regains a rotund shape, hand feel less than flat lying against folds. Faces however are harder to capture and what happened instead was an intricate doubling, overlaying and erasure—by turns—of the photographed face with the projected-onto-lit-up face. When Temi bent down slightly, the black face of the woman with the bottles appeared clearly, staring back at me from the canvas of skin, her black skin coming back more acutely. This was a moment of realization that we were indeed, at that point, engaging in re-enactment. But what kind of reenactment? What kind of archive were we creating as pictures and videos were taken of our process?
Constrained Witnessing - Living Archives Research Project, AHA Festival MedeaTV 2015-12-08 | A microphone witnessing our 24 hour performance was activated to capture a minute of sound,every hour on the hour.Like a geological stratum, each minute forms a layer, a sediment of the particular moment.The past minute does not fade out completely. Instead, while being looped it remains active.It constitutes a background for the minute to come, partly determining the way that we are to experience it. Over time the recorded traces accumulate into an ever thicker texture, an idiosyncratic assemblage in which the fluid and incidental meet the constrained and structured...
Mission Misplaced Memory – Gaylene Gould and Gary Stewart MedeaTV 2015-12-02 | http://medea.mah.se/event/invitation-medea-talks-gould-stewart/
Du sköna nya arbetsplats – paneldebatt MedeaTV 2015-11-25 | http://medea.mah.se/event/debatt-farocki-en-ny-produkt/
Gravity and Its Sisters: Re-enacting the Memory of Ghosts & Astronauts MedeaTV 2015-11-19 | For the Astronauts and Avatars panel, Towards a Science of Consciousness, University of Helsinki, June, 2015.Susan Kozel, the Living Archives research project, Malmö University, Sweden.http://livingarchives.mah.se/
Mary Brydon-Miller: Then Let Us All Be Monsters ... MedeaTV 2015-11-12 | Mary Brydon-Miller—Then Let Us All Be Monsters: Tackling Tough Issues Through Action Researchhttp://medea.mah.se/event/invitation-medea-talks-mary-brydon-miller/
Performing Encryption MedeaTV 2015-11-04 | http://livingarchives.mah.se/2015/05/invitation-performing-encryption-improvisational-workshop/
Connectivity Lab Live 2012 (long version) MedeaTV 2015-10-08 | http://medea.mah.se/2012/10/connectivity-lab-live/
Connectivity Lab Live 2012 (short version) MedeaTV 2015-10-08 | http://medea.mah.se/2012/10/connectivity-lab-live/
Ezio Manzini: Design, When Everybody Designs MedeaTV 2015-09-17 | We live in a world where everybody designs: individuals, communities and companies, even cities and entire regions. In his Medea Talk on September 10, Ezio Manzini discussed how amateurs and professionals collaborate in creating social innovations that have the potential to make our societies more resilient and sustainable.http://medea.mah.se/event/invitation-medea-talks-ezio-manzini/
Making Archives Unreliable – Nikita Mazurov MedeaTV 2015-09-10 | Nikita Mazurov is Post-doc in the Living Archives project at Malmö University, Sweden.
