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Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy
SCMP News: November 2006
- 12th Annual FOCUS Screenings and Creative Achievement Awards
- Launch of Technologies of Magic
- Mr Keith Vincent Smith has become MU Innovation Awards finalist
- 2006 SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM- Thursday 19th October - Has been Cancelled
Mr Keith Vincent Smith has become MU Innovation Awards finalist
Mr Keith Vincent Smith of Warawara has become a finalist in this year's MU Innovation Awards.
Keith's work forms an exhibition at the State Library of NSW which was shown earlier this year, called 'Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney 1770-1850'. The winners of the awards will be announced at an event on November 29.
2006 SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM- Thursday 19th October - Has been CANCELLED
'The Art of City Making: City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave'
Dr John Montgomery
Managing Director
Urban Cultures Ltd
Date: THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Time: 3-5pm
Location: ROOM 601 C3B
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
To see rest of the Seminar Series schedule for semester 2, 2006 offered by SCMP's Sociology department please click here
12th Annual FOCUS Screenings and Creative Achievement Awards
The Department of Media will arrange for the 12th Annual FOCUS Screenings and Creative Achievement Awards. FOCUS is the annual presentation of selected works produced by B Media Screen Production students.
The FOCUS Screenings and Awards will be held 6.30pm Tuesday 28 November
at the Chauvel Cinema, cnr Oatley and Oxford Sts, Paddington.
Media invites all to join this celebration of students' work.
Please RSVP to Media Administrator Christine Jones (cjones@scmp.mq.edu.au) by Friday 24 November if you wish to attend.
Launch of Technologies of Magic
The Power Institute will launch Technologies of Magic A cultural study of ghosts, machines & the uncanny Edited
by John Potts & Edward Scheer
Published by Power Publications in November 2006
To be launched by Charles Merewether, Artistic Director and Curator for the 2006 Sydney Biennale and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University Contributors Chris Chesher, Anne Cranny-Francis, Annette Hamilton, Scott McQuire, Rachel Moore, Stephen Muecke, Andrew Murphie, John Potts, Patricia Pringle, Edward Scheer
When: 6.00 for 6.30 pm
Monday 13 November 2006
Where: Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road
Glebe NSW 2037
RSVP Essential
events@gleebooks.com.au
Tel: 9660 2333
Web: www.gleebooks.com.au/events
Technologies of Magic charts curious territory-a place occupied by both machines and magic.
This collection of essays investigates the co-existence of very old forms of thought-belief in ghosts, magic, spirits-and contemporary culture. Refracted through highly technologised societies, magic manifests itself in surprising ways and through a diverse range of practices.
Apprehension of the magical-in the world of machines- can give rise to a feeling of uncanny unease. These essays show that ultimately this produces another way of thinking about technology in contemporary culture.
Editors John Potts is Associate Professor in Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Radio in Australia (1989) and co-author with Andrew Murphie of Culture and Technology (2003).
Edward Scheer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Theatre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is editor of 100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud (2000) and Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader (2003).