Intellect

Reading: Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art, edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman

Friday, June 17, 2011, 7:30 PM,

Women & Children First bookstore,

5233 N. Clark St., Chicago

Speakers: Lori Waxman and Maud Lavin

Click here for more info on the event.

Intellect at the meeting of the International Communication Association

Boston, 25–28 May 2011

It’s happened.  It’s over. We’re all digital now.

Media production and media education have been transformed by the digital in the last ten years.  Back in 1998, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “digital-ness” would just become part of the wallpaper: “Like air and drinking water, being digital will be noticed only by its absence, not its presence”.   But over a decade later, are we “postdigital” yet? Postdigital Encounters is a one-day symposium explores how digital technologies have redefined creativity and media practice within the academy both in terms of teaching and research, with a dynamic programme of presentations ranging from a QR Workshop, multiscreen film practice and locative media projects to discussions of creativity and pedagogy in the postdigital age.

Niagara Falls was the perfect location to host the inaugural Canadian Popular Culture Association Conference. The honeymoon capital of the world is steeped in kitschy culture, from the haunted houses and wax museums of Clifton Hill to the glittering casinos, to the delightful 1930s era motels that still line the outskirts of the city. Intellect was proud to be one of the first publishers to support this new association which investigates not only Canadian culture, but popular culture in all its diverse international forms and manifestations.

In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres such as Shanghai are joining other cities such as Dubai, Moscow, and Mumbai as global fashion capitals. Street Style is a series that explores and reveals the relationship between culture, the city, and the street fashion. Books in the series use a predominantly visual approach (visual ethnography) paired with critical analysis, and are inspired by street fashion blogs, magazines, and other fashion incubators such as internet sites.

Our good pals at the University of Chicago Press have put together a  fabulous slideshow, which is composed of images taken from one of Intellect's latest visual arts titles, Atomic Postcards.

To view some images posted from the edge of danger, click here (but don't forget your sunscreen, they are positively radioactive!).

Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War is available to buy in the UK and will be published next week in North America and the Rest of World.

Intellect is Boston bound for the 61st annual International Communication Association conference 26-29 May at the Westin Waterfront Hotel. Come meet Intellect’s founder, Masoud Yazdani, in the town known for founding fathers. Scholars, working professionals and delegates from across North America, Europe and beyond will be gathering to discuss issues facing communication and media professionals worldwide. Amy will join Masoud in introducing Intellect’s latest titles such as Nico Carpentier’s Media and Participation as well as its well established journals International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics and International Journal of War & Culture.

Please come by our stand to learn more about publishing opportunities or check out the “Publish with Us” section on our website.

Two of our books have been reviewed in Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 89, no.2, April 2011).

Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

By Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky

'...a valuable interpretive tool, providing much needed assistance in navigating the highly heterogeneous landscape of contemporary Russian theatre.' – Elena Siemens, University of Alberta

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters

By Rimgaila Salys

'...a valuable and extremely well-researched contribution that will prove fruitful for
researchers exploring Soviet culture.' – Anna Toropova, UCL SSEES

Join the QUAD Gallery for the launch of All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism on Friday 27th May from 6pm. 

 

Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Simon Sheikh, All That Fits is a thought-provoking exhibition that presents the idea that art and journalism are actually two sides of one activity (the production and distribution of images and information) and explores how this affects our perception of what we are seeing.