Event
In line with Penn’s Covid19 response guidelines (see here), the Cinema & Media Studies Program has decided to cancel Prof. Miryam Sas' colloquium. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and send our best wishes to all.
Feeling Media
This talk will present an overview of key issues in media theory and Japanese arts in order to think through the resonances and relationships between media practices in the 1960s-70s and more recent contemporary art in Japan I will focus on modes of thinking and praxis at the “intermediate range of agency,” a scale that blurs the boundaries between individual/personal modes of feeling and the material/social structures beyond the grasp of any individual. I’ll then speculate on the relevance of these historical and artistic perspectives for approaching contemporary media ecologies and grappling with today’s world apparently swamped in new media.
Miryam Sas is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written books and articles about Japanese experimental literature and arts including Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism (Stanford University Press, released in 2001) and Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return (Harvard, 2010). Feeling Media: Infrastructure, Potentiality, and the Afterlife of Art in Japan.