22 February 2017: Seminar on Art, Science & Agency

ART, SCIENCE AND AGENCY A presentation by Professor Andrew Pickering, followed by discussion Wednesday 22nd February 2017 at 4.00 – 6.00 In Scott Building 109, University of Plymouth   Andrew Pickering’s early work was in theoretical particle physics, but in the late 1970s he joined the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh and moved… Continue reading 22 February 2017: Seminar on Art, Science & Agency

23 March 2016: “Freedom of Time and Space: Technological Affordances of Play” seminar

You are welcome to attend this seminar, presented by James Sweeting, and organised by the Transtechnology research group 23 March 2016 at 1pm in the seminar room on Floor 3 of the Link Building, Plymouth University.   In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator… Continue reading 23 March 2016: “Freedom of Time and Space: Technological Affordances of Play” seminar

Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”

BY KATHARINE S. WILLIS The approach and focus of my book, Netspaces, published last year, is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is, how we experience and inhabit urban space. It reflects on the nature of the spatial effects of the networked and mediated world – from mobile phones… Continue reading Feature: “Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World”

‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds

CogNovo Research Fellow, Guy Edmonds, has published a podcast with Roger Malina on the very early days of cinema. It has the title “The Divorce of Eye and Ear is an Accident of the History of Technology” and is available on the international, interdisciplinary, multi-lingual online platform, Creative Disturbances. Creative Disturbances is a new Leonardo… Continue reading ‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds