School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS PRESENTS MEDIAMODES:
A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL THINKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY NOTED CRITIC AND SCHOLAR JONATHAN CRARY
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Keynote Address: 4 — 5:30pm
Book signing and reception to follow
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York City
Conference Panels: 10am — 3:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, 10th floor, New York City
All events are free and open to the public
www.mediamodes.com
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents MediaModes, an interdisciplinary graduate conference examining the contemporary dialogue between art and technology. Co-sponsored by the MFA Computer Art and the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Departments at SVA, MediaModes provides a critical forum for current scholarship exploring the juncture of media, theory, criticism and the visual arts. Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote address, commenting on the human and social consequences of 24/7 technological culture.
Jonathan Crary has written extensively on the confluence of art, technology and mass media. His books include Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (MIT Press, 1992), Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (MIT Press, 2001) and Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992). He is also a founding editor of Zone Books, widely noted for its publication of major works in philosophy, criticism, art, social theory and history. Crary has been the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon, Getty and Guggenheim fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Twenty-three current students and recent alumni from graduate programs throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia will present on the following six topics: Body, Identity and the Virtual Space; Spatial Experience and Social Networking; Perception, Information and Temporality; The Spectator and the Spectacle: Mediating Differences/Technology and Politics; Processes and Aesthetics of Digital Art; and Sound Junctures. SVA faculty members will moderate. A complete list of participants is attached. Additional details can also be found at www.mediamodes.com.
MediaModes conference participants represent a wide cross-section of disciplines, ranging from visual and cultural studies to interactive media arts; from criticism to curatorial practice; and from performance art to art history. They will address critical and analytical issues related to the connection between art and technology from a multiplicity of viewpoints, methodologies and theoretical approaches.
PANEL SCHEDULE (at 133/141 West 21st Street, 10th Floor)
Session 1: 10 — 11:30am
SPATIAL EXPERIENCE AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
ROOM 1022
• Amanda Graham, The Body of the Text: Dispersion and Its Implications in Shelley Jackson’s Skin: A Mortal Work of Art (University of Rochester, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, PhD)
• Nipun Kumar, Intervention or Interference of Digital Technologies in Interior Design–Developing Spatial Digital Experience (Rhode Island School of Design, Digital + Media)
• Ellen Hartwell Alderman, Phenomenal Translucency in Toyo Ito’s T House (Art Institute of Chicago, MFA)
• Graham Smith, Digital Painting: Social Network (School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art)
• Respondent: Grahame Weinbren
BODY, IDENTITY AND THE VIRTUAL SPACE
ROOM 1024
• Jaime Austin, Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Dante Hotel and Life Squared (California College of the Arts, Curatorial Practice, MA)
• Jenny Keane, Fragmented Fetishes: Monstrosity and Desire in Women’s Contemporary Time-Based Art (University of Ulster, Belfast)
• Aleksandra Przegalinska, Identity Negotiation in Human-Avatar Relations (The New School, Sociology, MA)
• Klara Seddon, Bento Blogs: Women’s Expression in Japanese Visual Culture (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, MA)
• Respondent: Russet Lederman
Session 2: 11:45am — 1:15pm
PROCESSES AND AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL ART
ROOM 1022
• Zach Blas, Queer Technologies: Toward a Viral Aesthetic (Duke University, Literature & Information Science and Information Studies, PhD)
• Dustin Grella, Processing Prayers for Peace (School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art)
• Aimee Walleston, The Aesthetics of Pixelation (School of Visual Arts, MFA Art Criticism and Writing)
• Respondent: Kathy Brew
PERCEPTION, INFORMATION AND TEMPORALITY
ROOM 1024
• Lorne Blythe, Cartesian Illusions: Cognitive Science and Representations of Subjective Time in Visual Art (School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media)
• Pierre Leichner, From Transcendence to ‘Altercendence’? (University of Concordia, Faculty of Fine Arts, MFA)
• Kurt Ralske, Data and Time: Information Storage and Paradigms of Temporality (School of Visual Arts, MFA Art Criticism and Writing)
• Nina Wenhart, The Grammar of New Media (Danube University Krems/Austria, Department for Image Science, Media Art Histories Programme, MA)
• Respondent: Suzanne Anker
Session 3: 2 — 3:30pm
BETWEEN THE SPECTATOR AND THE SPECTACLE
ROOM 1022
• LaTanya Autry, In and Out of the Margins — “Click!: A Crowd-Curated Exhibition?” (University of Delaware, Art History)
• Matthias De Groof, The Assimilation of Cinematographic Techniques by African Filmmakers. In Order to be Not Assimilated? A Plea for Anthropophagy (University of Antwerp, Filmstudies + Visual Culture, PhD candidate)
• Elaine W. Ho and Sean Smith, Unlayering the Relational: Microaesthetics and Micropolitics (European Graduate School, Media and Communications Program PhD)
• Doug Jarvis, Ghosts as an Audience (University of Guelph, Ontario, School of Fine Arts and Music)
• Respondent: Ken Johnson
SOUND JUNCTURES
ROOM 1024
• Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Shells, Membranes and Bicycle Horns (Concordia University, Montréal, Interdisciplinary Studies, PhD)
• Song-Min Ang, Operations and Institutions (Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Visual Cultures)
• Michael Capio, Wall Systems: Notes on Post-Digital Tendencies in Sound and Design (School of Visual Arts, MFA Art Criticism and Writing)
• Jelani Gould-Bailey, Harmonics (School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art)
• Respondent: Tom Huhn