The Intermedia Research Studio (IRS) is a research facility for work in and on the interstices between formal media categories: the intermedial. A non-exhaustive list of these categories includes photographs, film, video, audio recordings, advertising, TV, the internet and world wide web, maps, and the built environment. The idiom of intermedia provides a framework for exploring analogue and digital forms of representation from a culturally critical perspective. The Intermedia Research Studio offers a state-of-the art technical infrastructure for accessing, producing, manipulating, and employing media and intermedia in social research.
The IRS is a unit of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. We are open to faculty and graduate students and support a broad range of collaborative and inter-disciplinary projects.
March 30, 2009
Curious chambers of the ordinary: Visualizing Yiwu’s ‘sub-place’, the city as exhibition, and proto-banal materiality
Mon Mar 30 12:00-1:00
Dr. Mark Jackson,
School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol University UK.
Presentation series
The IRS' Bureau for the Investigation of Visual Cultures in conjunction with the Metro Cinema Society presented:
Errol Morris' latest documentary, Standard Operating Procedure
September, 2008
Look out for an upcoming panel on Michael Haneke in March 2009.
IRS Fluxbox
The IRS fluxbox is installed in the East Hall of the HM Tory Building. It features video and audio works by researchers and artists affiliated with the Intermedia Research Studio.
What is intermedia?
Intermedia moves between media, rather than simply combining them. We choose intermedia because it refuses to specify and concretise spurious and convenient boundaries; because when we say visual we are already suffering from a poverty of interpretation; we are eviscerating whole sensory worlds.
And so we make a claim towards Intermedia Sociology with a focus on audio/visual cultures. A two-fold approach to this allows us to both study and analyse while producing intermedially: folding back our representation into our research and allowing for critical reflexivities.
IRS Unit Chief: campbell
