Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia:
Rendering the Artistic Object

02.01.02-02.02.02

 

Conference Schedule/Program

Time

02.01.02
Friday Afternoon

Royce Hall 314
1:00

Opening Remarks - Gloria Sutton,
Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

1:10
Welcome - Prof. Robert Brown,
Acting Chair of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
1:15

The Design Challenges of Online Comics - Scott McCloud
Author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics

2:00
Digitality and Tactical Media - Steve Kurtz
Department of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, and member of Critical Art Ensemble
2:45
Discussion
3:00
 
Break
3:15
09/11/01: Lines of Flight - Amy Pederson
Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
3:45
New Media from Borges to HTML - Lev Manovich
Author of The Language of New Media, Department of Art, University of California, San Diego
4:30
 
Discussion
5:00
 
Break

Time
02.01.02
Friday Evening

Artist Talks and Dinner: EDA, Dickson Art Center
 
6:00
Dinner
6:40
Opening Remarks - Jon Zast
Design|Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
6:45
Panel: Media Design, Process and Product - Shereen Abdul-Baki, Larissa Desai, Sean Donahue, Stephanie Sakkab, David Schwarz
Art Center College of Design, Media Design
7:15
Discussion
7:30
Artist Presentations including: Sylvia Borda, Brody Condon, Shane Hope, Josh Nimoy, Sylvia Rigon
9:00
End of Evening

 

Time
02.02.02
Saturday
Graduate Panel Discussions
Royce Hall 314
9:30
 
Coffee and Announcements
10:00
Questions of Medium
Moderated by Lev Manovich and presentations by:
Gwen Allen, Art History, Stanford University
Jenny Holzer in Berlin: A Case Study Exploring the Digital Documentation of Site-Specific Work
  Justin Kent, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interart Interaction
Benjamin Lima, Visual & Cultural Studies, University of California, Irvine Paul Pfeiffer¼s Frames
Gloria Sutton, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles Reconsidering Net.Art
Angie Waller, Art, University of California, Los Angeles
Software as Medium
12:00
Lunch

1:00
Notions of Interactivity
Moderated by Steve Kurtz and presentations by:
Reynal Guillen, History, University of California, Los Angeles
On Crafting Chicano Activism Within New Media: Can An Ethno-Luddite Appropriate New Media?
Jane McGonigal, Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley Delusions of Drama?: The Power of Performance Rhetoric in Digital Activism
Sonia Prasad, Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Cracks in the City: Imagineering the Urban Condition
County Tam, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Techno-Presence: Interface Reality

Mediating Subjectivity
Moderated by Scott McCloud and presentations by:
Tobey Crockett, Visual & Cultural Studies, University of California, Irvine
The Computer as Dollhouse -or- The Seriousness of Virtual Play in Avatar Worlds
Jia-yan Mi, Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
Digi-topia in the Age of Viruses: Intervening the Virtu/ality
Jessica Pressman, English, University of California, Los Angeles Inside/Outside the Text: Literature as Cybernetic Organism in House of Leaves
Catherine Zimmer, Rhetoric/Film, University of California, Berkeley
The World or the Mind?: Physicality and the Digital Motion Picture
4:30
Conclusion of Program

 

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