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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…

SLSA 2024 Keynote by Professor Jussi Parikka

DARC director, professor Jussi Parikka has been invited to give a keynote at the prestigious Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) annual conference 2024 that takes place 7th to 10th of November in Dallas, Texas.

Parikka's talk is about environmental aesthetics and ecomedia through two case studies: vegetal surfaces (referring to his recent co-authored book, Living Surfaces) and thermopolitics of coldness through a new video essay, also co-authored with Abelardo Gil-Fournier. The…