Edmonton

Feb 082011

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In 2011, the University of Alberta will host the Herbert Marshall McLuhan Edmonton Centenary. The Centenary will mark the birth of the influential scholar and public figure in Edmonton on 21 July 1911. The home in which the family lived while in Edmonton provides a material link to an intellectual legacy that continues to grow.

Professor McLuhan often commented that his upbringing in Western Canada provided a valuable alternative, or peripheral, perspective on the world. In his writings, he recalled experiences in Edmonton that were to shape his intellectual life. The University of Alberta awarded Prof. McLuhan an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1971. The Centenary will therefore continue the scholarly and popular development of the Edmonton-McLuhan connection.

The media-rich city landscapes of North America have raised new questions about public space and private space. How can we create and sustain cultural and economic spaces? What new images can we use to understand the city and what it might become? The McLuhan Centenary offers opportunities for citizens and scholars to reconsider the influence and mutual effects of media and the built environment of the city.

    McLuhan Year 2011 in Katowice — Exhibition

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    Cybergarden

    McLuhan Year 2011 in Katowice

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    Exhibition – “Hommage à McLuhan”

    In 2011 we are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, whose impact on media, education and art from the perspective of the contemporary global village cannot be overestimated.

    The cyberart exhibition collects works showing the connections and paradoxes between the oral, typographic and digital type of culture.

    May 19 – July 21, 2011
    Katowice, Poland

      McLuhan Year 2011 in Katowice — CyberGarden

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      Cybergarden

      McLuhan Year 2011 in Katowice

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      In 2011 we are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, whose impact on media, education and art from the perspective of the contemporary global village cannot be overestimated.

      The project explores various aspects of cyberculture: science, technology, new media research, design, artistic events, social interactions and media education. It is prepared by a team of experts from Media Institute in Katowice in cooperation with Katowice: City of Gardens — European Capital of Culture 2016.

      The project is directed towards the local community, especially children, youth and elderly people. Our activities aim at fostering the developement of information society in Upper Silesia, the most industrial region of Poland. Cybergarden is concentrated around the issues of accessibility of interfaces and public space, local identity and media ecology, social dialogue and understanding of the new media. Our special area of interest lies in research on perception, media literacy and design accesible to people with vision impairments.

      We hope that a user-friendly digital environment in connection with the real urban space and willingness to answer to the needs of city inhabitants can help the local community better communicate with the global world.

      January 1 – December 31, 2011
      Kotowice, Poland

        McLuhan in Europe 2011 is an initiative of transmediale in collaboration with the Marshall McLuhan Salon / Embassy of Canada Berlin, Gingko Press, and RIM. Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha