CAA 2024

We have some exciting events coming up for the College Art Association 2024 Conference being held in Chicago on February 14th-17th!


Technological Imaginaries: imagined futures, utopian visions, and fabulations of alternative worlds

Co-chaired by Constanza Salazar and Rene Alberto Garcia Cepeda

Friday, February 16, 2024

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Central

Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Waldorf Room

She Who Sees the Unknown: Reimagining the Jinn Figure in Oddity and Wonder

Nima Esmailpour, Toronto Biennial of Art, Curatorial Fellow

Data Collecting (Universe)

Jessica Fu, Toronto Metropolitan University

Futurism and Fabulations in Contemporary Latin American Art and Ecology

Claudia Pederson, WSU

Imagined futures, utopian visions, and fabulations of alternative worlds make up recent technological imaginaries that use science fiction, specific cultural cosmologies, and the remaking of technological tools. Based on Sang-Hyun Kim and Sheila Jasanoff’s concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries” which are “collectively imagined forms of social life and social order reflected in the design and fulfillment of nation-specific scientific and/or technological projects” (Jasanoff and Kim, 2009), I focus on the specificity of technological imaginaries that have and continue to emerge in art making practices that rethink technology away from its “technocapitalist” logic of expansion, profit, and extraction (Villa, 2009). Instead, artists and artist-collectives reimagine technology through Afrofuturist aesthetics and ideals, indigenous and African cosmologies, ecological perspectives, and alternative uses of technology for artistic ends. In this panel, we present contributions by scholars and artists that expand on the concept of technological imaginaries to help us envision possibilities, ruptures, and potentialities away from the Global North paradigm.

The panel will be presented as part of the in-person CAA Conference on Friday, February 16th, from 11:00am – 12:30pm Central.

CAA registration is required for this event. If you have not registered and would like to attend this session, single day pass registration is also available.


NMC Showcase (Virtual)

Roopa Vasudevan, Requiem for the Early Internet

The NMC showcase is a series of rapid-fire, 6-minute presentations by NMC members. It has proven to be an excellent forum to get to know the work of other new media artists and scholars in a lively atmosphere. This event will be moderated by Eden Ünlüata – Foley!

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87691384377

Participating Speakers:

The showcase will be held during CAA 2024’s virtual segment via Zoom, on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 7:00-8:30 pm Central.

This event is free and open to the public. No CAA registration is required.


Showcase Watch Party & Reception

Will you be in Chicago during the showcase? Join us at the watch party and reception where we will fire up the Zoom link and share some refreshments with NMC members and friends IRL! All are welcome and no CAA registration is required.

Location:

Columbia College Chicago

623 S Wabash 4th floor Resource Room
Chicago, IL 60605
Time: 6pm-9pm Central

Click here to RSVP (for building security access)


NMC Business Meeting

Directly following the Technological Imaginaries panel discussion will be our CAA Affiliate Business Meeting on Friday, February 16th, from 1:00pm – 2:00pm Central. While this meeting will take place inside the in-person conference, all are welcome to join and you only need to complete the No-Cost Registration if you would like to attend this meeting. We will be sharing information about all of our exciting initiatives and events this past year as well as playing with some cool 3D scanning and eye tracking tools and discussing the opportunities we are excited about for the coming year!