Dr Gauti Sigthorsson
Teaching:
Undergraduate:
MEDS1038 Media Theory and Representation
BUSI1481 Working in Media and Creative Industries
COGA1005 Dissertation (co-ordinator)
Postgraduate:
MEDS1114 Digital Culture and Industry (Term 1)
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
Admissions Tutor
Tel: 020 8331 8942
Email: g.sigthorsson@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 236
Office Hours 2009-2010:
- Mondays: 1-3pm by appointment
- Tuesdays 12-3pm
I lecture on screen media, media theory and creative industries in the Department of Communication and Creative Arts. I also work on the Upstart programme, supporting entrepreneurship in the creative industries.
My research is on the history of digital culture, media practices and the business of media and communication. At present I am co-authoring a book on the creative industries and work in the digital economy.
For more, see my blog Concept Bin, my profile on Academia.edu, or keep up with my feeds on Twitter: conceptbin, Working in Media and Creative Industries.
Recent Publications
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2009. "Narrative Commodity: deCODE Genetics and the Product to Come," in Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski, Frans Prenkert, Enrico Baraldi, eds. Use Of Science And Technology in Business: Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations, and People. Bingley: Emerald. ISBN: 978-1-84855-474-0. (Amazon link)
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2008. "Sensation for Sensation's Sake: Art and the Temptation of 'Wow!'" Sjonauki Art Magazine, no. 3. ISSN: 1670-7311. (Republished online in Alba no. 3, 2009)
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2006. "Leibniz Sends an e-mail: On the Genealogy of Software Studies." International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 81-86. ISSN 1832-3669 (Print).
Gauti Sigthorsson. "Copy/Paste: The Joys of Plagiarism." M/C Journal 8.3 (2005). 05 Jul. 2005 . ISSN: 1441-2616
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2005. "The Pleasures of Anonymity" in Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics 1, pp. 73-82. ISBN: 0955003709.
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2004. "Going all the Way with Michel Houellebecq: Platform and the Working Bodies of Global Tourism". In Thomas Duschlberger, ed., leid.geprüft: Contributions to our Contemporary Culture of Renunciation. Linz: GFAT 2004, pp. 88-100. ISBN: 3901815252.
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2004. A Life of the Dead: Privacy, Data Subjects and Labor. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Minnesota. Published via ProQuest, UMI no. 3121846.
Gauti Sigthorsson. 2004. [In Icelandic] "Millifærslur og milliverur" ["Interchanges and inter-beings," an essay on the Icelandic translation of Deleuze and Guattari's Rhizome]. Hugur no. 16, pp. 256-264. ISBN: 9979546034.
Recent Conference Papers and Lectures
"Heavy Cultural Industries" at ECREA Conference 2009: Media, Communication and the Spectacle. Erasmus University, Rotterdam. 25-27 Nov 2009.
"The Creative Masses of Digital Britain" at Transforming Audiences 2, University of Westminster, London, 3-4 September 2009.
"Open Sourcing the Cultural Commons." Invited speaker at The Future is Here, Are We Ready? Conference organized by Upplýsing, The Icelandic Association of Library and Information Science, The University of Iceland, Department of Library and Information Studies and The Association of Directors of Public Libraries in Iceland. Reykjavik, 22-24 October 2008.
"Home is Where My Archive is." Screen Studies Conference 2008, University of Glasgow. 4-6 July 2008. [Audio recording available here]
"Acoustic Pockets of the Outside" presentation on "Musical Interfaces" panel. Futuresonic 2008: Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas. Manchester, 1-5 May 2008.
"I wanna be a protocol: Online media and electronic structures of kinship" presentation. Seminar: "The Anxiety of Immanence" at ACLA 2008, Long Beach, CA, USA. 25 April 2008.
Keynote speaker and panelist, "Broadcasting and narrowcasting" ["Fjölmiðlar og fámiðlar"]. Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavik, Iceland, 18 March 2008.
Panelist on "DIY? We're doing it already, thanks" and moderator on "The Stranger in the Crowd: Fans shout back". Panels at In The City 2007. Manchester, UK, 20-22 October 2007.
"The Catford Riddim on the 202" at INTER: A European Cultural Studies Conference. Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), Linkoping, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007.
"Provocation: The Catford Riddim on the 202," at Camouflage, International Symposium on Media Arts and Philosophy, British Library, London, 19 May 2007 (see blog entry).
"Second Life and E-learning." Presentation at My So-Called 2nd Life seminar, New Media Knowledge (NMK), London, 24 Oct 2006.
"Platform, Protocol, Subject." Presented on, and co-ordinated, the panel "The Body in the Digital" at the ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting, The Human and its Others. Princeton University, Princeton (New Jersey, USA), 23-26 March 2006
"Database Ethics: The Body in the Digital." Presentation at the Open Forum of the conference Forensic Futures: Interrogating the Posthuman Subject. Birkbeck College, London, 16-18 March 2006.
"The Story of the Database." Uses of Technology and Science Symposium. Sponsors: BI Norwegian School of Management, and the Uppsala University STS (Science and Technology Studies) Center. Oslo, Norway, 28-30 October 2005.
"Playing with the Interface" at Interfacing Orality and Literacy. Sponsored by the ACUME Europan Thematic Network. Cardiff 9-10 September 2005.
"Linkage: On the Logic of Anonymous Social Networks" at the International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society. 18-20 February 2005, University of Berkeley, California.