Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference Welcomes AMT Students – April 5th & 6th
Written by:
parsonsamt
04.02.13
The Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference theme this year is “Digital | Affect”.
Mark B.N. Hansen, a widely known and highly acclaimed scholar whose research speaks volumes to the conference theme “Digital | Affect”, will present the opening keynote.
April 5th, 2013
Wollman Hall, 65 W. 11th Street
07:00 PM OPENING KEYNOTE
Mark Hansen
“Beyond Affect?: Technical Sensibility and the Pharmacology of Media”
08:30pm Opening Reception
April 6th, 2013
GRADUATE STUDENT PANELS
Room 510, 66 W 12th
10:30 am—12:00 pm Decoding Identities in Flux
- “Disrupting Privilege through Augmented Reality”
- “Lifelogging, a technology of the self”
- “As We May Like – Liking things in the Digital Age”
- “ACT UP NY: Unleashing Latino Power”
Faculty respondent: Amin Husain
01:00 pm—02:30 pm Framing the Virtual in Spatial Encounters
- “The Osmotic Bubble. Design Synchronicity: Cognitive Unconscious and the Bilateral Brain—How Emotion and Intuition Empower Us to Imagine”
- “The revolutionary affect: Iconography and (e)motion in street riots”
- “Museums, Colonial Archives and Affective Residues”
Faculty Respondent: Elizabeth Ellsworth
02:45 pm—04:15 pm Criss-Crossing Language
- “Transmediality and Aesthetics of the Technological Sublime”
- “The Sankofa Project”
- “Autism as Evolution: Talking in Pictures”
- “ASCII and Artistic Practices”
Faculty Respondent: Paolo Carpignano
04:30 pm—06:00 pm Transhuman Becomings
- “Critical vlogs on YouTube: The affective and aesthetic dimension in strange and yet familiar fertility projects”
- “The Dying Patient, The Invincible Mouse and Tumor Media: Technologies and Cultures of Tumor Mediation”
- “The Body as Techno-Base”
- “Re-embodying the Post Human Experience”
Faculty Respondent: Peter Asaro
Room 509, 66 W 12th
02:00 pm—03:30 pm Public/Private Assemblages
- “Recursive Identities in Sociopolitical Movements: A Case Study of Hackathons”
- “Digital Uncanniness: Art from Google Street View”
- “Flash Mobs: Seizing Space “In A Flash” with Digital Technology
- “The socio-politics of virtual private networks”
Faculty Respondent: Edward Byfield
03:45 pm—05:15 pm Mediascapes and Cinematic Cartography
- “Transnational Migrants, Mediascapes and the Conceptual Cartography of Urban Spaces”
- “Dwell, Inhabit, and Digital Urban Screens”
- “Cinema, Self, and Society”
- “Walking the Sonic: Acoustic Experiences and Experiments in Corona”
Faculty Respondent: Brian McCormick
05:30 pm—07:00 pm Virtual Materialisms
- “On the Ontology and the Materiality of Data: Going Beyond Data as the Representation of an Object”
- “Emergence of Physicality in the Digital Age | Mapping the Nodes”
- “Living With Commodities: Emergence and materiality in subject-object relations”
Faculty Respondent: Eugene Thacker
Wollman Hall, 65 W. 11th Street
07:30 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE
Patricia Clough
Performance: “My Mother’s Scream”
08:30 Closing Reception
The event is free and open to the public. For more details and the full schedule, see here:
