New Media Workshop

Captive Senses & Aesthetic Habits

“Captive Senses and Aesthetic Habits,” a joint graduate conference at the University of Chicago between English Language & Literature and Art History, will take place October 8-9, 2009.

Keynote: Michael Taussig (NYU)

The conference is generously supported by the Departments of English Language & Literature and Art History, the Division of the Humanities, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, and the Center for Gender Studies.

For further information on the conference theme, and details for submitting paper proposals, see the Call For Papers. Please contact us at ucgradconf@gmail.com with any questions or comments.

Thursday, September 17, 6pm
Gene Siskel Film Center

GOLAN LEVIN

Golan Levin in person!
Whimsical, provocative, and sublime, the work of new media artist Golan Levin explores the possibilities of code, screens, interactivity, and our relationship with machines. Levin creates collaborative digital systems, resulting in performances like Dialtones (A Telesymphony) (2001), a musical composition with sounds generated through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones; software art such as The Dumpster: A Visualization of Romantic Breakups (2005), which offers novel perspectives on online communications; and installations like Eyecode (2007), which generates imagery from its viewer’s eyes. Levin will discuss these works and more in an interactive screening and lecture. Co-presented by the Department of Interactive Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago. 1997–2009, USA, multiple formats, ca. 90 min.

GOLAN LEVIN (b. 1972, USA) is an artist and engineer whose work focuses on the language of interactivity—verbal, vocal, and visual. He has spent half his life as an artist embedded within technological research environments, including the MIT Media Laboratory, the Ars Electronica Futurelab, and the former Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto. His work has exhibited widely across North America, Europe, and Asia, including at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kitchen, and the Neuberger Museum, all in New York; the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, among other venues. Levin is currently the director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds Courtesy Appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of Design. His work is represented by the bitforms gallery, New York City. Visit www.flong.com.

CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

http://dhcs.iit.edu

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009
DHCS Colloquium: November 14 – 16, 2009
Location: The Illinois Institute of Technology

The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.

The theme of this year’s Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Critical Computing”, seeking to explore how productive research collaborations between computer scientists and humanists can be most effective.

* How might computation provide new critical tools for humanists?
* How might humanists help us understand the real meaning and import of computational results?

We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science.

We welcome submissions of proposal for:

* Paper presentations (20 minute maximum)
* Poster presentations
* Software demonstrations
* Panel discussions
* Performances
* Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars
* Pre-conference “birds of a feather” meetings

Keynote Speakers:

* Dr. Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science.
* Prof. Vasant Honavar, director of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, & Discovery at Iowa State University.
* Prof. Roger Dannenberg, Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry.

Sponsored by:

The Illinois Institute of Technology
The University of Chicago
Northwestern University

Program Committee:

* Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library
* Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University
* Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
* Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago
* Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology

Preliminary Colloquium Schedule:

Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference session the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering introductory tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text analysis/data-mining or GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for informal “birds of a feather” meetings on topics of common interest (e.g. “digital archaeology”).

The formal DHCS colloquium program will runs on Sunday, November 15 and Monday, November 16. It will consist of several 1-1/2 hour presentation sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions. Generous time will be set aside for questions and follow-up discussions. There are no parallel sessions.

For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website.

Submission Format:

Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word (if necessary) format via http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009.

Graduate Student Travel Fund:

A limited number of bursaries will be available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. More information about the application process will be available soon.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, August 30
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14
Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 24
Registration opens: Tuesday, September 29

Contact Info:

Please email dhcs2009@iit.edu for more information.

Information about previous years’ colloquiua is available at http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu.

Cory Arcangel in person!
1998-2008, Cory Arcangel, USA, ca. 60 min.

March 19th, 6pm
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St

Best known for his Nintendo game cartridge hacks, multimedia trickster Cory Arcangel will provide an overview of his practice, possibly including his Super Mario movies, the epic performance piece “Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum,” and an archetypal “experimental film,” complete with digital scratches and Final Cut Pro countdown. Co-presented by SAIC’s Parlor Room. Various formats.

Cory Arcangel will be present for audience discussion.

Fast Forward is an immersive multimedia exploration of how our future lives are being shaped today. This exhibit spotlights some of today’s visionaries working toward a limitless, sustainable future.

From cuisine made by ink-jet printers, to urban high-rise farming, to instant-messaged hugs you can feel, you’ll meet pioneers working on these and other amazing ideas that could change the way we live. Inventors tell us in their own words how they’ve worked to take their ideas from “what if” toward “here’s how.”

Test-drive some of these innovations yourself. Add your own visual ideas to interactive displays. Live Internet news feeds about invention and technology show you the future of innovation as it takes shape, minute by minute. Pushing the boundaries of what we can imagine, the ideas and innovators in Fast Forward may even spark your own “what if.”

57th Street and Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60637

Friday 12/5 10:30 to 12:30 in Cobb 310

Ph.D. candidates Matt Hauske (Cinema & Media Studies), Peter Shultz (Music), and James Hodge (English) lead a mini-panel discussion on theories of play, including Caillois, Aarseth, Galloway, and focusing on Giorgio Agamben’s essay, “In Playland: Reflections on History and Play.” The discussion will focus on the relation of history and play.

In addition, we will play Wii and take a tour of the history of tennis in media art, and take a peek at the work of Cory Archangel. Join us for a fun end-of-the-quarter session!

Select Media Festival 7 opens November 14th and runs through November 22nd at the experimental cultural center, the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and other venues across the city. The seventh annual festival will feature video programs, art exhibitions, installations and presentations in conjunction with live music and action. This year as part of the festival we are unveiling a new art space, Eastern Expansion and a new monthly art happening for Chicago: The Bridgeport Art District (B.A.D.).

This year please enjoy INFOPORN. Join us as we investigate the art of information design and data visualization. We will be featuring some of the best work in the design and arts fields from an international group of scientists, artists and graphic designers.

The festival is produced by the non-profit arts organization, Public Media Institute, and is organized by artists, musicians and cultural workers based in Chicago.

Questions? Please feel free to email edmarlumpen(at)gmail.com or call 773.837.0145.

Films of Peter Tscherkassky
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 7pm
Cobb 307 5811 S. Ellis
Film Studies Center

Beautiful and haunting, acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s films employ re-photographed found footage in the tradition of structural filmmaking to hugely kinetic effect. This selection of films from throughout Tscherkassky’s career provides a valuable introduction to an essential filmmaker. Screening will include:

FREEZE FRAME (1983, 16mm, 9 minutes)
SHOT-COUNTERSHOT (1987, 16mm, 1 minute)
TABULA RASA (1987/1989, 16mm, 18 minutes)
PARALLEL SPACE: INTER-VIEW (1992, 16mm, 18 minutes)
HAPPY-END (1996, 16mm, 12 minutes)
L’ARRIVEE (1997/1998, 35mm, 2 minutes)
OUTER SPACE (1999, 35mm CinemaScope, 10 minutes)

Sponsored by:
The Film Studies Center, the Experimental Film Club, the Committee on Cinema & Media Studies and the University of Chicago Activity Fee

filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu

Speech, Privacy, and the Internet: The University and Beyond

November 21-22 (Fri & Sat)

Courtroom, Law School, 1111 E 60th St

Co-organizers: Martha Nussbaum, Cass Sunstein

Keynote: Lawrence Lessig (Stanford)

The conference is devoted to an interdisciplinary discussion of the legal and ethical issues posed by the new ways in which privacy can be invaded. The current rise in invasive personal gossip, much of it anonymous and much of it directed at students, often by other students, creates an atmosphere that threatens to disrupt the climate of instruction. On the other hand, restrictions on such internet sites raise delicate free speech issues. What challenges do these developments raise on campus, and what direction should universities take to meet these challenges?

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Prof. Andrew Raffo Dewar (Music, Univ. Alabama) discusses his paper, “Sonic Arts Union: Aesthetics of an American ‘Tinkering’ Technoculture.”

Friday 11/14 10:30 to 12:30
Cobb 310