The Sixteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology

Schedule of Events
February 15, 16 and 17, 2018

All events are in Oliva Hall, Cummings Arts Center, unless noted.

All events are free and open to the 51勛圖窪蹋 community.

Thursday, February 15

8:30 9:30 a.m.
Registration and Coffee, Oliva Lobby

9:30 9:40 a.m.
Andrea Wollensak, Ammerman Center Director
Welcome

9:40 9:55 a.m.
Ha Na Lee (Independent)
Two Women: On the Cinematic Experience in Installation Art

10:00 10:15 a.m.
William Orzo (Independent)
Different Trains: Hopping Off the STEM Bandwagon

10:20 10:35 a.m.
Nancy Nowacek (Stevens Inst of Tech)
Action Code: Coding as a Calisthenic Practice

10:40 11:05 a.m.
Coffee Break (Oliva Lobby)

11:05 11:20 a.m.
Sophia Brueckner (Univ. of Michigan)
Embodisuit: A Wearable Platform for Embodied Knowledge

11:25 11:40 a.m.
Andrea Baldwin, Heidi Henderson, James Lee (CC)
(Re) Creating the Posture Portraits

11:45 a.m. 12 noon
James Lee, Isaih Porter 18, Rishma Mendhekar 18 (CC)
A GPU-Accelerated Particle Simulation that Supports Millions of Particles 

Noon  1:30 p.m.
Lunch, on your own

Noon  1:30 p.m.
Workshop (sign-up required, registration desk)

Alexandra Juhasz, (Brooklyn College) Kyle Booten (Dartmouth)
#100hardtruths-#fakenews Poetry Workshop: An experiment in radical digital media literacy given the fact of fake news

1:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Elizabeth Jameson (Jameson Fine Art)
Reclaiming My Body

1:50 2:05 p.m.
Joel Ong (York Univ)
Elemental Monitoring: The Afterlife of a Breath

2:10 2:25 p.m.
Megan Young (MegLouise), Gregory King (Kent State) and Angela Davis Fegan (Independent) (*2018 Commissioned Artists)
Nuclear Winter

2:30 3 p.m.
Break (2nd floor, Coffee Salon)

3 3:15 p.m.
Aurie Hsu/Steven Kemper (*2018 Commissioned Artists)
Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin? Enacting Cyborg Performance

3:20 3:35 p.m.
Shalev Moran, Milana Gitzin Adiram  (*2018 Commissioned Artists)
Speculative Tourism

3:40 4:15 p.m.
Break, (2nd floor Coffee Salon)

4:15 5:15 p.m.
Natalie Bookchin (2018 Dayton Visiting Artist) 
Network Effects Artist's Talk

5:30 7 p.m.
Symposium Reception and Cummings Art Gallery Opening

Featuring Dayton Visiting Artist: Natalie Bookchin Cummings Art Galleries, 2nd Floor

Installations and Exhibitions: (1st, 2nd and 3rd floors)

Sophia Brueckner, "Embodisuit: A Wearable Platform for Embodied Knowledge"

Let穩cia Ferreira, xtine burrough, The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of Exit Signs

Heidi Henderson, Translating Posture

Elizabeth Jameson, Emerging, Celebration, Valentine

Jeff Kasper, signs

Lisa Moren, "Nonument 01: The McKeldin Fountain"

Stephanie Rothenberg, Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene

James Lee, Heidi Henderson, Andrea Baldwin, The Reminiscence, a Story at 51勛圖窪蹋

7:15 - 7:45 p.m.
Gallery Performance:

Megan Young, Gregory King and Angela Davis Fegan  (*2018 Commissioned Artists)
Nuclear Winter

8 p.m.

Multimedia Performances (Evans Hall)  

Matthew Steinke (Independent), Noplace (robotic musical instruments, electronics)

Julia Frey, Sam Harmet (Casual FreyDay), A Peoples History of Silicon Valley (multimedia, theater, projection design, synthesized sound, Max/MSP manipulations)

Emilia Izquierdo (ENG), Eclipse (video, animation)

Alexander Dupuis (Brown Univ), three paths (video, electronics)

Greg Wilder (Independent),Out of the Dark Hall and Wander" (fixed media)

Nathaniel Haering (BGSU), Cimmerian Isolation (flute, live electronics)  

Justin Cabrillos (Independent), Sam Yulsman (Columbia Univ), Gabrielle DaCosta-Yulsman (ICLS), Land Before Time III (dance, electronic sound, text

Friday, February 16

8:30 9:15
Registration and Coffee, Oliva Lobby

9:30 (Evans Hall)
Welcome: Prof. Andrea Wollensak, Ammerman Center Director Introduction: Prof. Abigail Van Slyck, Dean of the Faculty

9:40 10:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Evans Hall)

Krzysztof Wodiczko Keynote (Harvard Univ. Graduate School of Design) Open Transmission: Media Art, Public Space and Fearless Speech

10:30 11 a.m.
Coffee Break, Oliva Lobby

11:00 11:15 a.m.
xtine burrough and Leticia Ferreira (Univ of Texas, Dallas) A History of the Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of Exit Signs

11:20 11:35 a.m.
Amanda Guti矇rrez (CC) Acoustic Territories: a Sonic and Ethnographic Study of Sunset Park, Brooklyn

11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. (Cummings Galleries)
Installations and Exhibitions: (1, 2 and 3rd floors) (See Thursday 5:30 -7:00 description)

11:40 a.m. 11:55 a.m. 
Zack Settel, Michal Seta and Nicholas Bouillot (SAT-Montreal) Dual Rendering of Virtual Audio Scenes for Far-field Surround Multi-channel and Near-field Binaural Audio Displays

12 noon 1:30 p.m.
Lunch, on your own

1 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Performance
Megan Young, Gregory King and Angela Davis Fegan (*2018 Commissioned Artists) Nuclear Winter

1:30 1:45 p.m.
Agustina Isidori (Concordia Univ)
Representing Femicide through a Video Game: Towards a Socially Responsible Design Practice

1:50 2:05 p.m.
Philipp Schmitt (New School) Computed Curation

2:10 2:25 p.m.
Catie Cuan (Independent), Amy LaViers and Ishaan Pakrasi (U-Illinois )
Time to Compile: An Interactive Art Installation

2:30 3 p.m. 
Coffee Break (2nd floor Coffee Salon)

3:00 3:15 p.m.
Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo)
Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene

3:20 3:35 p.m.
Robin Cox (Indiana Univ)
Big Tent: Field Testing a Portable Venue for Multimedia Performing Arts

3:40 4 p.m.
Prof. Nadav Assor (CC)
Hygienic Galleries "Future Perfect" Exhibition Preview

4:30 9 p.m.
Hygienic Galleries: Future Perfect: Selected Works from the 16th Biennial Symposium" Exhibition
79 Bank Street, New London

Gallery Opening and Reception

Featuring:

Angela Ferraiolo (Sarah Lawrence), Maps for a Future War

Eunsu Kang (Univ of Akron) Ganymedes

Erin Gee (UMaine) + Alex Lee (Clarkson), Project HEART

Luis Mejico (Independent), I Will Hurt You

Veronica Mockler (Independent) Canvassers

Shalev Moran, Mushon Zer-Aviv and Milana Gitzin-Adiram (Israel, *2018 Commissioned Artists), Speculative Tourism

Juan Pablo Pacheco (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota) Blue Dot

Mina Rafiee (The New School), Jason Brogan, Magnus Pind Bjerre Barrierland

Joyce Rudinsky, Victoria Szabo (Univ. of NC) Psych Asthenia 3: Dupes

Laura Skocek, Christoph Gruber (Austria, supported by the Federal Chancellery of Austria) Forced Leisure

Jack Stenner (Univ. of FL) Desire Miners: Mercedes 'n Zombar

Jeff Thompson (Stevens Inst of Tech) I Touch You and You Touch Me

Jenny Vogel (UMASS-Amherst) How Much Memory is Needed

Ricardo Miranda Z繳簽iga (Hunter College - CUNY) Realidad VE

6 7:30 p.m. 
Banquet
(Reservation required, see registration desk)

8 p.m.
Multimedia Performances (Evans Hall)

Andrew Litts (Temple Univ), singularity (trumpet, electronics)

Yuanyuan (Kay) HE (U-Texas, Austin) On the Excenter of a Blindspot (piano, electronics)

Christopher Biggs (Western Michigan University) Contraposition (piano, electronics)

Lauren Sarah Hayes (Arizona State Univ) Visitor Ion Map (laptop, processed vocals, drum machines and analogue synths) 

Arthur Kreiger (CC) Kindred Spirits (cello, electronics)

Zach Duer (Virginia Tech) nothing_nomeanings (video)

Tjasa Ferme, Ana Margineanu, Meggan Dodd, Justin Mathews, Natalie Kacinik, The Female Role Model Project (multimedia devised theater piece)

Saturday, February 17

8:30 9:15 a.m.
Registration and coffee, Oliva Lobby

9:20 9:30 a.m.
Announcements

9:30 9:45 a.m.
Asha Tamarisa (Brown)
Experimental Sound Performance Preview

9:50 10:05 a.m.
WhiteFeather Hunter (Concordia Univ)
Biomateria: Biotextile Craft

10:10 10:25 a.m.
Heidi Boisvert (CUNY)
Walking Wounded A Living Lab & Multi-Media Performance Transforming Trauma through Real-Time Drawing and Sound Generated from Dancers Nervous System

10:30 11 a.m.
Break, Oliva Lobby

11:00 11:15 a.m.
Catherine Pancake (Temple Univ)
Slow Selves Futures: Embodiment and Upending Extractive Industry War Machines

11:20 11:35 a.m.
Mariana P矇rez-Bobadilla (City Univ-Hong Kong)
Imagination and Accountability: Grounding Possible Futures in Art and Biology Artefacts

11:40 - 11:55 a.m.
Mona Kasra, Peter Bussigel (Univ. of Virginia)
(a)liveness: phase 3 - ii An Interactive Environment by the Institute for Inter-animation

Noon - 1 p.m. (Oliva Lobby)
Lunch, provided by Ammerman Center

1 1:35 p.m.
Paper and Live Performance
Mallory Catlett (Stony Brook Univ), Alex Wermer-Colan (Temple Univ), Lucas Crane (NY)
Decoder 2017: Cutting Up the Reality Studio

1:40 1:55 p.m.
Mina Rafiee (New School)
Void: Breaking Boundaries Between Senses 

2 2:15 p.m.
To be scheduled

2:20 2:35 p.m.
Bridget Baird, Andrea Wollensak (CC)
Mediascapes and Materiality: Creative Works Informed by Arctic Environmental Data

2:40 - 2:55 p.m.
Orr Menirom (Independent)
Clinton and Sanders Looking at the World and Naming Things for the First Time

3 3:15 p.m.
Break 

3:15 4:30 p.m. (Ammerman Center House, 768 Williams Street)
Shawn Hove (CC), Seniors: Jack Beal, Rebecca Brill Weitz,
Emily Green, Lauren Linehan, Rishma Mendhekar,
Greg Montenegro, Isaih Porter, Alana Wimer, Yi Xie

Ammerman Center Student Presentations and Reception

5 p.m.
Multimedia Performances (Evans Hall)  

Robin Cox (Indiana Univ), Dirt (violin, electronics)

Maurice Wright (Temple Univ), Broadcast Sequence with Gunshot (fixed media)

Catie Cuan (Independent), Amy LaViers and Ishaan Pakrasi (U-Illinois),
Time to Compile: An Interactive Art Installation (video, dance, theater, and robotics)

Butch Rovan (Brown Univ), Imperfect Transmissions (laptop ensemble)

Ivan Elezovic (Jackson State Univ), Well Known Routine (fixed media)

Aurie Hsu (Oberlin Conservatory), Steven Kemper (Rutgers) (*2018 Commissioned Artists),
Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?
(sensor-equipped belly dancer, robotic percussion, live sound processing)

8 p.m.
Experimental Sound Performances (Tansill Theater)

Asha Tamarisa Experimental Sound Show Curator

Victoria Shen, untitled (audiovisual improvisation, analog/digital electronics)

Valise, untitled (video, sound, multimedia)

Kristina Warren, Arrest (voice, electronics, custom-built interface)

Juan Flores (CC 16), Isaac Medina, Transmitter (audiovisual networked improvisation)

Akiko Hatakeyama, Blind | The world where I cant be but you live in (voice, electroacoustic sound, custom-built interface)

 

*2018 Ammerman Center Commissioned Artists

Aurie Hsu, Steven Kemper:Why Should our Bodies End at the Skin? 
Shalev Moran, Mushon Zer-Aviv and Milana Gitzin-Adiram: Speculative Tourism
Megan Young, Gregory King and Angela Davis Fegan: Nuclear Winter

Receptions

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 7 p.m., Cummings Art Galleries

Friday, February 16, 4:30 9 p.m., Hygienic Art Gallery, 79 Bank Street, New London

Saturday, February 17, 3:15 4:30 p.m., Ammerman Center House, 768 Williams Street

Greer Music Library (Cummings, first floor):

Hours: Thursday, 8:30 am 11 pm, Friday 8:30 am 5 pm, and Saturday 1 - 5 

Cummings Coffee Closet(2nd floor)

Hours: Thursday, Noon 6 p.m., Friday, and Saturday, Noon 4 p.m.
 

Special thanks to 51勛圖窪蹋: the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of the College, the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), the Office of the Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, Ammerman Center Students and Fellows, the Art, Music, Theater, Dance and CS  Departments, Cummings Art Gallery, Greer Music Library, Communications, Information Services, Printing Services, Media Services, Theater Services, Campus Safety, Facilities, Office of Events and Catering; Judith Ammerman 60, Diane Y. Williams 59; Hygienic Art Galleries, Daddy Jacks Restaurant.

Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
Andrea Wollensak, Center Director
Libby Friedman, Asst. Director, Symposium Coordinator
Nadav Assor, Assoc. Director, Gallery Curator
Lyndsay Bratton, Assoc. Fellow
Shawn Hove, Assoc. Fellow, Certificate Program Liaison
James Lee, Assoc. Fellow
Wendy Moy, Assoc. Fellow, Music Curator and Commissions Liaison
Jim McNeish, Fellow, Music Technical Director
Arthur Kreiger, Fellow, Music Curator
Asha Tamarisa, Guest Curator: Experimental Sound Performance
Denise Pelletier, Fellow, Cummings Exhibition Liaison
Susie Scheyder:  Program Assistant
Sarah Hyde, Emily Kim: Student Assistants