Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited

Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Department of English, Theatre and Film, organizes: “Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited”. This two-day, International Conference and Exhibition juxtaposes the unique legacies of the phenomenologically-based communication theorist Vilém Flusser, and the media prophet Marshal McLuhan whose play on language and media shaped today’s networked society by coining expressions such as “the medium is the message” and “the global village”. This project also builds off of a past conference ‘Marshall McLuhan Revisited’ organized by Video Pool twenty years ago (see documentation about the project from 1992). The 2012 project incorporates: a major international Conference (with a comprehensive publication), Exhibitions, Screenings and Performance. During this interdisciplinary conference, we will discuss Flusser’s and McLuhan’s ideas from different perspectives and traditions, with an emphasis on the philosophy of media to shed light on the dynamics of new-media today.