Tag: video

Cognitive Media

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8x3V-sUgU]Evgeny Morozov: “The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?”

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g]Slavoj Zizek: “First as Tragedy, then as Farce”

Following up on the video of Iain McGilchrist’s talk on “The Divided Brain,” which I posted earlier, I have discovered that Andrew Park’s animation studio Cognitive Media has produced a number of great animations for talks by a range of interesting speakers, including these by Evgeny Morozov and Slavoj Zizek.

The Divided Brain

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI&w=640&h=360]

Fascinating video: not sure about all the connections drawn between cognitive and social structures, but the animation alone (by artist Andrew Park) justifies taking the time to listen to (and watch!) this talk by Iain McGilchrist.

Shane Denson, “Media Crisis, Serial Chains, and the Mediation of Change”

Back in June, I posted a screencast video of “Frame, Sequence, Medium: Comics in Plurimedial and Transnational Perspective,” a presentation I gave at the German Association for American Studies 2011 annual conference in Regensburg. This got me thinking about making screencast versions of other talks I’ve given. Here is one for a talk entitled “Media Crisis, Serial Chains, and the Mediation of Change: Frankenstein on Film,” which I gave at the American Studies Association annual conference in San Antonio, Texas on November 19, 2010.