Join us on Thursday, Jun 26th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the second RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Maxime Le Calvé will present his work on “An Anthropology of/with Virtual Reality. Digital Ethnographic Experiments with Active Materiality”.
As part of the RUSTlab lecture series, Maxime Le Calvé presents his monograph An Anthropology of/with Virtual Reality, an exploration of VR not as a medium for escape or content delivery, but as a site for collaborative performance and ethnographic invention. The book unfolds from within the making of immersive installations in artistic and scientific contexts – not studying VR from the outside, but working with it to stage forms of knowing, sensing und relating.
Maxime Le Calvé is a multimodal anthropologist. He works at the intersection of medical technology, design research, art and science. Currently, Le Calvé is a research associate and co-lead of the project “Cutting” at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt University in Berlin, and co-founder of the Speculative Realities Lab (University Hospital of the Charité). In his latest ethnographic project, he explores haptic creativities and neurosurgery cartographic practices.
Location: on campus (MB 4/165) and Zoom
Zoom Link
PW: RUSTlab
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