News & Events
Upcoming Events
October 27, 2020: Immersivity and Technological Innovations
I will be presenting a keynote at the “Immersivity and Technological Innovations” Conference on October 27, 2020. I am looking forward to Douglas Trumbull’s talk! You can register here.
October 23, 2020 I will join Bernard Geoghegan, Randjodh Singh Dhaliwal, and Shane Denson for a Zoom Panel discussion on rendering worlds. Sponsored by the UC-Davis Humanities Institute and the Humanities Center at Stanford, Register for the Zoom here.
Past Events
November 9, 2018: SLSA Conference
I am looking forward to presenting my paper at SLSA, “Life and World: Experiments in Cosmotechnics” from 9:30 to 11:00 AM on November 9th, 2019. I will present the paper alongside co-panelists Heather Warren-Crow and Alanna Thain. More information about the SLSA Conference can be found here.
June 14, 2019: Lecture at TORCH
I was delighted to give a guest lecture hosted by the TORCH Research Network, Life Itself: In Theory and Practice. More information about this lecture and TORCH can be found here.
May 17-18, 2019: Keynote at Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference “Living in the Pluriverse”
I gave the Keynote lecture at the Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference in Toronto. Details on my lecture “Living in the Pluriverse: Animation Philosophy and Experiments in Cosmotechnics” can be found here.
March 28th: The Animatic Apparatus: Book Launch and Party
The department of Culture and Media invites you to join Deborah Levitt, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, in conversation with Jonathan Beller and Jason LaRiviere about her new book The Animatic Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image.
Thursday, March 28th, 6 PM
Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, I 203 55 West 13th Street, Room I-203, New York, NY 10011
March 14: SCMS Conference in Seattle
November 15, 2018: SLSA Conference in Toronto
In November I will present my paper “The Unthought Circuit: Virtual Reality and the Anthropo(s)cenic Imagination” from 4:30-6 PM.
A Conversation with Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt in Public Seminar
I join Bettine Josties in conversation about the central themes of my new book The Animatic Apparatus. Read “How Does Animation Change our Concept of Life and What Kind of Ethics Does it Require?” on Public Seminar. Published November 26, 2018
In this excerpt I discuss what kind of an ethics the age of the animatic apparatus, which profoundly affects our conventional idea of life and the relation between the body and the image, requires and what kind of risks and possibilities an ethics corresponding to the condition of animation entails. Published November 25th, 2018.
Read my essay “Rendering Worlds: Animation-Philosophy, Cosmotechnics, Conviviality” on Animation Studies 2.0. Published November 5th.
October 13: Through The Singularity Panel at Imagine Science Film Festival
I join Caleb Foss and others in a panel discussion called Through the Singularity. “The structure and character of modern life is shifting in ways that would have been incomprehensible to previous generations. The films in this program chart highly varied and uncommon paths: sci-fi secret histories of the last thirty years of tech invention, found-footage dystopian micro-epics, calmly nightmarish yet believable accounts of the next stages of forced upgrading, poetic essays into the risks of close observation, and other haunting expeditions into a vastly interconnected 20XX and beyond.”
More info can be found here.
My essay "Five Theses on Virtual Reality and Sociality" up on Public Seminar now
courtesy of Hyphen-Labs
I explore the potential implications of VR for subjectivity and the social world. Published May 10th, 2018.
http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/05/five-theses-on-virtual-reality-and-sociality/
Zero Books Podcast
http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-books-152-cgi-animation-and-the-death-of-the-real/
I talk with Doug Lane, the publisher of Zero Books, about The Animatic Apparatus and various other topics including virtual reality, the real, CGI, and post-cinematic affect.