ProprioMedia Colloquium Series in Media Studies and Research


A venue for OCAD U faculty, grad students, and guest speakers to showcase their theoretical and practice-based research

 
DateFriday, November 28, 2014 - 8:30pm to 10:45pm

Website

http://www.propriomedia.ca/

Location

OCAD University Room 284 100 McCaul St.

A venue for OCAD U faculty, grad students, and guest speakers to showcase their theoretical and practice-based research

Speakers:
Robert Diaz [OCADU] "Queer Filipino/a Mediascapes and Diasporic Netizenship"

Aubrey Anable [UofT] "Touching Games: Affect and Gestural Gaming Interfaces"

In the colloquium, Robert Diaz will talk about transnational mediascapes that circulate narratives about Filipino/a gender and sexuality—from television soap operas, to news sites, to Youtube, and to social networking sites - and call for shifting the attention to new forms of participatory cultures enriches both the subjects and methodologies of queer Filipino critique.

Following Diaz, Aubrey Anable will investigate the technologies and performances of gestural gaming interfaces, and how they complicate the de-centring of subjectivity in the theoretical frameworks of game studies, new materialism, and affect theory. The presentation will pose the question: How do gestural gaming interfaces move us—move us in the literal sense by compelling us to move our bodies in certain ways, but also move us in the figural sense of affecting our emotional engagement with a game?  

ProprioMedia Colloquium Series, co-chaired by Selmin Kara and David McIntosh, provide a venue for OCAD faculty, select grad students, and guest speakers to showcase their current theoretical and practice-based research. The colloquia take place monthly and feature 2-3 speakers, delivering 25-30 minute presentations, followed by a Q&A.

DateFriday, November 28, 2014 - 8:30pm to 10:45pm

Website

http://www.propriomedia.ca/

Location

OCAD University Room 284 100 McCaul St.

Friday, November 28, 2014 - 8:30pm to 10:45pm

A venue for OCAD U faculty, grad students, and guest speakers to showcase their theoretical and practice-based research

Speakers:
Robert Diaz [OCADU] "Queer Filipino/a Mediascapes and Diasporic Netizenship"

Aubrey Anable [UofT] "Touching Games: Affect and Gestural Gaming Interfaces"

In the colloquium, Robert Diaz will talk about transnational mediascapes that circulate narratives about Filipino/a gender and sexuality—from television soap operas, to news sites, to Youtube, and to social networking sites - and call for shifting the attention to new forms of participatory cultures enriches both the subjects and methodologies of queer Filipino critique.

Following Diaz, Aubrey Anable will investigate the technologies and performances of gestural gaming interfaces, and how they complicate the de-centring of subjectivity in the theoretical frameworks of game studies, new materialism, and affect theory. The presentation will pose the question: How do gestural gaming interfaces move us—move us in the literal sense by compelling us to move our bodies in certain ways, but also move us in the figural sense of affecting our emotional engagement with a game?  

ProprioMedia Colloquium Series, co-chaired by Selmin Kara and David McIntosh, provide a venue for OCAD faculty, select grad students, and guest speakers to showcase their current theoretical and practice-based research. The colloquia take place monthly and feature 2-3 speakers, delivering 25-30 minute presentations, followed by a Q&A.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Room 284 100 McCaul St.
Website: 
http://www.propriomedia.ca/
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