Global Pop Cultures Research Network
As a part of the Shared Campus cooperation platform, the theme group Pop Cultures is establishing a research network dedicated to the study of global pop cultures. We bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and regions to share and dialogically advance their knowledge. Our aim is to explore and discuss the globalization of pop cultures from a transcultural perspective (Europe and Asia), considering commonalities as well as spatial and historical idiosyncrasies. The uniqueness of the research network resides in the focus on art universities and thus in forms of research close to or interwoven with artistic practices ("practiced-based research", "artistic research"). Our group organizes international conferences such as Global Pop Cultures. Moving Beyond the High-Low, East-West Divide (2019, Kyoto SEIKA university) or online lecture series such as Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation (2020, Shared Campus website).Moreover, we will be launching the Journal of Global Pop Cultures in 2021 (online, peer-reviewed, open access). The journal will release calls for papers annually and publish selected peer-reviewed submissions in thematic editions (multimedia, conventional academic research and artistic research) as well as conference proceedings.
Activities
Pop in the Roaring 1920's. Zelda Fitzgerald, Irmgard Keun, Klaus and Erika Mann
Video Essay by Maren Lickhardt
Writing the Self of Uwe Nettelbeck
Video Essay by Philipp Goll
Writing the Self
The sixth section of the online lecture series "Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation" is curated by Joseph Imorde and Jörg Scheller.
Self-portrait by Other (Autoportrait par autrui)
Essay by Mohomodou Houssouba
How to Disappear Completely – A Practical Guide
Video Essay by David Ritter
Interview with Ayishat Akanbi
Interview with Ayishat Akanbi by Raphael Smarzoch
Hearing Our Bodies: Towards an Uncorseting, Anthropology as Music Practice
Video Presentation and Q & A with Ken Ueno & Takuro Mizuta Lippit
Cosmopolitics in Sound
Video Presentation by Sheryl Cheung
Hearing the Self
The fifth section of the online lecture series "Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation" is curated by Masahiro Yasuda and Takuro Mizuta Lippit.
Voice and Machine
Video presentation by "The Formant Brothers" (Masahiro Miwa and Nobuyasu Sakonda)
19 Vocal Questions
Online Workshop proposed by Wataru Asada
Selfie-Biographies: On Reaction Videos
Q&A with Annekathrin Kohout
Selflessies. A Case for Negative Narcissism
Q&A with Jörg Scheller
It’s Only Stuff
Q&A with Rada Leu
Buried
Q&A with UCNV
Picturing the Self
The fourth section of the online lecture series "Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation" is curated by Jörg Scheller.
Sagar Mitchell & James Kenyon: Edwardian cinema as social media
Q&A with Richard Reynolds
At Home – The Visual Culture of Privacy
Q&A with Joseph Imorde
From Purikura to SNS Selfies. Digital Photography and Japanese Popular Culture
Q&A with Morihiro Satow
Staging the Self
The third section of the online lecture series "Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation" is curated by Daniel Späti.
NO I SELF – Betty Apple's Transcoding Game of Ideology
Performances by and Q&A with Betty Apple
Where are the Stages?
Q&A with Björn Beneditz
On Music Streaming: The Consumer as a Spectre of the Romantic Artist Self
Q&A with Tobi Müller
Resemblage. How Virtual Reality is Progressively Deconstructing the Self in the Art of a Fabricated Instagram Persona, David Nobody.
Q&A with David Henry Brown Jr.
Blocking the Void and Filling the Bridges – On the Staging of Conflict and Activist Selves in Contemporary Protest Cultures
Q&A with Jorinde Schulz
The Shared Presentation “Babel”
Q&A with Yae Akaiwa & Kensuke Sembo
Neuromedia and the Self: Online talk and discussion
Online talk and discussion with Professor Dr Jill Scott
The Self in the Mind’s Eye: An illustrated talk with Q&A
Illustrated talk with Q&A with Professor Manos Tsakiris
Curiosity: Music and Immersive scientific exploration
Interview with Professor Kelly Snook
Creative Identities across Art and Science
The second section of the online lecture series "Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation" is curated by Richard Reynolds.
Chips, Couch and Crisis.The design of the eating protagonist
Q&A with Laura Haensler
Self-reflection in manga by "foreign" artists
Q&A with Ito Yu and Yoo Sookyung
How to design post-binary gender images? Impulses for creating an inclusive world
Q&A with Larissa Holaschke
Statement Nails. Female fingertips as a tool of self-empowerment
Q&A with Judith Mair
Beauty in techno-expressive times — extended (posthuman) beauty and bodies.
Q&A with Claudia Rafael
Designing the Self
The first section of the online lecture series "Self-Imaging: Identity, Disruption, Transformation" is curated by Judith Mair.
Visual identities. The digital looking-glass self.
Q&A with Francis Müller
Bizarre Bodies. Digital Body Identities.
Q&A with Irena Srdanovic
Can the hoodie ever be truly unisex? New narratives for an inconspicuous streetwear item.
Q&A with Chinouk Filique
