January 18, 2024, 4:00 pm
Goethe University, Campus Westend, Cas 1.812
The digital/affective ecology in contemporary conditions of memory: A Case Study of the AR/VR app MovingMemory
Avishek Parui, IIT Madras
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This talk aims to examine the entanglement of affect and digitality in contemporary conditions of memory and how that corresponds to a digital/affective ecology which is emergent as well as connective in quality. In the process, the talk will highlight how the multimateriality shaping digital ecology that is increasingly internalised and naturalised today produces its unique economy of affect and how the same may be calibrated and illustrated by revisiting some classical tropes in fiction such as focalisation and stream-of-consciousness. Lastly, the talk will refer to MovingMemory, the AR/VR app conceived and curated by Centre for Memory Studies IIT Madras at the second annual international Indian Network for Memory Studies Conference in September 2023, and highlight how humanities and technology research can collaborate and co-create epistemic possibilities through which the memory-ecology in contemporary times may best be experienced, examined, and navigated.
Avishek Parui (PhD, Durham, UK) is an Associate Professor at IIT Madras and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is the author of Postmodern Literatures(Orient Blackswan, 2018), Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), and is currently editing The Indian Handbook of Memory Studies(Brill, forthcoming). He is the Faculty Coordinator at the Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) at IIT Madras and founding chairperson of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS). He is the recipient of Charles Wallace Fellowship (2011), University of St Andrews Global Fellowship (2023), and Durham University Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship (2024).