Philosophy Dialogues: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

835 North Kings Road,West Hollywood CA 90069

06 March, 2022

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The Philosophy Dialogues series is organized by Joseph Lemelin on the occasion of "Florian Hecker — Resynthesizers." Wendy Hui Kyong Chun – "Data Visceralization: From Kelly Dobson to Florian Hecker"Continuing her groundbreaking work in critical data studies, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun examines the notion of “data visceralization” in theory and practice. Taking us through a series of examples from Kelly Dobson to Florian Hecker, Chun’s discussion explores how multi-modal representations of information enable emergent relationships between human and machine senses. Philosophy DialoguesPlease join us at the Schindler House for a series of lectures organized by Joseph Lemelin and featuring philosophers Roy Ben-Shai, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Amy Ireland, Robin Mackay, and Gabriel Rockhill. The series is presented by Equitable Vitrines on the occasion of "Florian Hecker — Resynthesizers." Addressing Hecker’s work directly and obliquely, speakers in this series reflect on themes that his work evokes at the meeting point of theory and artistic practice. As automation and data-fueled technologies reconfigure lived experience, what new forms of sensing emerge? What kinds of relationships between human and machine sense arise? What does it mean for artists and theorists to intervene within these aesthetic transformations? Philosophy Dialogues gathers five contemporary thinkers from different theoretical orientations to investigate the capacities of art and technology to shape alternative worlds of sense and sense-making. Lead funding has been generously provided by the Wilhelm Family Foundation and the Michael Asher Foundation, with additional support from the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the Kebok Foundation, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs."Florian Hecker — Resynthesizers" is on display through March 13, 2022, at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House.www.equitablevitrines.com Wendy Hui Kyong ChunWendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor of Communication and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011), Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT 2016), and Discriminating Data (2021, MIT Press), and co-author of Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota + Meson Press 2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades and where she’s currently a Visiting Professor. Joseph LemelinJoseph Lemelin is a philosopher based in New York City. His work combines critical theory and the philosophy of mind to examine emerging technologies. He has taught in the Philosophy Department at The New School for Social Research and currently teaches philosophy of technology in the graduate program in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Founded in 2014, Equitable Vitrines is a Los Angeles 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that organizes exhibitions and educational programming. Its work is based upon the conviction that art’s value lies in its capacity to facilitate the emergence of new aesthetic and discursive forms, which are needed to enhance humanity’s self-understanding in an era of unprecedented change.