Last month the KCL Anatomy museum played host to Moving Past Present, an experiment in digital biography created by artist Janina Lange. Knowing that the theme for the Arts and Humanities Research Institute’s 2016 festival was play, I had approached Janina with the idea of creating an event that would
Moving Past Present: Digitally Reanimating the Gaiety Girls
Tags: archives, art, events, gaiety girls, gaming, gender, gesture, life writing, moving past present, performance, space and place, Strandlines
Time and Space Online: Liveness, Authenticity, Locality
The second of our international network meeting’s thematic discussion sessions tackled the question of how we understand the relationship between online and offline – and whether, indeed, this distinction still makes sense. It also asked whether the ways in which digital media encourage us to understand time and space
Tags: archives, digital media, ethnicity, gender, identity, language, space, time
The Politics of Digital Life
In September 2015 King’s College London hosted a meeting of Ego-Media’s international network, bringing together academics from around the world who share our interest in how digital media are reshaping understandings of identity and modes of representing the self. The meeting was punctuated by a series of thematic discussions
Tags: agency, archives, data, identity, museums, politics, prosthetics, surveillance