The digitization of daily life has led to an unprecedented surge of data, with vast implications for calculation, measurement, valuation, and analysis across social and cultural research. This conversation between renowned artist Chris Salter and social scientist Celia Lury will focus especially on the empiricism of sensation—how digital traces are meshed with the body—and will address questions such as how aesthetics can be put to use across disciplines, from the social sciences to political branding to the arts.
Presentations by Celia Lury and Chris Salter will be followed by an open discussion with respondents.
Participants
Celia Lury
Celia Lury is Director of the Warwick ESRC DTC and Director of the newly established Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Recent publications on methodology include: Inventive Methods, co-edited with Nina Wakeford, Routledge 2012, and Measure and Value co-edited with Lisa Adkins, Sociological Review Special Issue, 2012.
Chris Salter
Chris Salter is Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research and Creation in Media Art and Technology and Associate Professor, Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Art at Concordia University, Montreal. Salter studied economics and philosophy at Emory University and received his Ph.D. in theater directing and criticism with a second concentration in computer-generated sound at Stanford University where he worked with former Brecht assistant Carl Weber as well as pioneers of digital synthesis John Chowning, Max Matthews and Chris Chafe at the Center for Research in Computer Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He was visiting professor in music, graduate studies and digital media at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) before joining Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 2005. He was also Guest Professor at the KhM in Cologne in 2010 and Guest Faculty at the Masters program in Media Arts History. Institute für Bildwissenschaften. Donau University. Krems, Austria. October 2011. He was appointed Director of Hexagram-Concordia in 2011.
