Faculty of Humanities
M.J. Dieter
M.J. Dieter
Capaciteitsgroep Mediastudies University of Amsterdam


Turfdraagsterpad 1
1012 XT Amsterdam

Room: 2.14

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.j.dieter/
Email



Michael Dieter - UvA

Forthcoming Presentations

'Reticular Aesthetics: Adversarial Media Art after the Material Turn', International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) (September 2011, Istanbul), http://doc.gold.ac.uk/isea2011/ocs/index.php/isea2011/Istanbul/paper/view/1526

'Critical Ecomedia', Media Art Histories: REWIRE (September 2011, Liverpool)


Refereed Publications

'The Becoming Environmental of Power: Tactical Media After Control', Fibreculture Journal [forthcoming 2011]

'Issues, Processes, AIR: Toward Reticular Politics', Australian Humanities Review 46 (2009), http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-May-2009/dieter.htm

'Amazon Noir: Piracy, Distribution, Control', M/C Journal 10.5 (2007),http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0710/07-dieter.php

'Notes on Hardware Archaeology and 8-Bit Video Game Modification', Civics, Communication, Industry - ANZCA2007 Conference Proceedings (2007), http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ANZCA2007/proceedings/Dieter.pdf
 

Book Chapters

'8-Bit', in Jan Simons (ed.) Counterplay, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press [forthcoming 2011]

'Contingent Operations: Reticular Aesthetics, Transduction, and the EKMRZ Trilogy', in Mark Nunes (ed.) Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures, New York and London: Continuum, 2010, pp. 187-209.


Edited Journals

w/ Thomas Apperley, Fibreculture 16 (2010), special issue on 'Counterplay', http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-16-counterplay/


Conference Papers and Presentations

'Untying the Machinic Knot: General Intellect, Open Hardware, Ecologies of Practice', What Is Post-Autonomia Today? (May 2011, Amsterdam)

'General Intellect and the Ecology of Practices', More-Than-Human Modes of Inquiry (November 2008, University of New South Wales, Sydney)

'Database Portraits', International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) (July and August 2008, Singapore)

'Objects and Organization: Rethinking the Conceptual Limits of Networks', Sustaining Culture: The Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) Annual Conference (December 2007, The University of South Australia, Adelaide)

'8-Bit', at All Your Base Are Belong to Us! Videogames and Play in the Information Age (September 2007, The University of Melbourne)

'Amazon Noir: Transduction, Piracy, Control', at Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium (July 2007, The University of Melbourne)

'Hardware Archaeology and 8-Bit Videogame Modification', at Australian New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) – Civics, Communication, Industry (July 2007, The University of Melbourne)

'Open Cartographies: On Assembling Things Through Locative Media', at New Network Theory (June 2007, Institute of Network Cultures/UvA, Amsterdam)

'Teaching Net Communication', (with Thomas Apperley) at Digital Showcase: Research Synergies and Emerging Digital Technologies Symposium (April 2007, The University of Melbourne)

'Objective Memories', at Flux: The University of Melbourne School of Art History, Cinema, Classics, and Archeology Conference (November 2006, The University of Melbourne)

'Peer-to-Peer Pressure: Filetrading, Multitude and the Promise of Radical Democracy', at Imagining the Future: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction (December 2005, The University of Monash)
 

Other Writings

w/ Thomas Apperley, 'Counterplay: Editorial', Fibreculture Journal 16 (2010), http://sixteen.fibreculturejournal.org/issue-16-counterplay/

'Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum', Neural 31 (2008): 7-10.
  
'cyclone.soc', catalogue text for Atmos: Weather as Media, curated by Janine Randerson, Mic Toi Rerehiko, Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre, Auckland, 2008.

'Review of Tom Corby (ed.) "Network Art: Practicesand Positions", Animation 3.2 (2008): 207-211.

w/ Nicole Heber, ‘Paper and Pixels in Love: An Email Interview with Alessandro Ludovico’, antiTHESIS 18 (2008): 82-90; posted on nettime mailing list, http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0806/msg00002.html  

‘Review of Michele White’s “The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship”’, Media Information Australia 124 (2007): 198-200.
  
‘Open Cartographies: On Assembling Things Through Locative Media’, New Network Theory Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007, http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/27.pdf

w/ Amelia Johns and Beornn McCarthy, ‘A Forgetting That Fails to Forget Itself: Interview with Peter Krapp’, antiTHESIS 17 (2007): 115-125.

‘Review of McKenzie Wark’s “A Hacker Manifesto”’, Cultural Studies Review 12.1 (2006): 218-221.

‘Review of Tiziana Terranova’s “Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age”’, antiTHESIS 16 (2006): 196-198.

UvA Teaching 2011-2012


Undergraduate


Analyse New Media 1 & 2
BA-onderzoekswerkgroep - Affect Theory

Graduate

New Media Theories
MA-themacollege - Critical Media Art

MA-theses supervision

Professional Positions


2011, Editorial Member of Query: Journal of Critical Internet Studies

2009 - 2011, Editorial Member of Digital Culture & Education, http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/

2008 - 2011, Editorial Member of Fibreculture Journal, http://www.fibreculture.org

2008 - 2011, Contributing Books Reviewer, Neural, http://www.neural.it

2007 - 2010, Editorial Assistant (Studies in Network Culture and INC Readers), Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2005 - 2006, Co-Editor, antiTHESIS: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Journal, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne          

2005, Reviews Editor, antiTHESIS: Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Journal, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne