Dimendx ECIU Smart-ER seminar: Reflecting on Contemporary Urban Living and Human-machine Agency Through Performance Art
Strengthening Links with the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) in the field of digital media
The DCU School of Communications is involved in the Digital Media Network Doctoral Experience (Dimendx) project funded by the ECIU SMART-ER Seed Programme. The project aims to strengthen the research collaboration between ECIU partners in the field of digital media and also to foster a doctoral network through networking events and shared feedback and supervision. As part of this project the School of Communications recently welcomed ECIU partners Óscar Mealha from University of Aveiro (Portugal) and Dorota Kaminska and Grzegorz-Zwolinski from Łódź University of Technology (Poland) on a visit to DCU to discuss potential research collaborations.
The project also includes a series of online seminars, and the next one will be delivered by Marcos Dias on Thursday, 20 April at 1pm (Dublin time), details below:
Dimendx Seminar: Reflecting on Contemporary Urban Living and Human-machine Agency
Through Performance Art
Date and Time: Apr 20, 2023 01:00 PM (GMT+1 / Dublin tine)
Location: online via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting: https://dcu-ie.zoom.us/j/92570774096
Abstract:
In this seminar, Dr. Marcos Dias presents his research on the role of performance art as a means of reflecting on contemporary urban living and assemblages of human-machine agency. Based on his recent book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation (Manchester University Press, 2021), Marcos draws on perspectives from philosophy, machine aesthetics, posthumanism and urban studies to conceptualise the machinic city as a performative space that provides a counterpoint to the narrative of efficiency and predictability of the ‘smart city’.
Bio:
Marcos Dias is Assistant Professor and Programme Chair of the BSc in Multimedia at the School of Communications, Dublin City University. His research investigates the social and spatial impact of digital technologies in the city and citizen wellbeing in urban space. He was Co-PI on the PUDU C-19 project (with Dr. Carol Barron) that investigated the changing patterns of urban park usage in Dublin during the COVID-19 pandemic and the effectiveness of digital media towards communicating park events.
As a recipient of the Irish Research Council New Foundations 2022 award, Marcos is leading a research project in partnership with Create – The National Agency for Collaborative Arts and Ukrainian Action in Ireland that analyses the potential of performance art to enable Ukrainian refugees to raise awareness of their current situation to the Irish community.
For more information on this project, please contact Dr. Marcos Dias - marcos.dias@dcu.ie
Dorota Kaminska presenting her research on VR and AR to BSc in Multimedia students and staff from the School of Communications
DCU coordinating partner Marcos Dias states:
The visit from our partners Óscar, Dorota and Grzegorz demonstrates the potential of the ECIU consortium to enable collaboration on future European grant applications and to exchange teaching experience and methodologies at both undergraduate and graduate level in the field of digital media. During their visit, Dorota delivered a presentation to the BSc in Multimedia students on her cutting-edge research on AR and VR conducted in the Voxel Research Lab (https://voxellab.pl/) that she coordinates in Łódź and Óscar presented his research on smart cities.
Grzegorz-Zwolinski and Dorota Kaminska (left) from Łódź University of Technology (Poland) with DCU partners Dónal Mulligan (centre), Dragana Jurišić and Marcos Dias (right)
As part of the Dimendx project, the three DCU partners from the School of Communications (Marcos Dias, Dónal Mulligan and Dragana Jurišić) will also be visiting the University of Aveiro in Portugal between the 26th and the 28th of April to take part in a networking event with partners from University of Aveiro (Portugal), Lodz University of Technology (Poland), Linköping University (Sweden) and University of Trento (Italy).