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11\/02 \u2013 kl 10-12 \u2013 Medea
\nLuca Simeone, PhD Candidate in Interaction Design
\nTranslator, traitor? Translational processes and academic entrepreneurship in design labs<\/strong> \u2013 75% Seminar
\nDiscussant: Scott Brown, Parsons DESIS Lab – The New School<\/p>\n

This study builds upon the concept of translation in order to investigate three academic labs and their entrepreneurial dimension: Medea at Malm\u00f6 University, MIT SENSEable City Lab and metaLAB (at) Harvard. The three labs are headquartered within academia, but use design to foster coordinated actions with different stakeholders (industry, government, NGOs, citizens).
\nThis dissertation argues that in these situations design can (1) favor translational processes, where ideas, concepts, requirements, needs, interests of multiple stakeholders are translated into different languages or articulations, for example through the production of sketches, visual representations, prototypes, and (2) consequently connect and align the stakeholders to a point where coordinated actions can be carried out.
\nFindings – Findings emerge as perspectival constructs and illustrate that design-based translational processes favor entrepreneurship in the specific form of coordinated action. As the Italian adage \u2018traduttore, traditore\u2019 (\u2018translator, traitor\u2019) suggests, these translation processes unfold through relations of power and resistance, cultural slippages, appropriations and remixes of meaning.<\/p>\n

If you are interested to read the entire text or a 30-page extract please send an email to luca.simeone@mah.se<\/p>\n

18\/02 \u2013 kl 10-12 \u2013 Room E203 (Aktersalongen)
\nKatarina Karlsson, University of Gothenburg
\nDet essentiellt \u201dfeminina\u201d \u2013 en kartl\u00e4ggning genom konstn\u00e4rlig praktik av det feminina territorium som den tidigmoderna musiken erbjuder<\/strong><\/p>\n

I v\u00e5rt samh\u00e4lle p\u00e5g\u00e5r ett st\u00e4ndigt namngivande av vad som \u00e4r \u201ckvinnligt\u201d. Att anv\u00e4nda ordet \u201dfeminin\u201d i kombination med \u201dessentiell\u201d \u00e4r provocerande. Samtidigt anv\u00e4nds begreppet st\u00e4ndigt till exempel i tv-programmen \u201dTrinny och Susannah stylar om\u201d, d\u00e4r olyckliga kvinnor kl\u00e4s upp och stylas till \u201cfemininare\u201d versioner av sig sj\u00e4lva. Men begreppet \u201dfemininitet\u201d har inte alltid gjort kvinnor lyckliga. F\u00f6r fyra hundra \u00e5r sen i England f\u00f6rknippades kombinationen kvinnlighet och musik med horaktighet och l\u00e4ttja. I debatten som f\u00f6regick det engelska inb\u00f6rdeskriget (1642-1651) ans\u00e5gs musik leda till d\u00e5lig moral genom att vissa element i musiken, som drillar, falsetts\u00e5ng och kromatik, f\u00f6rkvinnligade m\u00e4n. I denna sociokulturella kontext uppstod genren luts\u00e5ng, en tonsatt text d\u00e4r en f\u00f6rskjuten \u00e4lskare begr\u00e5ter sitt \u00f6de och anklagar kvinnan f\u00f6r falskhet, svek och grymhet. S\u00e5ngerna skapar en matris f\u00f6r kvinnans beteende d\u00e4r hon fr\u00e5ntas m\u00f6jlighet att vara v\u00e4nlig, r\u00e4dd eller ointresserad. K\u00e4rlek eller hat \u00e4r de enda alternativen. I m\u00e5nga s\u00e5nger \u00f6verg\u00e5r anklagelserna till hot om sj\u00e4lvmord och i ett f\u00e5tal till hot om v\u00e5ld.
\nN\u00e4r verbal aggression har belysts i kombination med musik har det hittills handlat om rap och rock. Tidigmoderna luts\u00e5nger har betraktats som k\u00e4rlekss\u00e5nger. Att verbal aggression som gr\u00e4nsar till ett dysfunktionellt beteende ing\u00e5r i luts\u00e5ngernas retorik \u00e4r uppm\u00e4rksammat av litteraturhistoriker, exempelvis Cynthia E Garretts artikel Sexual Consent and the Art of Love in the Early Modern English Lyrics, 2004. Trots detta \u00e4r det ignorerat b\u00e5de av de som utf\u00f6r musiken och\/eller skriver om den. Den luckan vill jag fylla med det h\u00e4r projektet.
\nAllt oftare framf\u00f6rs tidigmodern musik i genre\u00f6verskridande sammanhang, men knyts s\u00e4llan till andra discipliner som genusteori och psykologi.
\nI det h\u00e4r projektet synligg\u00f6rs det kulturella bagaget som medf\u00f6ljer begreppet \u201dfemininitet\u201d fr\u00e5n tidigmodern debatt f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rst\u00e5 n\u00e5got om maktstrukturer idag.
\nGenom att m\u00e5nga s\u00e5ngtexter p\u00e5 n\u00e5gra f\u00e5 rader g\u00e5r fr\u00e5n avvisad k\u00e4rlek till besatthet och hot, vill projektet kartl\u00e4gga hur psykologiska m\u00f6nster sammanfaller med tidigmoderna k\u00e4rlekss\u00e5nger. Den retorik luts\u00e5ngerna representerar j\u00e4mf\u00f6rs med textmeddelanden mottagna av offer f\u00f6r stalking f\u00f6r att synligg\u00f6ra en gr\u00e5-zon som kan skapa igenk\u00e4nning genom publika framtr\u00e4danden. Detta \u00e4r viktigt f\u00f6r att m\u00e5nga m\u00e4nniskor n\u00e5gon g\u00e5ng kan ha varit i n\u00e4rheten av ett s\u00e5dant beteende eller blivit utsatta f\u00f6r det. Med den kraftfulla emotionella kommunikation som musik inneb\u00e4r kan projektet leda till st\u00f6rre f\u00f6rst\u00e5else f\u00f6r hur en strategi av detta slag uppst\u00e5r. Genusteori kommer att anv\u00e4ndas f\u00f6r att se hur k\u00f6n g\u00f6rs i tidigmodern musik. Luts\u00e5ngernas retorik analyseras och j\u00e4mf\u00f6rs med textmeddelanden mottagna av kvinnor utsatta f\u00f6r verbal f\u00f6rf\u00f6ljelse via sms, facebook, mail mm.
\nTv\u00e5 kvinnliga tons\u00e4ttare \u00e5ter-komponerar tidigmoderna musiken f\u00f6r solist och vokalensemble Med hj\u00e4lp av publika framf\u00f6randen i Sverige och England kommer de utmaningar och provokationer som uppst\u00e5r ur detta n\u00e5 m\u00e5nga och helt andra m\u00e4nniskor \u00e4n de som n\u00e5s av vetenskapliga artiklar.<\/p>\n

25\/02, 26\/02 \u2013\u00a0Medea, Malm\u00f6 University and Malm\u00f6 Slottstr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden
\nLiving Archives Research Project
\nSomatic Archiving Symposium: performance and discussion event around the body, somatics and archiving<\/strong><\/p>\n

SCHEDULE<\/p>\n

Wednesday 25 February
\n18:00 performance by Joan Laage followed by warm drinks in the\u00a0Slottsparken Greenhouse, Malm\u00f6<\/a>, located next to Slottstr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdens kaf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Thursday 26 February
\n9:30 coffee and registration. Roundtable and performances from 10:15 until 16:30, at the\u00a0 Medea Studio<\/a>, Malm\u00f6 University.<\/p>\n

The \u201csomatic\u201d refers to a deep layer of the body, radiating outwards through physical and affective exchanges with the wider world. This symposium\/event opens questions around the somatic, archiving, memory and cultural heritage. Performances by Joan Laage (USA), Boaz Barkan (Denmark) and Luanda Carneiro Jacoel (Brazil\/Norway) will be interspersed by round-table discussions with contributions from academics, students and independent professionals.
\nWe do not yet know what Somatic Archiving means. Expanding a performative mode of artistic research, we invite you to join us in posing questions or offering performative provocations to explore the zone where archiving, cultural memory and the body converge.
\nHow does the body record and archive memories?
\nHow can we access body memories through dance and somatic practices?
\nHow can we archive, collect or disseminate corporeal memories?
\nWhat is activated in the body of a performer when they connect with people, memories and experiences of the past?
\nDoes reawakening the past \u201cpre-mediate\u201d or anticipate future physical and cultural forms?
\nWhat political and social implications are revealed when historical memory is accessed and restaged through the living body?
\nFor detailed schedule, registartion and more information please visit: http:\/\/livingarchives.mah.se\/2015\/01\/somatic-archiving-symposium-feb-2015\/<\/p>\n

!!!OBS!!! The Seminar is Cancelled!<\/strong>11\/03 \u2013 kl 10-12 \u2013 Room E203 (Aktersalongen)
\nFredrik Str\u00f6mberg, PhD Candidate in Media and Communication Studies
\nMuslim Superhero Comics – Genre vs. Content \u2013 presentation of a work-in-progress paper<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the last decade, there have been at least two attempts in the Middle East at establishing publishing houses with a focus on superhero comics: AK Comics in Egypt and Teshkeel in Kuwait. These two publishing ventures were started with similar intent: to use the popular genre of superhero comics to promote Muslim ideas and beliefs, as well as a general idea of benevolent coexistence between different religions and cultures across the world. Both ultimately faltered in their endeavours. An analysis of the comics published, and the debate that has surrounded them, indicate that the genre specific qualities of superhero comics limits it from being used commercially to communicate across cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n

16\/03 \u2013 kl 10-12 \u2013 Medea
\nRaiford Guins, Associate Professor of Culture and Technology, Stony Brook University, New York
\nArcade Video Games and Design History<\/strong><\/p>\n

This talk will argue for an expanded view of \u2018game design\u2019 to account for the industrial and graphic design of the historic coin-operated arcade video game cabinet. Attention is afforded to machines produced between 1971 and 1979, before color monitors and multicolored graphics became prevalent. Focusing on a period before the \u2018video game craze\u2019 hit full swing with its major \u2018stars\u2019 on the horizon and with the design paradigms of older electromechanical games still prevalent, it provides a look into machines for which cabinets played a much larger role in \u2018filling in the gaps\u2019 when the modified TVs behind the bezel still radiated in black and white. Technological constraints compelled cabinet design to play a contributory if not constitutive role in defining the game and gameplay. The talk closes with a brief introspective discussion of the particular problems facing the research of coin-op history while signaling the importance of Design History to the critical historical study of video games.<\/p>\n

Raiford Guins is an Associate Professor of Culture and Technology within the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. He is also Founding Curator of the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection at Stony Brook University and Principal Editor with the Journal of Visual Culture.\u00a0 He has recently published Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game After (MIT Press, 2014) and is currently researching his next book, tentatively entitled Serving History: A Pre-History of an Analog Computer Game Posthumously named Tennis For Two, 1941-1958. His writings on game history appear in the following journals and magazines: The Atlantic, Cabinet, Design and Culture, Design Issues, Game Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. He has also edited Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, with Henry Lowood. The collection will be published in 2016 with MIT Press.<\/p>\n

18\/03 – kl 10-12 – Medea
\nSeminar on Openness<\/strong>
\nPolitics, practices, problems and potentials of openness: the debate spans Open Data Creative Commons, Open Knowledge, Access, Inclusion, Participation, Appropriation and Privacy.
\nJoin the Living Archives group to discuss the manifold dimensions of openness. Anyone is invited to offer statements or provocation to launch the discussion.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/livingarchives.mah.se<\/p>\n

25\/03 \u2013 kl 10-12 \u2013 Room E203 (Aktersalongen)
\nBerndt Clavier, Senior Lecturer, Malm\u00f6 University
\nPale Kings of the bios politikos: Wallace, Barth, Pynchon and the Politics of Literary Form<\/strong><\/p>\n