Dupes of Non-Physical

{{{[Event]   MCLUHAN YEAR IN CYBERGARDEN
[Location/City] Katowice, Poland
[Date] 1 January–31 December
[Website] http://www.mcluhaninstitute.pl
The CyberGarden is a new media project for Katowice, the capital of Upper Silesia, connected with media education, information literacy and accessibility of public space. It is a series of lectures, workshops, seminars and artistic projects dedicated for children, youth and elderly people.


[Event]   TRANSMEDIALE - FESTIVAL FOR ART AND DIGITAL CULTURE BERLIN
[Location/City] House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
[Date] February 1–6
[Website] http://www.transmediale.de
Transmediale, Germany's leading festival for media culture will be presenting and debating McLuhan's COUNTERBLAST: in the context of radical and open forms of global network practice, and the cultures of code


[Event]  TRANSMEDIALE MARSHALL MCLUHAN LECTURE 2011
[Location/City] Marshall McLuhan Salon / Embassy of Canada, Berlin, Germany
[Date] February 2
[Website] http://www.transmediale.de
The prestigious yearly transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture features Mark Surman, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation.


[Event]   BERLINALE – FORUM EXPANDED
[Location/City] Berlin, Germany
[Date] February 12–20
[Website] http://www.berlinale.de
Berlin's premiere Film Festival will be hosting special programs celebrating
Marshall McLuhan's legacy vis-a-vis the history and language of cinema.


[Event]   COMMUNICATION MAKES THE NATION A COMPARISON BETWEEN ITALIAN, CANADIAN AND USA MODELS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES
[Location/City] Bologna and Ravenna, IT
[Date] March 24–26
[Website] http://marconigalaxy.net
The scholarly goal of this symposium is to learn from McLuhan’s experience and probe the role that old and new media have in moulding identities at both the local and the global level.


[Event]   FIGURE-GROUND SHIFTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
[Organizer] University of Toronto Art Centre, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Coach House Institute (Faculty of Information, University of Toronto), Scotiabank CONTACT Photography festival
[Location/City] Toronto
[Date] May
[Website] http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/, http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/, http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/
Image making, conceptual narratives and art installations will probe the relationship figure/ground during the 2011 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.


[Event]   FUTUREEVERYTHING
[Organizer] Università Degli Studi Di Bologna
[Location/City] Manchester, UK
[Date] May 11–14
[Website] http://futureeverything.org
FutureEverything is the UK’s premiere festival of art, music and ideas, taking place annually in Manchester, UK. FutureEverything 2011 will feature conference content focused on McLuhan’s ideas.


[Event]   MCLUHAN'S GLOBAL VILLAGE TODAY: TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIUM AND MESSAGE
[Location/City] University of Marburg, Germany
[Date] May 12–14
[Website] http://www.uni-marburg.de/mzks
This conference is the annual Canadian Literature/Studies conference of the Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies (Marburger Zentrum für Kanada-Studien).


[Event]  CONFERENCE "TRANSGRESSING THE SENSES. CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOMIND"
[Location/City] Katowice, Poland
[Date] 19–21 May
[Website] http://www.mcluhaninstitute.pl
The conference is an interdisciplinary set of sessions dedicated to the problem of changing senses and human perception in the context of new technologies.


[Event]   EXHIBITION "HOMMAGE À MCLUHAN"
[Location/City] Katowice, Poland
[Date]  19 May–21 July
[Website] http://www.mcluhaninstitute.pl
The cyberart exhibition collects works showing the connections and paradoxes between the oral, typographic and digital type of culture.


[Event]   UNDERSTANDING MEDIA TODAY
[Location/City] Barcelona, Spain & Rome, Italy
[Date]  May 23–25 (Barcelona), May 30–June 1 (Rome)
Distinguished McLuhan scholar Derrick de Kerckhove chairs this academic conference featuring speakers from Europe as well as North and South America.


[Event]   THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE - RE-TOUCHING MCLUHAN
[Location/City] Marshall McLuhan Salon/Embassy of Canada, Berlin, Germany
[Date] Conference May 28, Berlin events May 26–29
[Website] http://www.mcluhan-salon.de
Conference co-chaired by Dieter Daniels and Chris Salter will explore Marshall McLuhan's unique take on the tactile nature of media and broadcast communication.


[Event]   DOORS OPEN ON MCLUHAN’S UNIVERSITY
[Organizer] Doors Open Toronto, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Coach House Institute (Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto), Library & Archives Canada
[Location/City] Toronto
[Date] May 28–29
[Website] http://www.toronto.ca/doorsopen/, http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/
Web-based scholarly conversations and correlated physical tours of cultural, social and scholarly significance open doors to the city and the university where McLuhan’s ideas were discussed and taught, inscribing buildings, including the University of Toronto Coach House and iSchool, to mark Marshall McLuhan and the Toronto School of Communication’s “happenings”.


[Event]   THROUGH THE VANISHING POINT
[Location/City] Marshall McLuhan Salon / Embassy of Canada, Berlin, Germany
[Date] Opening/Reception May 27, exhibition until August 31
[Website] http://www.mcluhan-salon.de
Site specific multi-media installation by Canadian artists David Rokeby and Lewis Kaye draws on Marshall McLuhan's 1968 book which explores the way electronic media fragments the homogenous experience of space.


[Event]  PLAY MCLUHAN – DIALOGUES / OBJECTS / ENVIRONMENTS / SOUNDSCAPES
[Location/City] Mediencampus Dieburg of Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany in cooperation with the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
[Date] From June 2
[Website] http://www.media.h-da.de/mcluhan
Exhibition, under the direction of Prof. Sabine Breitsameter (Sound and Media Culture), reflecting, filtering, testing and playing on central aspects of McLuhan’s theory “embodying” his ideas by relating them to production methods, strategies and topics of the digital age, which McLuhan himself was no more able to experience to its full extent.


[Event]  MEDIA MIX: COMMUNICATIONS IN THE AGE OF MCLUHAN
[Organizer] Canada Museum of Science and Technology, Library and Archives Canada [LAC], The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Coach House Institute (Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto)
[Location/City] Ottawa
[Date] July–December
[Website] http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/, http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/
Media Mix reconceives the museum as McLuhan’s “electric information environment” providing a new layer of interpretation of communication artefacts showcased at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and beyond.


[Event]  MCLUHAN'S GALAXY
[Location/City] ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
[Date] July 2–October 3/exhibition opening on July 1
[Website] http://www.zkm.de
This exhibition presents key ideas by Marshall McLuhan supported viaa audio visual documents excerpted from ZKM's extensive collections.


[Event]  REWIRE – MEDIA ART HISTORIES CONFERENCE
[Location/City] Liverpool, UK
[Date] September 29–October 2
[Website] http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, the conference series on the Histories of Media Art examines the history of media art within interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts.


[Event]  A “MCLUHANESQUE” NUIT BLANCHE
[Organizer] The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Coach House Institute (Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto), The University of Toronto Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
[Location/City] Toronto
[Date] October 1st
[Website] http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/, http://www.jmbgallery.ca/exhibitions.html
[Contacts] mcluhan.program@utoronto.ca, jmb.gallery@utoronto.ca
McLuhanesque narratives probing micro histories and micro geographies of the Toronto scene in the 60’s and 70’s across the University of Toronto campus and the city of Toronto.


[Event]   SKRYPTION MUSEUM & HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM
[Location/City] Tilburg, Netherlands
[Date] October 5
[Website] http://scryption.nl/
Two activities hosted by Skryption and Hogeschool van Amsterdam will be an exhibition and a symposium on the theme of McLuhan and contemporary society with an emphasis on higher applied education and research.


[Event]   MCLUHAN’S EFFECTS THEN AND NOW
[Organizer] Greater Toronto educational institutions, among which the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University and the Ontario College of Art & Design University.
[Location/City] Toronto
[Date] October 10–15, 2011
[Contacts] mcluhan.program@utoronto.ca
A coordinated series of centennial conferences, workshops and associated artistic events capturing Toronto post secondary institutions’ diverse and plural scholarly investigations on the impact of digital and unstable media on society and culture.


[Event]  MCLUHAN CENTURY
[Organizer] City of Toronto, International Festival of Authors (Toronto), The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the Coach House Institute (Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto), Library & Archives Canada.
[Location/City] Toronto and Frankfurt
[Date] October 12–29 2011
[Website] http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/
Book readings, poetry slam sessions and art installations, among which a fully-illustrated portfolio on McLuhan’s communications practice based on the McLuhan fonds in Library & Archives Canada, are providing new insights on Marshall McLuhan’s texts.


[Event]   FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR
[Location/City] Frankfurt, Germany
[Date] October 12–16
[Website] http://buchmesse.de
Gingko Press will be present and showcasing McLuhan's works at the world's largest trade fair for the publishing industry.


[Event]  MCLUHAN'S PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIA CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
[Location/City] Brussels, Belgium
[Date] October 26–28
[Website] http://mcluhancentennial.eu
An interdisciplinary academic conference organized by the Centre for Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology -Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.


[Event]  R. MURRAY SCHAFER & HERBERT MARSHALL MCLUHAN:
CONNECTIONS, LINKS, OPPOSITIONS – LECTURE BY PROF. SABINE BREITSAMETER
[Location/City] Hochschule Darmstadt/Faculty of Media, Germany
[Date] October 27
[Website] http://www.media.h-da.de/mcluhan


[Event]   STRATEGIC ARTS INITIATIVE – S.A.I. 2.0
[Location/City] various locations Canada – Europe
[Date] Exhibition: October 29–November 10
[Website] http://www.interaccess.org
This show linking interactive artworks across the globe is a 21st Century retooling of the ground breaking 1986 event initiated as an artistic response to the Ronald Reagan's SDI Program.}}}


Bob Dobbs