Program
Note: a copy of the conference program can also be downloaded here.
Friday, 20 April 2007
9:30-10:00: Coffee, Illini Union 407
Session I (10:00-11:15): Interfaces and Integrations, Illini Union 407
Andrea Goulet. University of Illinois
“Zéropa-Land: Balkanization’s Shadow-Space in French Cyber-Polars of the 1990s”
Dmitri Williams, University of Illinois
“Code and Community: The Future of Online Games”
Session II (11:30-12:45): Rethinking Media, Illini Union 407
Ryan Griffis, University of Illinois
“For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life”
Marc Downie, The Openended Group
“Other Bodies : Between Code and Language”
Robert Markley, University of Illinois
“New Media and the Problem of Disciplinarity”
Lunch (12:45-2:00)
Session III (2:00-3:15): New Media, Illini Union 407
Lisa Nakamura , University of Illinois
“Digital Racial Profiling: Passing Culture, the Internet, and Facial Recognition on Television and the Web”
Bertrand Gervais, Université de Québec à Montréal
“The Edenic Illusion: Cyberspace and the Myth of Transparent Media”
Margaret Flinn, University of Illinois
“The Aesthetics and Politics of Convergence in the “Digitexts” of Jean-Louis Boissier and Chris Marker”
Keynote Address: 4:00-5:30
314-B Illini Union
Introduction: Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois
Presentation: David F. Bell, Duke University
Keynote Address: Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Imagining the New Media Encounter”
Dinner (6:00-8:30)
Saturday, 21 April 2007
9:30-10:00: Coffee, Illini Union 407
Session IV (10:00-11:30): Interfaces and the Virtual, Illini Union 407
Kevin Hamilton, University of Illinois
“The Instrumental Image: Interface as Representation”
Lucy Suchman, University of Lancaster
“Human-Machine Reconfigurations”
Christian Sandvig, University of Illinois
“The Folk Cartography of Electromagnetic Spectrum”
Tim Lenoir, Duke University
“Biointerface: on Desiring Machines and Postbiological Selves”
Lunch (12:00-1:30)
Session V (1:30-3:30), Illini Union 407
Wendy Chun, Brown University
"Programmable Visions: On the Emergence of Computer and Biological Code-Scripts"
Maria Lovett and Joseph Squier, University of Illinois
“Writing with Video”
James Hay, University of Illinois
“Helping Themselves: Men and the Kitchen”
Jody Berland, York University
“Understanding the animal as medium of communication: Symbolic work in communicative regimes”