Operativity and Digital Capture is a public symposium with media archeologist, Dr. Jussi Parikka, the first Visiting Professor at UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society. At this event, theorists, artists, scholars and practitioners from Southern California will discuss the operations of machine vision, especially relating to agency, culpability and connection in an image world functioning at a remove from human engagement. The symposium is presented as a part of Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World on view at UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts from September 21, 2024 to February 2, 2025.

Dr. Jussi Parikka is Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University in Denmark where he leads the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (DARC) as well as being the founding co-director of the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research program. He also holds a visiting professorship at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). In 2021 he was elected as member of Academia Europaea. His published books include Insect Media (2010), Digital Contagions (2007/2016), What is Media Archaeology? (2012), A Geology of Media (2015), and A Slow, Contemporary Violence (2016). Recently, he co-edited Photography Off the Scale (2021) and is the co-author of The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies (2022).  His book Operational Images was published in 2023, and most recently, the co-authored Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (with Abelardo Gil-Fournier) in June 2024. Parikka’s books have been translated into 12 languages including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Czech, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has also worked as curator, including as part of the curatorial team of transmediale 2023 and Helsinki Biennial 2023, as well as the co-curator of the Motores del Clima (Laboral, Gijon, 2023-2045). https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/parikka%40cc.au.dk

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Location & Parking:

UCR ARTS
California Museum of Photography
Culver Center of the Arts
3824 + 3834 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501
ucrarts.ucr.edu

Parking Map

Although UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography is a part of the University of California, Riverside, we are located in downtown Riverside. We are at 3824 and 3834 Main Street, a pedestrian-protected street, between Market St. and Orange St.

We do not have a parking lot but there is generally plenty of parking in surrounding parking decks or street parking. Typically, you can find free parking on the weekends but occasionally there are parking fees due to other events downtown.
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Credits

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World is co-curated by Nikolay Maslov and April Baca. Exhibition concept by Douglas McCulloh.

This symposium is co-presented by University of California, Riverside’s California Museum of Photography, Center for Ideas and Society, History of Art Department, and Media and Cultural Studies Department. Additional support provided by the English Department at UCR. Support for the Inaugural CIS Visiting Professor is generously funded by UCR’s Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Marko Princeva.

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World is made possible with leading support from Getty through the PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative. Programs at UCR ARTS are supported by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) at UCR and by the City of Riverside.