"Gaming Utopia", Mellon Postdoc Candidate Talk"Gaming Utopia", Mellon Postdoc Candidate TalkStokes 102 - Humanities Center2013-03-05T16:30:002013-03-05T18:00:00
March 5, 4:30PM
Stokes 102 - Humanities Center
Claudia Pederson is a finalist to be the 2013-15 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Hurford Center for Arts & Humanities. She would participate in the 2013-14 Faculty Seminar, "The Anarchist Tradition, Revisited,” led by Craig Borowiak, Political Science.
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In her work as an art historian, Claudia Pederson focuses her research the ways in which new media arts can re-purpose communication technologies and serve as forms of non-violent activism. Her dissertation, Gaming the System, brought these interests to digital games created by contemporary artists, which she argued act as both transnational cultural critique and disruptions/mobilizations of mainstream networks of global cultural production and distribution. Pederson is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Utopias of Play. In her classes at Ithaca College and Cornell, she focuses on the relationships between art and activism as they apply to modernity and globalization.
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