Beyond the text form: digital culture and new epistemologies explores new cultural forms and practices developed in the digital age that challenge or undermine hegemonic modes of knowledge production historically linked to the written text. The conference is especially interested in hosting discussions focusing on the creation and renewal of non-textual strategies that open the possibility of articulating different forms of knowledge production. We consider that art-based research, digital communities and open access, expanded forms of writing, performance and multimedia digital interventions are among the strategies that are challenging the traditional conceptions of knowledge. The conference does not only seek to identify these new forms and to explore how they are strengthened by practices through an expanding textual knowledge, but also it intends to shed light onto the possibilities they open to renegotiate the unequal geopolitical distribution of knowledge between the production centers and peripheries. A central question is whether non-textual media or new digital forms respond differently to concrete needs through a local epistemological production instead of a modern, textual and universal knowledge?
We have invited scholars, artists and graduate students from all disciplines and professions related to the Arts and Humanities as well as the Social Sciences (cultural studies, philosophy, media studies, communications, psychology, history, visual arts, sociology, political science, and related fields) to explore and discuss these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment.
Header picture: http://eleconomista.com.mx/multimedia/fotogaleria/2010/11/11/iluminan-zocalo-centenario
We have invited scholars, artists and graduate students from all disciplines and professions related to the Arts and Humanities as well as the Social Sciences (cultural studies, philosophy, media studies, communications, psychology, history, visual arts, sociology, political science, and related fields) to explore and discuss these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment.
Header picture: http://eleconomista.com.mx/multimedia/fotogaleria/2010/11/11/iluminan-zocalo-centenario