Dynamic Media Network

Andrew Murphie and Anna Munster will be mainly posting in this research group. We might be joined by Adrian Mackenzie and Brian Massumi who are partners in our ‘Dynamic Media’ Project – an Australian Research Council funded project that goes until 2010. So, that’s who we are…but what do we do?
We’re hoping to articulate and produce ideas about media that take into account their multi-authored, distributed and dynamically changing qualities. Some of this has to do with technological capacities – cross-signal processing, relational databases, object-oriented programming – but perhaps more has to do with our emerging ‘socio-technical ensemble’ ( as Guattari would say).
Dynamic media, then, has more to do with the multitude of social software, networking, participatory and multi-user generated forms of media now taking hold.
We want to ask – how does this emerging socio-technical ensemble allow for the production of new problems, new practices and new socialities? We also want to try to make dynamic media that creates new problems to be solved, contributes to new collective practices, enunciations and socialities. Watch this space! It may end up looking something like this image…