Ingenuity
This track illuminates the creative potentials of emerging media paradigms, and how the new means of production reflect on the state of the culture and propose new directions. These panels showcase a spectrum of new practices and frame a dialogue on issues of creativity, imagination and power. Track co-chairs are Sarah Drury, Temple University professor & new media artist and Caroline Savage, Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute and studio faculty, Dickinson College.
This track will take on subjects/topics of interest to:
Filmmakers, artists, media collectives, new technologists, media arts center staff, community technology center staff, journalists, activists, educators & funders.
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Panel Previews
FREEDOM - Thursday, September 29
Arts of Body Extension, Augmentation & Amplification
As the human-computer interface becomes part of everyday life, media artists are working with wearable devices and responsive environments. These works raise paradoxical themes embracing both empowerment and social control. From assistive devices to electronic surveillance chips to interactive fashion, these panelists explore a more intimate relationship between digital media and the body, and the liberatory/repressive potentials of that intimacy.
10:30 am - noon
Panelists
Marlon Barrios-Solano, Ohio State University
Shelly Barry, Temple University
Arthur Elsenaar, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Remko Scha, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation,
University of Amsterdam
Sabine Seymour, Moondial
Moderator: Ellen Zweig, writer, performance and video artist
Narrative Mapping and Network Storytelling
This panel looks at the current explosion of wireless media and communications. Mobile devices are enabling new forms of distributed storytelling and narrative mapping. Whether wirelessly connecting public spaces to the internet, or proposing off-the-grid subnetworks of local users, locative media are reconfiguring our relationship to place & community, and cutting across existing categories of art, culture and communications.
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Panelists:
Mendi Obadike, interdisciplinary artist
Teri Rueb, Rhode Island School of Design
Nick West, Goldsmith College, University of London
Moderator:Hana Iverson, Temple University
CREATIVITY - Friday, September 30
Cinema in Transmission: New Languages / New Reception
Interactivity, database structure and online media exchange have long been re-shaping cinematic language, infusing traditional narrative with new paradigms and inspiring new ways of making and viewing media. How do databases, instant publication and distributed authorship change the way we look at moving images? This panel considers the current state of hybrid filmmaking and explores evolving issues in non-linear film language.
10:30 am - noon
Panelists:
Roderick Coover, Temple University
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab
Jen Simmons, filmmaker & web based artist
Moderator: Marsha Kinder, The Labyrinth Project, USC
New Media Architectures
More and more of the surfaces in our daily lives have become potential media screens -- from cellphones to billboards, in bars, homes and cars -- resulting increasingly in a public environment of ambient media. While commercialism pervades this media landscape, this panel considers established and current uses of video as a spatial medium: installation, club scene VJ-ing, interactive video driven by the physicality of viewers. Engaging the moving image in the context of social and psychic spaces, the focus is on a continuum of art practice through evolving media and conceptual paradigms.
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Panelists:
Doug Bohr, Fabric Workshop & Museum
Hilary Harp, independent artist &
Suzy Silver, Carnegie Mellon University
Art Jones, VJ and new media artist
Galen Joseph Hunter, free103point9
Moderator: Graham Weinbren, Millennium Film Journal
RISK - Saturday, October 1
New News
Who's making news? Blogging, scratch-mixing and interactive magazines have opened up alternative information channels, resulting in stories that aren't being told elsewhere, in languages that reach listeners who might not listen in otherwise, and that connect viewers and the subjects of the stories themselves. This panel focuses on information platforms that provide new opportunities for creative engagement and point-to-point delivery of the news.
10:30 am - noon
Panelists:
Jared Ball, Free Mix Radio
Joanna Bouldin, Temple University
Paul Jay, Independent World Television
Josue Rojas, YO! Magazine
Moderator: Fred Ritchin, Pixel Press
New Economies of Information Production
This panel looks critically at new institutional alliances that support independent production within and outside the mainstream. Ever-larger corporate media structures, the increasing privatization of arts and media funding, and the need for higher levels of funding to support changing technologies, have generated unlikely partnerships. The discussion will focus on possible relationships between media subcultures and corporate funding sources, bringing out crucial issues of compromise, infiltration and the balancing act.
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Panelists:
Roberto Bedoya, independent writer and arts consultant
Jennifer Dorner, Media Arts Association (Canada)
Trebor Scholz, Institute for Distributed Creativity, SUNY Buffalo
Moderator:Wayne Ashley, Thundergulch, Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council
Track Chair Bios
Sarah Drury
Temple University professor & new media artist
Sarah Drury is an Assistant Professor at Temple University's Film & Media Arts Program. She received a BA from Barnard College, an MPS at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and an MA in Photography at the joint program of the International Center of Photography and NYU. She is a new media artist working with interactive video song and lyrical narrative in forms including performative installation, wearable interfaces, interactive video and the artist's book. Her installations, including "The Listening Microphone," "Voicebox," "Vocalalia" and "Intervention Chants," explore the expressive qualities of the voice in interaction with video and sound. She has received grants including an NEA Artists Fellowship and from the TU Vice Provost's Research Initiative. Her work has been presented in national and international venues such as ISEA 2002, ACM Multimedia '98, Performative Sites 2001, the Brooklyn Museum, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Hallwalls, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Worldwide Video Festival at the Hague and on PBS. Her work on translating the energetic and sonic qualities of the voice into visual images led her to the design of assistive devices that use voice and movement input to enhance expressive possibilities for people with disabilities. Drury has been a faculty member of the NYU Art & Media Program and served on the faculty of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Contact Sarah Drury.
Caroline Savage
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute and studio faculty, Dickinson College
Caroline Savage teaches primarily at the San Francisco Art Institute and Dickinson College. Her work incorporates darkroom processes, digital manipulation, film projections/installations, and video. She teaches filmmaking at the SF Art Institute and Photography and Time-Based Media Art at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. She also teaches Photography at York College and Avant-Garde Film and Video History at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She was the Fellowship, Media Arts, and Visual Arts Program Director at the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts from 1992-2003. She was a juror for the Golden Gate Awards for the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2005.
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