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Digital Studies Group

The Digital Studies Group (DSG) brings together CUNY faculty members, researchers, and doctoral students interested in a broad range of intellectual, cultural, economic, legal, and pedagogical issues related to the growing impact of digital media on the ways we read, think, teach, learn and entertain ourselves in the United States and across the globe. Beginning in fall 2009, the seminar will meet periodically at The CUNY Graduate Center to hear presentations of ongoing digital media research work, to discuss traditional and online texts on digital media issues, and to explore new digital media approaches to cultural production and to questions of teaching and learning.

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Pixelated Politics: Still and Moving Images in the Digital Age (4/9, Segal Theatre)

  • Posted by Amy Herzog on April 3, 2013 at 4:42 pm

    Tuesday, April 9th, Segal Theatre, 6:30PM

    “The contemporary world is hypervisual,” says media theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff. Television, computers, iPads, the Internet, and cell phones are associated with the increased distribution and reception of still and moving images. The global rise of cell phones in particular has enabled the proliferation of what filmmaker Hito Steyerl calls “poor images”—low-resolution film footage made all the more popular by platforms such as YouTube. This panel invites media scholars, curators, and artists to discuss how this endless stream of degraded, pixelated images, videos, and films has significantly altered the way we experience and understand our contemporary politicized world.

    Participants include: Miriam Ghani, artist and writer; Lev Manovich, The Graduate Center; Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University; Christiane Paul, The New School, and New Media Arts at The Whitney Museum of American Art; McKenzie Wark, The New School. Organized and moderated by Natalie Musteata, Art History, The Graduate Center.

    Cosponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program, the PhD Program in Art History and The Center for the Humanities

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