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schedule

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009

All panels meet at MFA Computer Art, 133-144 West 21st Sreet., 10th Floor

SESSION 1: 10:00 A.M. TO 11:30 A.M.


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 (University of Illinois, Chicago, Art History, PhD)
  • 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—On 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, Department of Art, Design and the Built Environment)
  • 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: 11:45 A.M. TO 1:15 P.M.


Processes and Aesthetics of Digital Art - Room 1022



  • Meredith A. Bak, Picturing Nature: Guided Picture Tours and the View-Master as Ideological Apparatus (University of California, Santa Barbara, Film and Media Studies, PhD)
  • 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 (SVA, 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: 2:00 P.M. TO 3:30 P.M.


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)
  • 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

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 4:00 P.M. TO 5:30 P.M.

SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street (Between 8th and 9th Avenues)


Professor Jonathan Crary



Professor Crary is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His address is entitled: "On the Ends of Sleep: Reflections in the Glare of a 24/7 World".

A book signing and reception to follow in the theatre lobby.