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SUMMARY:Dr Roberta Buiani talk on the visual culture of contagion - Robert
 a Buiani\, CoDE-institute\, Anglia Ruskin/York University\, Toronto
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CONTACT:Dr Jussi Parikka
DESCRIPTION:"Missing in Action: the trivialization of the visual culture o
 f contagion"\n\nMy research concerns the construction of scientific images
  of viruses and their subsequent display in popular science publications. 
 A joint product of technological layers and scientific principles\, as wel
 l as ...popular and cultural assumptions\, these visual expressions incorp
 orate a number of culturally “invisible” elements\, that is\, elements
  that are either interpreted as a given or as unworthy of attention (see\,
  for instance\, the racialized overtones emerging from these images). In t
 his presentation I briefly examine the above invisible discourses that con
 struct viruses today\, by exposing the mechanisms through which specific a
 spects that characterize their cultural interpretation are perpetuated in 
 popular culture by way of said visual representations\, and by examining t
 he way in which artistic practice may be able to expose and dismantle them
 .\n\nBio\n\nRoberta Buiani is an educator and a cultural theorist\, workin
 g at the intersection between the arts\, science and technology. She has a
  Master in Art History and a PhD in Communication and Culture both from Yo
 rk University (Toronto\, Canada). Her work has been published on Public (3
 1\, 2005\, special issue Digital Poetics and Politics)\, Fibreculture (2.2
 005)\, the Spam Book (Hampton Press\, 2009)\, and the Semiotics Review of 
 Books (19. 2010).\nHer new project “Marginalized: images of viruses and 
 the culture of contagion” explores the politics and the mechanisms that 
 construct and naturalize the scientific visualization of viruses and infec
 tious\ndiseases.
LOCATION:Anglia Ruskin University\, East Road\, room Hel 252
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