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La thématique des rencontres du labo cette année: les collections
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Paperology symposium, 6-7/05/2022

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Dumpster Trekking : Groupe de lecture 2021-22

🚮🟤🦡 Dumpster trekking : balade dans les matérialités médiatiques et les imaginaires sociotrashiques des vidanges 🦡🟤 🚮 L’idée de cette série est de tracer ensemble une carte mentale des vies, morts et limbes du dumpster. Pour aller à la rencontre de cette entité vidange, nous proposons une série de trekkings suivant les traces laissées par ses émanations, matérialités et imaginaires. À chaque séance nous emprunterons les sentiers et sillons dessinés par des axes et thèmes cardinaux. Pour amorcer l’exploration sociotrashique, nous proposons une première session de dump balades conjurant, ou invoquant, aléatoirement les ruptures métaboliques, l’Anthropocène, la consommation mortifère, la pollution industrielle, les fantasmes d’homéostasie et de (sur)vie capsulaire, la nature fétichisée, les cycles de vie des artefacts et leur potentielle résurrection, la hantise des déchets et les géographies...
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Space Farming : Groupe de lecture 2020-2021

Organisé par les doctorant.e.s : Hubert Alain, Daniel Blémur et Albertine Thunier
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Paperology: A Reading and Activity Group on Knowing and Being with Paper

What exactly is paper? What experiences are unique to paper? In what ways is paper valuable? Why paper now? Is paper still a relevant technology? How has paper in its various permutations given rise to specific things, systems, and cultures, including certain formats and genres (e.g. the pocket book, the file, the greetings card), artefacts (e.g. the rolodex, the paper shredder), and activities (e.g. paperwork, burning, scrapbooking, marbling)?
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Conférence de Sara Swain: Dove Tails & Feral Ecologies

In 1903, German apothecary Julius Neubronner fitted homing pigeons with tiny dual-lensed pneumatic cameras in order to produce unmanned aerial images. I argue that Neubronner’s experiment is suggestive of a much more substantial dovetailing of birds with the modern project of overcoming distance and contend that the field of media studies has overlooked the significance of Neubronner’s work. Either treated as an amusing one-off or an unwitting precursor to drone photography, this enterprise remains outside of and separate from media history. I wager that this is because the nature-culture divide continues to persist in the field, making it ill-equipped to properly address relationships between animals and media. I turn to the concept of “feral ecologies,” which I have developed in order to mitigate this stubborn...
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Groupe de lecture – hiver 2020

This year we started doing some readings as a lab as a way to focus our monthly meetings...
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Les cahiers du labo, no 1.

Expérimentant avec l’indie publishing et de nouvelles formes d’écriture, les membres d’Artefact Lab ont co-produit cet été la première publication du labo. Il y a en tout 8 exemplaires, tous uniques (puisque fait à la main). Nous y avons consacré la journée du 13 août avec beaucoup de plaisir et d’essais et erreurs !
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Making Media Theory – A Colloquium

A conference organized by lab co-director Ghislain Thibault, along with Mark Hayward (York University, Toronto) as part of the “Recovering Mechanology” project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. What is the role of experimentation in the history of media studies? The creation and modification of things, instruments, devices, machines or media have often played a crucial role in the production and dissemination of media theory. The films and installations of John Akomfrah, Kittler’s modular synthesizer or the ongoing dialogue between media studies and design practice in the work of such scholars as Jacqueline Tyrwhitt are but a few examples of this tradition. Yet, these media experiments are often perceived as being of secondary importance – derivative, anecdotal or even trivial – compared to the significance and visibility granted to more traditional modes...
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