Monday, November 11, 2019

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Concordia University

John Molson Building (MB), room 9A

1450 Guy Street

Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1J5

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FREE + open to the public!

The Epistemologies of the Archive Working Group will be hosting a free public lecture at Concordia University by Dr. Patrick Keilty. Patrick Keilty is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, with affiliate faculty positions in the Technoscience Research Unit, Cinema Studies Institute, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, and the Women and Gender Studies Institute. He holds a PhD in Information Studies with a concentration in Women’s Studies (now Gender Studies), from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Keilty’s primary research interest is the politics of digital infrastructures in the online pornography industry. His work spans issues in visual culture, sexual politics, technology studies, media studies, information studies, critical algorithm studies, political economy, database logic, critical theory, and theories of gender, sexuality, and race. Through visual analysis, interviews with software programmers, interface designers, and data scientists, analysis of technical literatures, and theories of desire, Keilty’s monograph project, provisionally titled Database Desires, examines the strategic choices designers make to structure and regulate sexual desire through algorithmic mediation that attempt to softly persuade viewers into continuing to search for an “imagined perfect image.”

Abstract TBA - check back soon!

The Epistemologies of the Archive Working Group is discussing the status of the film archive within a changing technological and socio-political environment. It is investigating broad-based questions about the history of archival practices and institutions; and about theoretical and sociological implications of these practices and institutions. The team is refining the definition and potential of the concept of counter-archive within the Canadian context, and developing a more conceptual understanding of media archiving practices.

VENUE ACCESSIBILITY
The room is accessible by elevator from the ground floor of the John Molson Building.