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Operational Images symposium the the RPI

DARC director Jussi Parikka is the keynote speaker at a symposium at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in early April 2025. The event focuses on the notion of "operational image" and engages with various aspect's of Parikka's work with four architecture and art history scholars responding through their own research.  His book Operational Images came out in 2023 (University of Minnesota Press).

Parikka will also give a talk at Columbia University in New York based on the research conducted…

Jussi Parikka Visiting Professor at UC Riverside

DARC Director, professor Jussi Parikka has been invited as the inaugural Visiting Professor at UC Riverside in California. Hosted by the UCR's Center for Ideas and Society, the visit in January will coincide with the Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World -exhibition at the UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts who organize the Operativity and Digital Capture -symposium. Parikka will also participate in a book discussion on his…

DARC PhD Research Workshop “everything is a matter of distance” at transmediale 2025

We are happy to announce that our long-term collaboration with transmediale art and digital culture festival continues. Resonating closely with their 2025 theme (near) near but — far that focuses on "how algorithms place us in weird proximities and new intimacies with one another and the qualities of closeness we lose by way of their machine-driven actions." Our workshop on ”everything is a matter of distance" will engage with historical and contemporary tropes of distance as they pertain to…