CAA 2010 Events Schedule

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The New Media Caucus has a full line up of activities and events during the 2010 CAA Conference in Chicago. Four panels, two professional development roundtables, an artist colloquium / meet and greet reception, a Live Cinema Summit with over 10 artists performing and our business meeting mean there are going to be plenty of things to do and ways to be involved! Below is an overview of all of the events and activities - which are free and open to all. Please note the locations indicated below since some events are onsite at the Hyatt, others are at the Illinois State Museum and others are being held at Columbia College Chicago. Looking forward to seeing you all at the conference!

WEDNESDAY

NMC Artist Colloquium Meet & Greet

Wednesday 2/10/10 from 4pm - 6pm
Illinois State Museum
100 West Randolph St, 2nd Floor

Come join us for a reception at the Illinois State Museum on Wednesday 2/10 before the convocation where we’ll be holding ongoing, artist led, five-minute presentations of artwork by NMC and/or Chicago's OpenNode members: Nicholas Sagan, Belinda Haikes, Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky, Jim Ferolo, Sara Schnadt, Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens (Potter-Belmar Labs), Jay Alan Yim & Marlena Novak (LocalStyle), Taylor Hokanson & Chris Reilly, Ben Chang, Fernando Orellana, Sabrina Raaf, Joan Truckenbrod, Pat Badani, Mat Rappaport, Jessica Walker, Jim Jeffers & Vagner Whitehead

THURSDAY

New Media Caucus Business Meeting

Time: 7:30am - 9am

Place: Hyatt Regency (on-site)

Schedule:
From 7:30-8:15, NMC Business Items
From 8:15-9:00, Media-N Journal Items

Live Cinema Summit

Thursday 2/11/10 from 5pm - 10:30pm
Columbia College Chicago - Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash Ave, 1st Floor

The Live CInema Summit is a one-night-only showcase of ten national and international artists/artist collectives working in the emerging field of real-time audio-visual performance, and will feature performances by: Noisefold, Barbara Lattanzi, Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown, Robert Martin, Chris Kubick, Jon Satrom, Potter-Belmar Labs, DataIRJ, Black and Jones, Alessandro Imperato, and JonCates as well as several Columbia College students; the event begins at 6pm, and features a full line-up of back-to-back live cinema performance-demonstrations with plenty of room for dialogue.

Note: This evening only, trolleys complimentary Columbia College Chicago (CCC) will be continually transporting to/from the Hyatt starting at 5:30 - 9pm | makes stops at all CCC galleries and the Conaway Center

 

FRIDAY

Panel: New Media/New Terrain: Pioneering a PhD in Creative Research

Chair: Jessica Walker
Panelists: Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., James Coupe & Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Friday 2/12/10 from 12:30pm - 2pm
Hyatt Regency (on-site)

Panel Abstract: In the field of new media art there continues to be an increase of PhD programs that emphasize studio practice within their curricula. This is due in part to the interdisciplinary nature of new media, as it is a creative field that also encompasses areas of scientific research and cultural studies where the doctoral degree is regarded as the highest level of investigation. The implications of doctoral degrees within the field of new media need to be addressed to better understand how advanced research is forming new territories for artists to inhabit. This panel will bring together members from new media institutions that consider studio art practice an integral component of PhD candidature. Through this discussion, the new media community will gain perspective on how PhD research can differ from MFA research, how advanced research can shape an artist’s career and practice, how an artist’s creative investigations can be structured as doctoral research and how members from key new media institutions see the PhD influencing the field.

 

SATURDAY

Panel: Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles

Chairs: Jane Marsching & Andrea Polli
Panelists: Elena Glasberg, Lisa Bloom, Judit Hersko, Dr. Tom Corby, Leslie Sharpe & Dr. Lanfranco Aceti

Saturday 2/13/10 from 10am - Noon
Columbia College Chicago - 916 S. Wabash Ave, Room 150

Panel Abstract: Human understanding of the North and South Poles has been radically transformed by innovations in digital and networked technology, particularly in the last decade. The realities of the climate crisis have fueled new technologies in the fields of science, engineering, and art. This panel seeks to explore the transformation of cultural understandings of the unique position and rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles through digital technology.

Concurrent Rountable 1: New Media & the Tenure Track

Moderator: Vagner Whitehead
Discussion Leaders: Gary Kolb, Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky & Joan Truckenbrod

Saturday 2/13/10 from 12:15pm - 1:45pm
Columbia College Chicago - 916 S. Wabash Ave, Room 201

Note: The Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago is providing complimentary box lunches at this event.

Roundtable Info: As New Media gains a considerable role in Fine Art and related fields in educational institutions, the necessity for an academic dialogue on what constitutes this genre, how positions are created, how candidates are hired, evaluated, and promoted come to the forefront. The discussants in this roundtable session will address the topic from three distinct perspectives: 1- department/unit that creates position, searches and evaluates 2- candidate that is hired and currently is in the process 3- candidate who has gone through the process. The definitions, contextualization, assessment and qualifying of teaching, research/creative/intellectual activity, and service vis à vis New Media (and its many permutations) will engender stimulating conversation. An attempt will be made to gather a set of guidelines that may provide some clarification to both candidates and institutions. If needed, a committee may be formed to continue working on this issue until the 2011 conference. All are welcome to attend.

Concurrent Roundtable 2: New Media Curriculum Development

Moderator: Mike Salmond
Discussion Leaders: jonCates, Robert Lawrence, Leslie Raymond

Saturday 2/13/10 from 12:15 - 1:45pm
Columbia College Chicago - 916 S. Wabash Ave, Room 201

Note: The Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago is providing complimentary box lunches at this event.

Roundtable Info: What are the Challenges academics and administrators face when developing or updating curriculum for new media programs in universities and colleges? How do you cope with subject matter that changes and alters so much, but at the same time don’t write a curriculum that is too vague? What needs to be in - what needs to be out? Is there a consensus to what cornerstone new media modules should be in these curriculum's? What differentiates NM Curriculum from others such as media studies, fine arts communications and other technology-based programs? This round-table will create a discourse surrounding the practicalities, short falls and successes of developing new media courses and modules. Heading the round-table will be a panel of academics with extensive backgrounds in curriculum development and practice. Although no longer ‘new’ the new media program is still in its infancy and is often in flux at many institutions as we are still in the period of evolution. This round-table will confront the challenges of this development process and produce transcripts and media that will contribute to a deeper understanding of current thought on the new media curriculum process and execution. Although primarily focused on undergraduate education, this by no means excludes post-graduate studies. The round-table is open to all comers faculty, administrators and students, we hope to stimulate a vibrant and energetic ‘best practices’ and ‘short falls’ discussion which will feed into a larger ongoing resource on the New Media Journal website.

Panel: Cybersex: What’s Art got to do with it?

Chair: Vagner Whitehead
Panelists: Barbara DeGenevieve, Doug Ischar, Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse

Saturday 2/13/10 from 2pm - 3:30pm
Columbia College Chicago - 916 S. Wabash Ave, Room 150

Panel Abstract: While it is arguable that looking at pornography online equates actual sexual acts performed with the aid of computer communication technologies, the connection between mediated visual stimulation with desire exists. It is possible that a percentage of the people looking at porn and partaking on cybersex (from the traditional chatroom text, to emailed pictures, cam2cam, MUVEs, etc), consists of artists. Their interaction with these technologies and other beings interested in similar activities could potentially inform/influence their artistic endeavors. This panel aims to examine the varied form in which artists explore and present sexuality and the Internet in their works.

Panel: Limited Set: Generative Intersections of Theater and Artificial Life

Chair: Adam Trowbridge
Panelists: Janell Baxter, Fabian Winkler, Rebecca Bryant, Carol Cunningham-Sigman & Sharon Göpfert

Saturday 2/13/10 from 3:45pm - 5:15pm
Columbia College Chicago - 916 S. Wabash Ave, Room 150

Panel Abstract: There is an unexplored affinity between the fields of generative art, movement-based theater, and artificial life explorations. In all three fields, complex behavior emerges from a limited rule set. In a "balancing the space" exercise, performers enter into, leave from and interact within a marked space based on simple constraints intended to keep the space balanced with their collective presence. John Conway's Game of Life, and other cellular automata, simulate moving life forms visually using a pixel grid and a set of rules that governs their emergence and disappearance. Cellular automata and boids, artificial life programs that simulate flocking behavior, are the basis of process-based work like that of Karl Sims and C.E.B. Reas. What possibilities open when the human body intersects with a structured set of rules? How can performance move artificial life off the screen and into human space? What devices and interfaces exist to bridge algorithmic art and live theater? This panel will present and discuss perspectives on the fields of generative performance and digital art as well as offer the opportunity for considering ways that they may intersect in the future. Panelists will address historical and contemporary works in the fields of generative art, artificial life and movement-based theater.