my old professor neil lazarus used to love to pull some real bourdieurian
moves,arguing that every claim or individual could some how be situated.
But what about music and sound?
I always felt that there was some predictive character to music, like attali writes in noise, that music is a mirror of society, and anticipatory.
Maybe a distorted mirror? How do we situate a sound if it is a reflection, a predictive inverse of our own images..
I am not sure that this conference coming up,
called architecture and situated technologies
will directly address this, but there are some excellent speakers and presentations planned…
a blurb:
Architecture and Situated Technologies
A 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of “situated” technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metapolis.
the lineup is large, but it includes these folks:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Usman Haque
Natalie Jeremijenko
Karmen Franinovic
Anne Galloway
organized by:
Omar Khan
Trebor Scholz
Mark Shepard
Oct 19 and 20
The Urban Center
457 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10022
Oct 21
Eyebeam
540 W. 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
think it’s best to try to register in advance, so sayeth the voices from the site…