Orpheus Institute welcomes David Savat as visiting researcher
News May 22, 2017Following several meetings with Paulo de Assis (Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute) David Savat accepted the invitation to take up a position as visiting researcher at the Orpheus Institute.
He will be working from 17 May until 14 June and from 13 to 24 November with Paulo de Assis (MusicExperiment21 research cluster), as they share an interest in the work of Gilles Deleuze. Dr Savat will also work closely with Jonathan Impett in the Music, Thought and Technology (MTT) research cluster. David Savat is a lecturer and former discipline chair of Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth (Australia), executive editor of the journal Deleuze Studies journal, published by Edinburgh University Press, as well as series editor of Bloomsbury’s Schizoanalytic Applications series.
While his disciplinary background is not in music, he has published a number of texts in media studies, including Uncoding the Digital and, most recently with Tauel Harper, Media After Deleuze. His work aligns with key aspects of both the Music, Thought and Technology (MTT) and MusicExperiment21 research cluster at the Orpheus Research Centre. David Savat completed his doctoral studies in 2004 at the Murdoch University in Australia. His current research focuses on the conceptualisation of technology and on game design, including the notion of play. His aim in visiting the Orpheus Institute is to explore the process of experimentation, as part of an exploration of play more generally, with a view to give insight into how new possibilities can emerge. One outcome of the collaboration will be a special issue of Deleuze Studies in the context of DARE2017 (international conference on Deleuze and artistic research).
I hope that my interdisciplinary research focus on technology and play, as well as my knowledge of Deleuze’s work, can make a meaningful contribution to the Orpheus Research Centre's work and to the work of some of its researchers and artists.
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Links
http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/dls
http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/series/schizoanalytic-applications/
Publications
· Savat, David (Forthcoming) ‘Deleuze, Guattari, and schizoanalysis: Approaching a Method’ in Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Politics, Buchanan I., Svirsky M. (Eds.) (Bloomsbury: London)
· Savat, David and Chau, Christina (2017) ‘Anxious Robots, Desiring Repression, Generating Profit.’ Transformations 29.
· Savat, David and Harper, Tauel (2016) Media After Deleuze (Bloomsbury: London)
· Savat, David and Thompson, Gregg (2015) (eds) Deleuze Studies, V.9, No.3
· Savat, David and Thompson Gregg (2015) ‘Deleuze. Guattari. Schizoanalysis. Education.’ Deleuze Studies, V.9, No.3 (book issue)
· Savat, David (2013) Uncoding the Digital: Technology, Subjectivity and Action in the Control Society, Palgrave Macmillan
· Savat, David (2010) ‘(Dis)Connected: Deleuze’s Superject and the Internet’ in The International Handbook of Internet Research Hunsinger J. Klastrup L., and Allen M. (Eds.) Springer
· Poster, Mark and Savat, David (Eds.), (2009) Deleuze and New Technology Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
· Savat, David (2009) ‘Introduction: Deleuze and New Technology’ in Deleuze and New Technology Poster M., Savat, D. (Eds.) Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
· Savat, David (2009) ‘Deleuze’s Objectile: From Discipline to Modulation’ in Deleuze and New Technology Poster M., Savat, D. (Eds.) Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh