
Andrew Feenberg: 2012 transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture
With the annual Marshall McLuhan Lecture, the transmediale invites a figure in the Canadian cultural landscape, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society. The 2012 transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture will be held by Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication of [more...]

Electric Speed is a programme of new commissions by Jeremy Bailey, Jillian McDonald, Jon Sasaki, Will Gill, and Mouna Andraos & Melissa Mongiat. Curated by Kate Armstrong and Malcolm Levy for Revised Projects and the New Forms Media Art Society, the works are designed for presentation on urban screens. The programme will be exhibited at [more...]
Graham Larkin: “THE REAL MESSAGE: MCLUHAN’S MEDIA PRACTICE”
THE REAL MESSAGE: MCLUHAN’S MEDIA PRACTICE Lecture by Graham Larkin (Ottawa, Canada) Friday November 25, 16.00 – 18.00 Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada Berlin In a 1959 talk and a 1964 book Marshall McLuhan famously declares that “the medium is the message.” By 1967 the title of a typographically adventuresome book turns “message” into [more...]

> Visit website A series of events will be held in Budapest in 2011 to honor the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth. The participating Budapest institutions are the Ludwig Museum, the Kunsthalle, LABOR, Kitchen Budapest, the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the Department of Media and Communications (Institute for Art [more...]

Blowup: We Are All Crew, at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media
> Visit website Blowup is a series of events and exhibitions that explore contemporary questions from multiple viewpoints. Blowup zooms in on ideas, bringing into focus clear pictures of how art, design, philosophy, and technology are transforming our lives — or reinforcing the status quo. Blowup: We Are All Crew is a three day programme [more...]

