Henry Adam Svec
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1362574 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Henry Adam Svec |
| PRENOMES | Henry Adam |
| SOBRENOME | Svec |
| ASSINATURA | SVEC H A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4079-5584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Through the digits, through the fingers”
This article considers artistic engagements with string figure performance and collection as ‘imaginary’ articulations of digital media. As an object of anthropological inquiry, the string figure emerges in 1888 with a short paper by Franz Boas. Encouraged by more mainstream publications by Caroline Furness Jansen (2008) and Kathleen Haddon (1930), over the course of the 20th century the string figure would become a model through which largely we…
Taking Care of Authenticity on the CBC’s Randy’s Vinyl Tap
This essay explores the radio program Randy’s Vinyl Tap, which is hosted by Randy Bachman and airs on CBC Radio 1 (2005-present). I argue that the show’s complex reception can be explained, in part, by the fact that it transgresses dominant conceptions of authenticity in both rock music and public broadcasting discourses. Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, I explore ways in which Bachman evokes a “carnivalesque” approach to public communicat…
Ther Is a Very Insistent Noise From the Machines in Here”
Background This article explores the Canadian artist Greg Curnoe’s experiments with computer-based composition with an emphasis on the Computer Journals project (1969–1971). The Computer Journals project is situated in relation to the art scene in London, Ontario, the development of computer art during the late 1960s, and contemporary theories of technology and culture. Analysis It is argued that the project elaborates an innovative analysis of t…
Buzzing Lines of Flight
This audio-essay explores the relationship between soundscape recordings and property. Three field recordings of the author's family fruit farm examine the emplacement and territorialization of sound but also the means by which certain signals might dislocate the discourses of ownership; stereo recordings of the acreage have been displaced by a more connective topology, courtesy of the beehives. The accompanying essay deploys an auto-ethnographic…
Media Hoaxing
Radio’s New Wave
Pete Seeger's Mediatized Folk
On Dallas Smythe’s “Audience Commodity”
This interview with Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzerolle explores some concepts and debates charted by their new co-edited book, The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media, which both celebrates and scrutinizes Dallas Smythe’s canonical 1977 essay, “Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism”. The discussion covers Smythe’s contribution to the field of media studies and the state of current debates …
Brando versus Franco
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHenry Adam SvecHenry Adam Svec recently completed his PhD in Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include the concept of authenticity and media theory, and his work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Popular Music & Society, Loading..., and Reviews in Cultural Theory
Folk Media
This article reconsiders American folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax as a medium theorist. I examine how Lomax’s engagement first with the phonograph and then with digital computers came to inflect his understanding of “the folk” (or at least how this tendency is inscribed across his writings and projects). I also use Lomax’s engagement with media to critique aspects of German media theorist Friedrich Kittler’s work. I argue that Lomax’s “deep…
What is media archeology
Who Don't Care If The Money's No Good?”
This article explores how The Band's complicated relationship to divergent notions of authenticity has grounded the means by which Robbie Robertson is marked off from the rest of the group across the history of their star discourse. The author also considers the recent resurgence of The Last Waltz by examining the ways in which the film's performances, and texts about them, engage with what Andrew Wernick has called "promotional culture," ultimat…
The purpose of these acting exercises
Celebrity studies has paid attention to the post-modernisation of identity in contemporary celebrity culture; but the ways in which modern discourses of acting-as-work have persisted vis-à-vis larger socio-cultural shifts in both labour and self-performance deserve closer attention. Drawing upon the work of Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello and Ernest Sternberg, this essay explores the shifting styles of self-presentation that are bound up with the…
What is media archeology
The purpose of these acting exercises
Celebrity studies has paid attention to the post-modernisation of identity in contemporary celebrity culture; but the ways in which modern discourses of acting-as-work have persisted vis-à-vis larger socio-cultural shifts in both labour and self-performance deserve closer attention. Drawing upon the work of Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello and Ernest Sternberg, this essay explores the shifting styles of self-presentation that are bound up with the…
The purpose of these acting exercises
Celebrity studies has paid attention to the post-modernisation of identity in contemporary celebrity culture; but the ways in which modern discourses of acting-as-work have persisted vis-à-vis larger socio-cultural shifts in both labour and self-performance deserve closer attention. Drawing upon the work of Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello and Ernest Sternberg, this essay explores the shifting styles of self-presentation that are bound up with the…
Who Don't Care If The Money's No Good?”
This article explores how The Band's complicated relationship to divergent notions of authenticity has grounded the means by which Robbie Robertson is marked off from the rest of the group across the history of their star discourse. The author also considers the recent resurgence of The Last Waltz by examining the ways in which the film's performances, and texts about them, engage with what Andrew Wernick has called "promotional culture," ultimat…
Folk Media
This article reconsiders American folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax as a medium theorist. I examine how Lomax’s engagement first with the phonograph and then with digital computers came to inflect his understanding of “the folk” (or at least how this tendency is inscribed across his writings and projects). I also use Lomax’s engagement with media to critique aspects of German media theorist Friedrich Kittler’s work. I argue that Lomax’s “deep…
What is media archeology
Brando versus Franco
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHenry Adam SvecHenry Adam Svec recently completed his PhD in Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include the concept of authenticity and media theory, and his work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Popular Music & Society, Loading..., and Reviews in Cultural Theory
Pete Seeger's Mediatized Folk
On Dallas Smythe’s “Audience Commodity”
This interview with Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzerolle explores some concepts and debates charted by their new co-edited book, The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media, which both celebrates and scrutinizes Dallas Smythe’s canonical 1977 essay, “Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism”. The discussion covers Smythe’s contribution to the field of media studies and the state of current debates …
Radio’s New Wave
Media Hoaxing
Taking Care of Authenticity on the CBC’s Randy’s Vinyl Tap
This essay explores the radio program Randy’s Vinyl Tap, which is hosted by Randy Bachman and airs on CBC Radio 1 (2005-present). I argue that the show’s complex reception can be explained, in part, by the fact that it transgresses dominant conceptions of authenticity in both rock music and public broadcasting discourses. Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, I explore ways in which Bachman evokes a “carnivalesque” approach to public communicat…
Ther Is a Very Insistent Noise From the Machines in Here”
Background This article explores the Canadian artist Greg Curnoe’s experiments with computer-based composition with an emphasis on the Computer Journals project (1969–1971). The Computer Journals project is situated in relation to the art scene in London, Ontario, the development of computer art during the late 1960s, and contemporary theories of technology and culture. Analysis It is argued that the project elaborates an innovative analysis of t…
Buzzing Lines of Flight
This audio-essay explores the relationship between soundscape recordings and property. Three field recordings of the author's family fruit farm examine the emplacement and territorialization of sound but also the means by which certain signals might dislocate the discourses of ownership; stereo recordings of the acreage have been displaced by a more connective topology, courtesy of the beehives. The accompanying essay deploys an auto-ethnographic…
“Through the digits, through the fingers”
This article considers artistic engagements with string figure performance and collection as ‘imaginary’ articulations of digital media. As an object of anthropological inquiry, the string figure emerges in 1888 with a short paper by Franz Boas. Encouraged by more mainstream publications by Caroline Furness Jansen (2008) and Kathleen Haddon (1930), over the course of the 20th century the string figure would become a model through which largely we…
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