The second John Fekete Distinguished Lecture will take place on Thursday, November 13th at 7:30 pm and feature Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor and Chair, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University presenting New Media: Paradoxes and Habits

Professor Chun brings an interdisciplinary background in Systems Design Engineering (B.Sc. Waterloo) and English Literature (MA and PhD, Princeton) to her work in digital media. She is the author of Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011) and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006), as well as the co-editor of Race as Technology, special issue of Camera Obscura 24 (2009), with Lynne Joyrich and New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2006), with Thomas Keenan. Her current work, which she will discuss in her talk, focuses on what she calls “the paradoxical remains of new media.”

Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College

For more information contact Prof. Victoria DeZwaan, vdezwaan@trentu.ca

Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2014.