1st Scrambled Messages Workshop: Space

Objects of Long-distance control. Lateen rigged caravel.

Friday 15th November 2013, 3.30-5.30pm
The Courtauld, Research Forum South Room

The first of the series of four Scrambled Messages workshops. We discussed what telecommunications do to space. From the technological networks that underlie all forms of communications, to the architecture of traffic light systems and the dreamlike creations of digital thresholds. A fascinating discussion to start off the series.

Papers

Kittler, FA & Griffin, M (1996). The City is a Medium in New Literary History Vol. 27, No. 4, Literature, Media, and the Law (Autumn, 1996), pp. 717-729. Available online here.

Edgerton, D (2013). And the Word became Technology in Drawings that Count: the work of diploma 15. F Hughes (ed.), Architectural Association Publications.

Franklin, S (2012). Cloud Control: or The Network as Medium in Cultural Politics, Vol. 8, No.3, pp. 443-464. Available online here.

Law, J (1986). On the Methods of Long Distance Control: Vessels, Navigation, and the Portuguese Route to India in Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge? John Law (ed),  Sociological Review Monograph 32, Routledge, Henley, pp. 234-263. Available online here.

Participants

Caroline Arscott (CIA)

Anne Chapman (KCL)

Seb Franklin (KCL)

Natalie Hume (CIA)

Cassie Newland (KCL)

Clare Pettitt (KCL)

Richard Taws (UCL)

Event Details

Date:
Nov. 15, 2013