CAA 2006 Annual Conference Events [link]

Conference Events: February 21-25, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts

WEDNESDAY Events

••NEW MEDIA CAUCUS Mentoring Session: Wednesday, FEBRUARY 22, 1:00 - on, Club Level, 29th Floor, Sheraton Hotel••

THURSDAY EVENTS

••NEW MEDIA CAUCUS BUSINESS MEETING: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 5:30 - 7:00, ROOM 304••

Panel title: "From database and place to bio-tech and bots: relationality vs autonomy in media art”

Panel Chair: Marisa S. Olson, Artist; Editor and Curator at Large, Rhizome.org; UC Berkeley, Rhetoric/Film Studies.

Thursday, February 23, 12:30-2:00, Room 304

Panelists:

Tad Hirsch, Artist, Institute for Applied Autonomy
Warren Sack, Artist; Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Brett Stallbaum, Artist, C5; Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Helen Thorington, Artist; Co-Director, Turbulence.org, New Radio and
Performing Arts, Inc.

Panel title: Five on Five: Five Perspectives on the Interplay of Research, Innovation, Experimentation, Pedagogy and Practice

Panel Chair: Diane Willow, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota.

Thursday, February 23, 3:00-5:00, Art Interactive

Confirmed Panelists:

Glorainna Davenport – MIT Media Lab
Andrea Polli – Hunter College
Jennifer Hall – Massachusetts College of Art / DoWhile Studio Founder
Blythe Hazen – Montserrat College
Joan Brigham – Emerson College / Emerita

New Media/New Work/

NewMediaCaucus+ArtInteractive/CAA06:

BOSTON/CAA CONFERENCE/ at ART INTERACTIVE GALLERY
http://www.artinteractive.org/

Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6:00-9:00 pm.

New Media Showcase: Co-presented by: The Department of Visual and Media Arts, School of the Arts, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies of Emerson College and New Media Caucus

Featured artists:

Roberto Bocci, Margot Lovejoy, Maurice Methot, Gwyan Rhabyt, Jack Toolin

Location:

Little Building, Emerson Room, 2nd floor
80 Boylston Street
Boston, MA

Thursday, February 23rd, 3 to 5 p.m.

Directions from the Hynes Convention Center:
Take the Green Line subway("T") from Hynes/ICA station to 3rd stop (past Copley and Arlington), the Boylston station. The Little Building is across the street.

FRIDAY EVENTS

V.I.B.E.

ArtSpace will present a survey of public video projects by Video in
the Built Environment (www.v1b3.com) on Friday, February 24th during the day

V.I.B.E. is an artist-led project begun in 2004 in the U.K. by artists Mat Rappaport, Conrad Gleber & John Marshall. Their efforts focus on the integration of new media art with the built environment through curated site-specific interventions, screened presentations and collaborations with architects and developers.

SATURDAY EVENTS

Panel Title: The Visual Narrative of the Computer Desktop

Panel Chair: Alec MacLeod, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

Saturday, February 25, 9:30 am - noon, Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 311

Panelists:

Juliet Davis, University of Tampa. Fractured Cybertales: Interface Mythologies of Feminine Choice and Control
Craig L. Warner. Northwest Missouri State University. What We Want, May Not Be What We Need; or An interface should face the inner need
Craig Saper. University of Central Florida. Interface as/on Art: fokvine.org
Sylvia Grace Borda. University of British Columbia and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. The Social Implications of New Media: An Overview of Trends
Mary Agnes Krell. Department of Media and Film Studies, Sussex University. Impossible Geographies - Moving the Contact Surface

Discussant:

Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin

Abstract: What is hidden and what is revealed by the graphical user interface of computers? Are there implicit narratives or metanarratives embedded in its visual landscape? Does this visual presentation reflect natural relationships and actual organization of computers? In what ways does this interface shape the user’s experience? In what ways does it invite subversion and transgression? This multidisciplinary panel will look at the implicit significance of the computer interface. This includes explorations of the underlying structures and metaphors at play as well as analyses of the so-called intuitive nature of these visual signifiers. The goal is to draw attention to the visual aspects of this common activity to better understand the impacts and implications of interface design. That this visual experience is intended to be transparent—even invisible—makes it an inviting object of consideration. This panel will bring together perspectives from fields such as interface design, new media, and cultural criticism..

Panel Title: Asia Effects in New Media

Panel Chair: Mina Cheon, Professor of Foundation and Interactive Media, Maryland Institute College of Art

ArtSpace: Saturday, February 25th, 2:30-5:00

Confirmed Panelists:
Kim Hong-hee, Artistic Director of Gwangju Biennale 2006.
Wu Hung, Chief Curator of Gwangju Biennale 2006, Professor of Art History
Stephen Vitiello, Sound/Media Artist, Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging
Sowon Kwon, Artist, 2005 Media Arts Residency Award Winner

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CAA 2005 Conference - Atlanta

Interrogating Interfaces, Alec MacLeod and Laurie Beth Clark's panel
New Media Caucus open session

Date: Thrusday, February 17, 2005. From 12:30 - 2:00
Place: Salon 2 of the Marriott Marquis Ballroom in the Grand Salon

The New Media Caucus Business Meeting:

Date: Thursday, February 17 at 5:30 pm
Place: Salon D, 2nd floor of the Hilton

Screenshots and Audio Effects, Rachel Clarke and Doreen Maloney
New Media Caucus competitive session

Date: February 19 from 9:30 - 12:00
Place: Marriott, Convention level, Consulate Room

Sponsored by the New Media Caucus:
Rachel Mayeri of Harvey Mudd College will be curating an open call video show, as well as showing "Soft Science" a compilation of videos currently scheduled to be shown in LA at ArtSPACE in Atlanta, Friday, Februrary 18 from 6-8:30.

CAA 2004 Conference

Constructing Boundaries: Approaches to the Discourse of New Media Aesthetics

Like all forms of representation, New Media art adheres to or challenges conceptions of high and low aesthetics. For example, how fashionable is the fluid world of the World Wide Web? Any web-based art work is easy to temporally locate by the artist's use of 3-dimenisonal graphics, color choices and incorporation of animation techniques du jour. This unwritten code of the dated, the old and the avant-garde changes seasonally and impacts both the web as well as video, digitally-derived prints, interactive performance, sound works, animation, and installation.

Date: February 21, 2004. From 12:30-2:00O

Panelists :

Jonathan Binstock , Curator for Contemporary Art at the Corcoran. Jonathan will speak about curating the Corcoran Biennial: Fantasy Underfoot.

Nancy Atakan , Art Historian, Artist and Critic from Istanbul, Turkey. Nancy will comment on and present the point of view of the pre-eminent curators of New Media Art in Istanbul.

Rachel Clarke , Asst. Professor of Art, CSU Sacramento. Rachel will be discussing her strategies of curating the show "Postflesh, Visualizing the Techno Self"; she will discuss how she defines New Media art and the parameters she used to choose pieces for the show.

Sara Doris, Visiting Professor, University of Kentucky. Sara will compare the issues surrounding the production and reception of New Media in its early years (1960s-70s) with the present and the theoretical importance of McLuhan in each context.