Technologies of Listening Workshop
31 July 2008, UTSConvenors: Justine Lloyd (UTS) & Kate Crawford (UNSW)
This workshop will allow for the investigation of the crucial role of technology in listening. The focus will be on the cultural forms of listening that bring together material objects with social practices, collective formations and subjectivities. The emphasis on listening will allow participants to explore common themes and problems: to what extent have technologies embodied already existing modes of listening and to what extent do they produce new ones? What sonic networks and flows do contemporary material cultures reinforce, and how do local sound cultures redraw and reconstitute themselves in a digital environment? What is the function of shared spaces of listening in relation to individual environments, such as MP3 players and mobile phones?
The Technologies of Listening workshop is the first event on the Speaking Tour by Dr Jonathan Sterne
Justine Lloyd (with Tanja Dreher amd Penny O'Donnell) is coordinator of The Listening Project and convenor (with Kate Crawford) of the Technologies of Listening workshop. She is currently a lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University Sydney and will be returning to UTS as research associate in July 2008. Justine was most recently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow at UTS, working on a history of women's radio programming in Australia and Canada. She has taught cultural and media studies in Australia and Poland. Through the ARC's Cultural Research Network she is developing programs of events on practice as research and comparative cultural studies research. Contact details.
Kate Crawford (with Justine Lloyd) is convenor of the Technologies of Listening workshop. Kate is an Associate Professor at the new Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communications at the University of New South Wales. Her work is in cultural research and media, with interests spanning across new media forms, constructions of youth and adulthood, and sound technologies. She is the author of Adult Themes (2006) which won the Manning Clark National Cultural Award. She is commencing an ARC Discovery project on mobile media and youth culture with Professor Gerard Goggin.
