Critical Themes in Media Studies: Digital Effect
Saturday 06 April, 2013
10:30am - 8:30pm, $0
New School
66 West 12 Street, Room 510
Critical Themes in Media Studies is an annual conference run by the graduate students of the School of Media Studies in the New School for Public Engagement.
The conference provides a distinguished forum for students from The New School, and around the world to present original scholarship on topics related to the study of media and society.
The conference this year focuses on the intersection of affect and digital communication technology and their socio-political, ontological, institutional and creative implications.
This year will be our 13th conference, and will be held April 5-6 at The New School in New York City.
Overview information and links to past years’ websites can be found here.
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
Performance: “My Mother’s Scream”
08:30 Closing Reception