︎︎ Science and Technology, Memory Bank
The Science and Technology stream focuses on posthuman conceptualisations of memory. In particular, the workshops and presentations at the conference will explore the use of mnemonic technologies, digital archives and more than human memory. This stream of Memory 2021 looks to the convergence between nonhuman and human histories of remembrance, forgetting and erasure that go unrecognised by dominant historical accounts.
Image ^^^ Corinna Berndt, detail from “All My Chameleon Signals”, interactive digital work of 3D-scanned personal items, 2019.
Science and Technology Convenors
- Jessica Laraine Williams
- Corinna Berndt
Science and Technology Contributors
- Bobby Nicholls
- Max Piantoni
- Dr Chris Barker
- Jianni Tien
- Dr Susanne Pratt
- Dr Zoë Sadokierski
- Eloise Florence
- Jessica Laraine Williams
- Corinna Berndt
- Suzanne Fraser
- Alison Kennedy
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Natasha Narain
Panels, Talks, Workshops
Workshop:
Let’s Object Salon
Thursday 2 September, 3-5pm
Facilitators: Dr Susanne Pratt (UTS, Transdisciplinary School), Jianni Tien (UTS, School of Communication), Jessica Laraine Williams (VCA, School of Art); Corinna Berndt (VCA, School of Art); Eloise Florence (RMIT, School of Communication); Zoë Sadokierski (UTS, School of Design).
Panel #1:
Digital Memories and Posthuman Encounters
Friday 3 September, 11.30am - 1pm
Chaired by Dr Suzie Fraser
- Narain: (Producer: Kavita Gonsalves. Artists: Agapetos Fa'alaeva and Natasha Narain)
- Alison Kennedy
- Jen Valender
Song and Cuisine as Mnemonic Technologies Friday 3 September, 2-3.30pmChaired by Dr Danny Butt
Watch
Yalinguth Concept Film
Yalinguth is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history of Gertrude St, Fitzroy (Ngár-go) as told by notable Elders and artists. Yalinguth means “yesterday” in the Woi Wurrung language, the new augmented app is designed to connect past accounts from our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, to provide today’s generation insight and context of this popular Melbourne meeting place.>>> yalinguth.com.au
Read
- This is not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept, Susan Leigh Star (2010) ︎︎︎DOWNLOAD PDF
- Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39, Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer (1989) >>> lchc.ucsd.edu
- The Future is Now: Diegetic Prototypes and the Role of Popular Films in Generating Real-world Technological Development, David Kirby (2009) >>> journals.sagepub.com
- Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism, Chris Riedy (2020) >>> sciencedirect.com
Currents is a collaboration between the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) at the University of Melbourne and the School of Design, University of Western Australia, and is funded through the Schenberg International Arts Collaboration Program. The Advisory Board and Editorial Committee are comprised of staff and graduate students from across the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia.
Currents acknowledges the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which this journal is produced—the Boonwurung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation and Whadjuk people. We pay our respects to land, ancestors and Elders, and know that education involves working with their guidance to improve the lives of all.
ISSN 2652-8207
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Currents acknowledges the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which this journal is produced—the Boonwurung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation and Whadjuk people. We pay our respects to land, ancestors and Elders, and know that education involves working with their guidance to improve the lives of all.
ISSN 2652-8207
