Heterotopia, heteroglossia and media
Speaker: Simon Perkins, QUT
When: 2004-11-23 10:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Margot Brereton
Abstract:Contemporary multimedia research centres on problems concerning
communication and dialogue. Recent projects like Zhang Gaùs üThe
Peoplesù Portrait: A Global Networked Public Art Projectý allow
audiences to transmit their passport snap-shots across a physically
dispersed but virtually unified environment. My recent research
project the üVirtual Heteroglossiaý provides contributors with the
opportunity to contest their shared understanding through their
exchange of on-line responses. While one project appears to be
inspired by Michel Foucaultùs metaphor of the Heterotopia
(superimposing social spaces/orders), the other aims to test
conditions of Mikhail Bakhtinùs notion of the Heteroglossia
(dialogic and contestation).
Biography:Doctorate of Creative Industries (ongoing), Master of Fine Arts
(RMIT 1998), Bachelor of Fine Arts (film) (Canterbury U,
Christchurch NZ 1992).
Website: http://www.creativeindustries.qut.com/people/staff/next.jsp?userid=perkinss&secid=Introduction
link: http://www.heterotopia.com.au/
Type: InfEnv
Contact:Margot Brereton, seminar host (margot@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)