The groundbreaking media scholar and critical thinker returns to Sydney for a series of events.
McKenzie Wark visited Sydney in August for a special series of events co-presented by the Power Institute and UNSW Art and Design, with support from Performance Space.
McKenzie Wark is a scholar, writer and teacher, whose impact over the past thirty years on the scholarly fields of cultural studies, digital media and critical theory has been profound.
Today, Wark is a Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College, The New School in New York. However, McKenzie began her career as a writer here in Sydney, where she was a key voice in the dynamic discourse around art, media and and technology. In the intervening years, Wark has authored over twenty books, including the seminal works A Hacker Manifesto (2004) (twenty years old this year) and Gamer Theory (2007), books whose conceptualisation of the forms that determine our information era remain as relevant as ever. Wark has also published influential accounts of the media avant-garde, including the Situationist International, as well as a set of indispensable guides to the critical theories that can equip us to understand the stakes of our present. More recently, Wark has shared a set of candid and profound accounts of the construction of the self, with works like Reverse Cowgirl (2020), Love and Money, Sex and Death (2023) and Raving (2023) (which the Power Institute was delighted to preview with a lecture last year).
While in Sydney, McKenzie will deliver a public lecture entitled "Post Cultural Studies", a workshop with scholars, artists and students, and will lead the billing on a special issue of Queer PowerPoint at the Art Gallery of NSW.
McKenzie Wark's visit to Sydney was made possible by a collaboration between the Power Institute and UNSW Art and Design, with support from Performance Space.
Public lecture: "Post Cultural Studies"
Queer PowerPoint ft. McKenzie Wark