Reimagining Communication: Mediation

Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation.Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and a Communications Instructor at Columbia College – both in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human-computer interaction and communication. Sport shapes the essence of her research which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.

• Media Archaeology and Mediation: the Magic Lantern as an Object of Theoretical Reflection; Intangible Photography ; Cinema Studies ; Video: Aesthetics/Agonism/Anti-dialectics ; Uneasy Intimacies: Acoustic Space and Machines of Presence; Ante-Narrative and the Animated Time Image; The Medium of Comics; or the Art of Co-Presence; Visualizing the News: Conceptual Foundations and Emerging Technology; Facilitating communicative environments:; An exploration of game modalities as facilitators of prosocial change; Augmented Reality ; Social Media; The Rise of Consumer Generated Content and Its Transformative Effect on Advertising; Music in Streams: Communicating Music in the Streaming Paradigm; Digital Copyright ; Reimagining copies in digital networks; Questioning algorithms and agency: facial biometrics in algorithmic contexts; Digital Privacy & Interdisciplinarity: Tendencies, Problems, and Possibilities; Reimagining Communication with Conversational User Interfaces: Anthropomorphic Design and Conversational User Experience; Brain Computer Interface; ;