
07 December 15
Location
ZeM – Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies
Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 4
14467 Potsdam
How Things Spread: Habits vs. Viruses
In Verbindung mit dem Workshop „Encountering Programs: Visions, Orders, Interfaces“. (Nähere Informationen siehe dort.)
COORDINATION
Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, EMW
Prof. Dr. Michael Wedel, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Person
Prof. Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence (USA). She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She has been a Visiting Professor at Leuphana University (Germany), a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a Wriston Fellow at Brown, as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at the History of Science Department at Harvard, of which she is currently an associate. She is completing a monograph entitled Habitual New Media (forthcoming MIT 2016). Recent publication: Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (Massachusetts: MIT 2011).