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6 May 2008
Networked Cultures - The Toronto Dialogues

University of Toronto, Toronto

launch and roundtable: Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space

with Christine Shaw,
Eric Cazdyn,
Gita Hashemi,
Luis Jacob,
Peter Mörtenböck,
Helge Mooshammer,
Adrian Blackwell

Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 6:30pm

The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street
Toronto

Adrian Blackwell is an artist, urban researcher and designer, whose work focuses on the spaces of uneven development produced through post-Fordist processes of urbanization. He teaches architecture and urban design at the University of Toronto.

Eric Cazdyn is professor of globalization and cultural theory at the University of Toronto. Author of The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan, he is currently completing a manuscript on illness and time in the twenty-first century.

Born in Iran, Gita Hashemi is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, curator and educator who has engaged for thirty years in the politics and poetics of social change and emancipation through participatory, collaborative and networked art-making.

Luis Jacob is a Toronto-based artist for whom experimentation with alternative forms for the creation of social interaction and participation plays a central role.

Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Helge Mooshammer is Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. Together, they initiated the international research platform Networked Cultures.

Christine Shaw is a curator, educator and writer, whose work focuses on the ethics, politics and aesthetics of participatory processes, networked culture and creative pedagogy. She organizes public events with Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry and teaches Visual Culture and Communication at the University of Toronto.

Supported by:
Austrian Cultural Forum, Ottawa
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto
Toronto Society of Architects

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