	{"id":5800,"date":"2018-06-30T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ga-beta.geidai.ac.jp\/?p=5800\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T02:08:16","slug":"paul_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/2018\/06\/30\/paul_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Talk: Dr. Paul Roquet (MIT) <br\/>Peripheral Visions: Ambient Media from Muzak to Mixed Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1459763974009\" >\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"mincho blue\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Special Talk:<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 32px;\">Dr. Paul Roquet (MIT)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Peripheral Visions: Ambient Media from Muzak to Mixed Reality<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong> 10th\u00a0July 2018, Tuesday 16:20-17:50<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Lecture Room 3, Senju Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Dr. Paul Roquet\u00a0(Associate professor of Japanese Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<br \/>\n<strong>Chair:<\/strong> Yoshitaka Mori (Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<br \/>\nAll welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ambieny-media-roquet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5793 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ambieny-media-roquet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ambieny-media-roquet.jpg 388w, https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ambieny-media-roquet-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peripheral Visions:<\/strong><br \/>\nAmbient Media from Muzak to Mixed Reality<\/p>\n<p>Ambient media seek to inhabit a space at the edge of conscious perception, creating moods and influencing behaviors without drawing attention to themselves. Building from the longer history of mediated peripheral perception, this talk examines the cultural politics of ambient media in a context-aware, algorithmic age. Focusing on Japanese artists and developers&#8217; creative engagements with pervasive computing, biometric surveillance, and augmented and virtual realities, this talk seeks to spark a critical inquiry into Japan&#8217;s ambient background: who it is designed for, who controls it, and how it might be transformed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<br \/>\nPaul Roquet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Roquet-river-10-05-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5794 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Roquet-river-10-05-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Roquet-river-10-05-17.jpg 5540w, https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Roquet-river-10-05-17-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Roquet-river-10-05-17-1024x688.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPaul Roquet is associate professor of Japanese Studies at the Massachusetts\u00a0Institute of Technology. His work focuses on issues of perception and emotion in emerging Japanese media, with particular attention to the cultural politics of mediated space. He\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self\u00a0(Minnesota, 2016), a book on the history and theory of mediated atmospheres in Japan and their role in neoliberal forms of self-care. He has also published essays on environmental aesthetics in experimental film, animation, literature, and music. Roquet is currently in Tokyo on a Japan\u00a0Foundation\u00a0Japanese Studies Fellowship, and is completing a book examining Japanese approaches to augmented reality, virtual reality, and the internet of things.<br \/>\n\ufffc<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inquiry:<br \/>\n<\/strong>info-ga(a)ml.geidai.ac.jp<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambient media seek to inhabit a space at the edge of conscious perception, creating moods and influencing behaviors without drawing attention to themselves. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}