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HTNM Tim Stott Video Now Online

05 Mar, 2019

HTNM Tim Stott Video Now Online

Timothy Stott, Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, presented "Learning to Interact: Cybernetics and Play" as part of this year's History and Theory of New Media Colloquium. We're pleased to share the video from this fantastic talk!

Stott considers the shared history of play and cybernetics, where a generation of users were trained to the behavioural and cognitive repertoires required by interactive technologies, and which correlated modes of sociability, learning and governance that have become norms in the ongoing ‘ludification’ of culture.

Timothy Stott is a historian of contemporary art and design, with a focus on play and games, systems theory and ecology, and the decorative and cognitive arts. He is Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology. His monograph Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices was published in 2015. In 2016, he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. His talk at BCNM draws on material from his current book project, A Constructive Intelligence: Art, Design and Play After 1945. With Johanna Gosse (University of Idaho), he is also co-editing Expanding Systems Aesthetics: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s. Further research can be found at http://dit.academia.edu/TimStott

The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The series promotes new, interdisciplinary approaches to questions about the uses, meanings, causes, and effects of rapid or dramatic shifts in techno-infrastructure, information management, and forms of mediated expression. Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media, these events are free and open to the public.

See below for the video, or head directly to Youtube here.