Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

About Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

The Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology is based at Birkbeck, University of London. It supports research projects, hosts related events, and has a range of unique connections to other media research institutions, large and small museums and galleries, and the creative industries. For more information: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari/about/

Publisher

Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jan 2020

Latest episode

22 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Feb 2025

   Paula Bialski Good-Enoughing: Software Work Cultures 12 February 2025

   Professor Paula Bialski presents an ethnographic study of software developers at a corporate tech company, revealing how they negotiate and compromise to make software functional in their work cultures; this is a lecture.

2. 

   10 Nov 2024

   Yuk Hui Machine and Sovereignty Birkbeck 1 November 2024

   Philosopher Yuk Hui presents his new book, Machine and Sovereignty, exploring planetary thinking to address AI, ecological crises, and geopolitical conflicts, followed by dialogue with Joel McKim, Director of the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology in this interview.

3. 

   31 May 2023

   Data Materiality Episode 6: Aylish Wood on Animation and the Materialities of Generative Algorithms

   Professor Emerita Aylish Wood explores the performative materiality of generative algorithms in digital animation and visual culture, revealing the complex negotiations between artists and software, in this interview.

4. 

   27 Nov 2021

   Data Materiality Episode 5: Sam Kinsley on Data, Technicity and the Industrialisation of Memory

   Sam Kinsley, Senior Lecturer, explores the spatial and geographical implications of technology, specifically how digital data and its systems function as industrial-scale memory in this interview with podcast hosts Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers.

5. 

   20 Jul 2021

   Data Materiality Episode 4: Yanni Loukissas on Understanding and Designing Data Settings

   Host Joel McKim interviews Yanni Loukissas, Associate Professor of Digital Media, about his book *All Data are Local* and his unique approaches to critically thinking about data and its materialities.

6. 

   13 Nov 2020

   Data Materiality Episode 3: Paula Bialski on Slow Software, Labour and Ethnographies of Technology

   Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology, explores the impact of digital media on work cultures and communication, focusing on her ethnographic study of software companies and the human elements of digital materiality in this interview.

7. 

   9 Jan 2020

   Data Materiality Episode 2: Shannon Mattern on 5G, Media Materiality, Archaeology and Pedagogy

   Professor Shannon Mattern explores the narratives surrounding 5G technologies, media materiality, and the influence of pedagogy in shaping research, as interviewed by Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers.

8. 

   7 Jan 2020

   Data Materiality Episode 1: Vicki Mayer on Data Centres, Media Aura and Jobs

   Professor Vicki Mayer explores Google's data center construction in the Netherlands, examining its aura and questioning the promised economic benefits in this interview with Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers.

Who has been a guest on Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Paula Bialski
• Yuk Hui
• Aylish Wood
• Sam Kinsley
• Yanni Loukissas

Podcast Authority Score: 3 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

7

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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