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Media Organize (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ilia Antenucci, Armin Beverungen, Timon Beyes, Maja-Lee Voigt

Inhalt: This class brings together students from the MA Cultural Studies: Culture and Organization and the MA Kulturwissenschaften: Medien und Digitale Kulturen. It is a double seminar taught by Ilia Antenucci, Armin Beverungen, Timon Beyes and Maja-Lee Voigt. The seminar consists of two related parts. The first part is concerned with theories of (social) media and (digital) organization. The course is dedicated (and to some degree structured by) specific, and specifically mediating, objects that shape the practices, processes and affects of organization. Such media configure organizational (power) relations that are in-built into the devices and apparatuses of organizational life. Therefore, ›media organize‹ (Reinhold Martin). Practices of cultural labour and cultural organization, as well as the built environments of citites and everyday practices of urban living, rely on such media. At the same time, it takes labour, organizing and organizations to produce media (consider only the contemporary behemoths of data-driven and platform-based organization). The first part of the class prepares you conceptually for the practical, project-based work of the second part of the class. It is focused around key approaches to (social) media and (digital) organization, with lectorials on different conceptual approaches to thinking about and studying media and organization. These are complemented by the practical task of writing about how media organize and are organized, loosely built on The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies (eds. Beyes/Holt/Pias). The first part will also already introduce specific approaches to thinking about media and organization in the city and the arts. The second part of the class is project-based, with two parallel offers. As students you will be able to choose which project-based part to take part in, space permitting. Allocations will be made at the beginning of the semester. Both projects follow loosely similar logics of introducing some methodologies of approaching the study of how media organize the arts and the city, followed by some field work, and bringing both projects together in a joint student conference at the end, where students will be asked to creatively present the findings of their exploratory research. Project 1: Media Organize... the Arts (taught by Timon Beyes) It has become a truism to claim that cultural institutions are undergoing an enormous shift in how they organize and perform their work, propelled by the ubiquity, everydayness and agencies of digital infrastructures, information technologies and media platforms (all of this further fuelled by the ongoing pandemic). But inasmuch is this true? And how does this ›shift‹ take place, and what are its consequences? This part of the seminar offers a ›backstage experience‹ of one of Germany’s leading (and comparably young) concert halls (that is itself part of a renowned musical academy mainly open to aspiring musicians from the Middle East and North Africa, and based on the postcolonial thought of Edward Said). The students will become fieldworkers and participant observers to study how everyday (digital) technologies organize a concert hall. They will zoom in on specific, and specifically mediating, objects that shape cultural organization and cultural labour, its practices, processes and affects. Media Organize…the arts takes place in cooperation with the Barenboim-Said Academy and the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin. The Barenboim-Said Academy is pursuing a ›digital innovation‹ project funded by the Federal Government of Germany. The seminar is fieldwork-based (mainly interviews and participant observation) and will thus partly take place in Berlin. Full participation will entail adhering to the covid regulations of the Barenboim-Said Academy and the Pierre Boulez Hall. Please note that proof of vaccination or recovery as well as daily testing might be mandatory. Project 2: Media Organize... the City (taught by Armin Beverungen, Ilia Antenucci, Maja-Lee Voigt) This project focuses on how media organize the city. Even before Friedrich Kittler famously suggested that the city is a medium, theorists such as Lewis Mumford observed the media technological constitution of cities and their organization. The city has always been organized through and with media technologies, while more recently the technologies of ubiquitous and environmental computing, the field of urban informatics and approaches to smart cities have promised to turn cities into computers. While the city is thoroughly infused with infrastructures of sensing and calculation, with Shannon Mattern we insist that the city is not a computer and ask what constitutes the ›smartness‹ of cities. The project will revolve around a set of different group projects exploring how media organize the city, focused on the city of Hamburg, with groups having an input on what aspects they would like to focus on. This could involve e.g. ›data walks‹ in which the sensory media in the city are explored, or ›deep mappings‹ of urban infrastructure to explore their histories and developments, or ›countermappings‹ of alternative urban media. An introductory session where groups are constituted and methods are discussed is followed by two days of fieldwork in Hamburg. The project concludes with presentations, jointly with ... the Arts.