Book presentation by Jussi Parikka: Digital Contagions

Book Presentation

Digital Contagions: A Media Archeology of Computer Viruses 
Author: Jussi Parikka
Moderator: José Gomes Pinto

Room S.010, ULHT
18:00h 

Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses by Jussi Parikka, offers a critical analysis of the culture and history of the phenomenon of computer viruses from different perspectives including security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems and the aspirations for artificial life in software.


Dr Jussi Parikka is Professor at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) who divides his time between Istanbul and the UK. His work in media theory has received wide international attention; the various books have addressed a wide range of topics relevant to a critical understanding of network culture, aesthetics and media archaeology of the digital. The books include the media ecology-trilogy Digital Contagions (2007), Insect Media(2010) and most recently, A Geology of Media (2015), which addresses the environmental contexts of technical media culture. In addition, Parikka has published such books as What is Media Archaeology (2012) and edited various books, most recently Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (2015, with Joasia Krysa) on the Finnish media art pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi.
http://jussiparikka.net

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