Text to Speech: “Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents” by Lisa Gitelman

Jan 9, 2019
Field:

Workshop

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

7:00 p.m.

Description:

Presented as part of Text to Speech, artist-in-residence Chris Lee led a reading group on select texts from Lisa Gitelman’s book Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (2014). 

Text to Speech was a reading group series that focused on texts about media, media art, and the surrounding concepts and frameworks of the mediated world. Facilitated by guest artists and curators, each Text to Speech session involved collective readings, group discussions, and analyses of select texts.

Related Events

Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.