The Berkeley Center for New Media in collaboration with the Department of Film & Media will present Precarious Aesthetics: A Berkeley Conference. The conference will take place October 15-17, 2015, 9am-5pm in Sutardja Dia Hall at UC Berkeley and will examine the historical, theoretical, and philosophical implications of technological advances that “invite us to see the world, but through a lens that obstructs our vision to dazzling effect.”
Key note speakers will include:
Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Christine Ross, McGill University
Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley
Jeffrey Skoller, UC Berkeley
Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook University
W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago
Martin Jay, UC Berkeley
Basma AlsharifFor more information, visit: http://www.precariousaesthetics.org/
