Book Launch: Eleni Ikoniadou's The Rhythmic Event — Showroom

ELENI  IKONIADOU's
THE RHYTHMIC EVENT

BOOK LAUNCH
at THE SHOWROOM

on THURSDAY
25 JUNE '15

18h30-21h30

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An event & discussion to celebrate
the publication (MIT Press, 2014).

Speakers include:
Eleni Ikoniadou
Matthew Fuller
Olga Goriunova
Kodwo Eshun

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In The Rhythmic Event, Eleni Ikoniadou seeks ways of redefining the digital media artwork as an assemblage of sensations that outlive the space, time, and bodies that constitute and experience it. Ikoniadou proposes that the notion of rhythm—detached, however, from the idea of counting and regularity—can unlock the imperceptible, aesthetic potential enveloping the digital artwork. She speculates how addressing the event on the level of rhythm affords us a glimpse into the nonhuman modalities of thought, proper to the digital and hidden in the gaps between strict definitions (human/sonic/digital) and false dichotomies (virtual/real).

Operating at the margins of perception, the rhythmic artwork summons an obscure zone of sonic thought, which considers an event according to its power to become.

The Rhythmic Event is part of the Technologies of Lived Abstraction series, edited by Brian Massumi and Erin Manning.


Eleni Ikoniadou is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Kingston University, UK. She is author of The Rhythmic Event (MIT Press, 2014, Technologies of Lived Abstraction series), co-editor of the edited volume Media After Kittler (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015) and co-editor of the Media Philosophy Series (RLI).