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Item Slow Media(CTheory, 2004) 2bears, Jackson; Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, MarilouiseItem Slow Suicide(Ctheory, 2004) 2bears, Jackson; Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, MarilouiseItem Wear the Skin of the New City(CTheory, 2005) 2bears, Jackson; Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, MarilouiseItem Remix Wars(CTheory, 2005) 2bears, Jackson; Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Doody, TanyaItem 99 Year Phone Call(CTheory, 1997) Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Cohen, LewisItem Fast Wall(CTheory, 1997) Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Cohen, LewisItem Panic USA(n. p., 1987) Rowe, CarelItem Toni Denise(CTheory, 1992) Kroker, Arthur; Marilouise, Kroker; Critical Art EnsembleItem Pamela Walen Live(CBC, 1996-11-15) Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, MarilouiseItem Wired Flesh(CBC, 1996-11-29) Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Mesley, WendyItem Exit Culture(CTheory, 1992) Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Critical Art EnsembleItem Disaffective Voices and Posthuman Subjects(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2014-12-02) Dyson, FrancesFrances Dyson, Emeritus Professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies (UC Davis) and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (University of New South Wales) presents her paper “Disaffective Voices and Posthuman Subjects.”Item The Transparency of Aesthetics: Between Nonsense and Technology(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2013-04-03) Hiebert, TedProfessor Ted Hiebert discusses the aesthetics of transparency in the context of his new book, In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty and Postmodern Identity. His lecture explores the codes and aesthetics of transparency, engaging questions of nonsense, perception and technology as ways to re-imagine the possibilities of the posthuman. Ted Hiebert is the author of the highly acclaimed, In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty and Postmodern Identity (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. As a Canadian visual artist, his large-scale photographic works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Professor Hiebert’s written work has been published in Performance Research, The Psychoanalytic Review, Technoetic Arts and CTheory.Item Code Drift & Life By Computer(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2010-03-12) 2bears, Jackson; Kroker, MarilouiseJackson 2bears is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia artist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Victoria. His artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, most recently at: EM-Media (Calgary, AB), the Vancouver Art Gallery, Interaccess (Toronto, ON), SAW (Ottawa, ON), and the North American Indigenous Games (Cowichan, BC). He has also been exhibited internationally in media arts festivals and group exhibitions such as Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland), Syncritism (Savannah, GA) and Altered States (Plymouth, UK). He was recently named the recipient of a Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts. Marilouise Kroker is Senior Research Scholar at the Pacific Center for Technology and Culture, University of Victoria. She is the author, with Arthur Kroker, of Hacking the Future (1996). She has co-edited and introduced numerous anthologies including Digital Delirium (1997), Body Invaders (1987), and Last Sex (1993) — all published by St Martin’s Press, as well as Critical Digital Studies: A Reader co-edited with Arthur Kroker (University of Toronto, 2008). She is the co-editor of the Digital Futures book series for the University of Toronto Press, as well as the peer-reviewed, electronic journal CTheory.Item Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and the Flight from the Flesh(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2006-10-19) Pfohl, StephenStephen Pfohl is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College where he teaches courses on social theory; postmodern culture; crime, deviance and social control; images and power; and sociology and psychoanalysis. Stephen is the author of numerous books and articles includingDeath at the Parasite Café, Images of Deviance and Social Control, Predicting Dangerousness,and the forthcoming volumes Venus in Video and Magic and the Machine. A past President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and a founding member of Sit-Com International, a Boston-area collective of activists and artists, Pfohl is also co-editor of the 2006 book Culture, Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology.Item Usual Suspects and Strange Bedfellows: Networks of Privacy Advocacy in Surveillance Societies(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2008-09-26) Bennett, Colin J.Dr. Colin Bennett received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is now Professor. From 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of information privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous articles, he has published three books: Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States(Cornell University Press, 1992); Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age(University of Toronto Press, 1999, with Rebecca Grant); The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in the Digital Age (Ashgate Press, 2003, with Charles Raab).Item CTheory Live Interview: Stelarc(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2006-04-20) StelarcStelarc is a world renowned Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology. He is Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, at the Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.Item Moving Online: Your Packets, Your ISP, Your Identity(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2009-06-05) Parsons, ChristopherWhen a person clicks a hyperlink they manifest their liberty by expressing a preference, and in the process transmit personal data to a particular website. Expressing one’s liberty is essential to the development of personal identity, but when it comes to digital expressions of self-hood what (and who) operates between the click of the button and data’s destination? This paper investigates how Internet Service Providers’ efforts to ‘secure’ and ‘manage’ digital networks, specifically as it pertains to data analysis technologies, can impact the development of individuals’ personal identities. With increasingly sophisticated data analysis technologies being deployed across digital networks online actions are associated with discrete public identities, making it increasingly challenging to hide one’s ‘real’ or ‘analogue’ identity while online . This coalescence of digital and analogue identities threatens to transform the Internet from a fertile environment that is conducive to identity-formation to one where self-censorship before the gaze of the public is commonplace.Item CTheory Live Interviews: N. Katherine Hayles(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2008-09-26) Hayles, N. KatherineDr. N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics(University Of Chicago Press, 1999) which won the Ren Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. Her most recent book is Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008). She is currently a professor in the Literature Program and the Information Science and Information Studies program (ISIS) at Duke University.Item CTheory Live Interview: N. Katherine Hayles(Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, 2006-04-26) Hayles, N. Katherine; Kroker, ArthurN. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author ofHow We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the René Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. Her most recent book is My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. She is currently the Hills Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles, where she has taught since 1992.