Culture Industry Redefined (Modding Cultures): Lectures, Talks + Screenings
as part of teaching for Digital Art and Technology programme (BA/BSc) at the University of Plymouth
module iDAT 304, run by Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox (2004 - ongoing)
The module considers issues around the 'culture industry' concept; its historical context and contemporary practice. Students on the module provide a response in the form of individual project as well as public event that makes the draws attention to contemporary relevance of the concept.
PROGRAMME of PUBLIC EVENTS
2005 →
RipMixBurn, two-day students' conference
→ in conjunction with public seminar
Surge to Merge and
DATA browser book launch organised by Joasia Krysa, Geoff Cox and Roslyn Porter, hosted by Plymouth Arts Centre, UK
→ further links to students' work
ripmixburn
2007 →
Pirate University, Open Day: programme of workshops, tutorials, online resources
→ Pirate University documentation
movie
2008 →
Stick it 2 the Man
series of free workshops, tutorials, online resources
→ tutorials / movies
How to Migrate from Mac or Windows to Linux (David Bishop)
A quick tutorial on Subvertising (Llia Apostolou)
How to create your own WiFi Antenna (James Collins)
How to make open source free Alcohol (Tom Corbett)
How to turn your phone into iPhone (Brett Harper)
Looping Audio for performance (Matt Knight))
How to create a wiimote interface (Imran Latif)
Open Software (Adam Primmer))
Google Hack (Tom Teague)
PROGRAMME of LECTURES, GUEST TALKS and READING
26 September 2006: Geoff Cox - Introduction: What is Culture? (
slides)
excerpts from Raymond Williams,
Keywords -
Culture
Seminar reading: Dick Hebdige, 'Culture',
hebdige-culture.pdf
03 October 2006: Geoff Cox - Techno-Capitalism and its discontents (
slides)
Seminar reading: Karl Marx, 'Fragment on Machines' (1857-8 written), in
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy,
marx-fragment_on_machines.pdf
10 October 2006: Critical Practice
Visiting Speaker: Malcolm Miles (Reader in Cultural Theory, UoP)
(download
video documentation)
17 October 2006: Public Realm and Private Markets: The Social role of the Creative Industries
Visiting Speaker: Paul Kelly (Principal Arts Officer, Plymouth City Council)
(download
video documentation) + (
paper)
24 October 2006: Screening
The Corporation, Joel Bakan (2003)
31 October 2006: Feral Trade
Visiting Speaker: Kate Rich (The Cube, Bristol)
(download
video documentation)
07 November 2006: introduction to 'The (Digital) Culture Industry',
http://www.data-browser.net/01
Seminar reading: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception' (1944),
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
14 November 2006: The Cultural Turn: Arts and regeneration in the context of the Culturalisation of commodities?
Visiting Speaker: Colin Searls (Lecturer in Media Arts, UoP)
(download
video documentation)
17 November 2006 (11.00 - 12.00): 'Cultural policy: remits of ACE and funding system in UK'
Visiting Speaker: Mariam Sharp (Head of Visual Arts and Literature, Arts Council England, South West)
(download
video documentation)
21 November 2006: Geoff Cox - Open Source intelligence (proprietary stupidity) (
slides)
Seminar reading: Tiziana Terranova (2006) 'Of Sense and Sensibility: Immaterial Labour in Open Systems', in
Curating Immateriality,
http://www.anti-thesis.net/texts/DB/DB03/Terranova.pdf
28 November 2006 (9-10, venue: Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street):'Practice of Curating'
Visiting Speaker: Paula Orrell (Curator,
Plymouth Art Centre)
05 December 2006: introduction to 'The Author as (Digital) Producer',
http://www.data-browser.net/03/
Seminar reading: The Institute for Applied Autonomy (2005) 'Engaging Ambivalence: Interventions in Engineering Culture', in
Engineering Culture,
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/essays/EngagingAmbivalence.pdf
12 December 2006: Screening
The Yes Men, Phil Bayly and Mike Bonanno (2005)
