[spectre] Goldsmiths Biomediations symposium: videos now online

[Joanna Zylinska]

Dear All,

I wanted to let you know that the videos from Goldsmiths’ Biomediations 
symposium, which took place in May 2013, are now available online at the 
following address:
http://www.transitiomx.net/satelital_en.html

Symposium description:
‘Life’ signifies many things. To begin with, it is a philosophical 
abstraction referring to our meaningful existence in the world. But 
‘life’ also refers to biological processes taking place at 
environmental, social and cellular levels, as well as technical 
experiments with media, computer systems and biological models. Life as 
such doesn’t therefore exist: it is always mediated by language, 
culture, technology and biology. It is these multiple mediations of life 
that form the theme of this symposium Biomediations: Art, Life, Media. 
The term ‘biomediations’ encapsulates life’s own inherent dynamism that 
unfolds at environmental, social and cellular level. It also captures 
the creative, dynamic and evolving nature of media. The symposium will 
explore this intertwined process, whereby life is always mediated and 
whereby media themselves are living – i.e. composed of both 
technological and biological elements, and capable of generating new 
forms, unprecedented connections and unexpected events.

Videos:

Professor Joanna Zylinska
The aesthetic and ethical imperative of biomediations: opening remarks

Professor Sarah Kember, Goldsmiths, University of London
iMedia

Dr Btihaj Ajana, King’s College London
Measuring life: between the ‘who?’ and the ‘what’?

Ben Craggs, Goldsmiths, University of London
What does bioart do? From biomedia to biomediation

Professor Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London
Privations, Secretions

Dr Lynn Turner, Goldsmiths, University of London
Tympan Alley: posthuman performatives in Dancer in the Dark

Keynote lecture:
Stelarc (performance artist and Professor at Brunel University)
Engineering aliveness and affect in artificial systems: alternate 
operational architectures

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This event was organised with generous support from the Department of 
Media and Communications at Goldsmiths. It was a satellite event to 
Transitio_MX05 ‘Biomediations’: Festival of New Media Art and Video in 
Mexico City (20-29.09.2013): http://www.transitiomx.net/index_en.html. 
Thank you to Ben Pester for recording the event and to Amanda Lemus Cano 
and her team for putting them up. The symposium also hosted the visit of 
Dr Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland), who spoke about her plans for 
the Transitio exhibition in Mexico. More information about the 
exhibition curated by Dr Cook (with Rodrigo Alonso) can be found here:
http://www.transitiomx.net/muestra_en.php

LIQUID LIVING BOOK
The Mexico festival also involved the speed-editing of a liquid living 
book on Biomediations. The book is available here:
http://bit.ly/1fP4RMp

-- 
Professor Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net

Curator of Photomediations Machine
http://photomediationsmachine.net

Artistic Director of the Festival of New Media and Video Transitio_MX05 "Biomediations" in Mexico City in 2013

New book: Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/life-after-new-media-0