ParaSite New Media Symposium
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
UC Berkeley
A UCB graduate student symposium on new media and
its relationship to other arts and disciplines. Is new media "parasitic"
upon the strategies of other media or something like a "para-site"
for their exploration? How does new media appropriate, absorb, diminish,
further, reinvent, or exist side-by-side with the forms that it inherits?
10:00 - 10:15
Introduction and Welcome
Brooke Belisle (Rhetoric), Irene Chien (Film Studies), Ken Goldberg (IEOR
& EECS, UC Berkeley)
10:15 - 11:00
Opening Keynote: "The Logos of the New: Medium Specificity and Convergence,"
Anne Friedberg (Cinematic Arts, USC)
11:00 - 12:00
Visualizing Time and Space
Photography, digital video, and
data design
Andrew Moisey (Film Studies), Brooke Belisle (Rhetoric), Meredith Hoy (Film
Studies)
Respondent: Jeffrey Skoller (Film Studies, UC Berkeley)
12:15 - 1:15
Mediated Bodies
Spectatorship and interaction in cinema, installation,
and sexual practices
Ashley White-Stern (Film Studies), Kelly Rafferty (Performance Studies),
Kevin Wynter (Film Studies)
Respondent: Jennifer Bean (Cinema Studies, University of Washington)
2:15 - 3:30
Distributed Participation
Art, architecture, and the live
event
Dan Perkel (School of Information), Jennifer Johung (Performance Studies),
Claudia Salamanca (Rhetoric), Ryan Shaw (School of Information)
Respondent: Shannon Jackson (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley)
3:45 - 4:45
Materiality of Language
Orality, literature, and communication
Alenda Chang (Rhetoric), John Lurz (English), Christo Sims (School of Information)
Respondent: Peter Krapp (Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
5:00 - 5:15
Artist’s Presentation: “To Watch While Holding Your Breath,”
Greg Niemeyer (Art Practice, UC Berkeley)
5:15 - 6:00
Closing Keynote: "Disobedient Machines: Autonomy and Animation,"
Scott Bukatman (Art History, Stanford)
Followed by a reception and live music mash-up & art performance featuring
the Berkeley remix artist Zebbler, the do-it-yourself DJ machine created
by the Improbable Orchestra group, and DJs Ripley and Kid Kameleon at the
Berkeley Art Museum RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA. exhibition, 7-10pm. Taking
its cue from the open-source tradition, this exhibit introduces third-party
recodings and reworkings of digital pieces in the museum's collection, including
Ken Goldberg's Ouija 2000.
Please contact Irene
Chien (ichien at berkeley dot edu) or Brooke Belisle (bbelisle at berkeley dot edu) for more information.
Organized by the New Media Working Group. Sponsored by Film Studies,
Consortium for the Arts, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley
Center for New Media, and Berkeley Art Museum.
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