Linda Williams at UCR

Screening Sex:

2pm June 1st, 2005.

HMNSS 1500

• Linda Williams: UC Berkeley
• Jeremy Kaye
• Jack Beckham
• Allison De Fren "ASFR"

Focussing on sex.

May 25 Lisa Nakamura

See more in first comment

Gallery of Works

Below are the works to be presented in the UCR (dis)junctions conference galllery.

Location: English Lobby HMNSS 1st floor

“The Villager Girl and the Teenbot”
Christy Dena University of Melbourne
(see Text Beside Computer)

“Literatronica”
Juan B. Gutierrez, Florida State University

“Six Shoestring Suspects”
Katrice J. Grayson, Jennifer Krasula and Sarena Lee, DePaul University

"Bush Text"
Peter Vandenberg, DePaul University

See First Comment for Full Description

March 3/30 Turing Talk

Do Androids Dream?

The Legacy of The Turing Test

Saul Traiger Professor of Cognitive Science & Philosophy, Occidental College

Stephanie August Professor of Computer Science, Loyola Marymount University

Join us for a series of talks on the Turing Test, "Blade Runner" and Turing's influence across disciplines. (more in comment 1.)

Adaptable Girl Workshop 2/28

global_interface Mellon Workshop and Adaptable Girl Performance Collective present:
Singing G4’s Song:
Digital-on-Human Performance Practice in Late Capitalism
Monday, February 28, 2005
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Arts Building 166 (Performance Lab)
UC Riverside

Description: The merging of virtual and real audio spaces through the proliferation of digital tools has dramatically impacted praxis for a number of artistic genres. This performance/lecture brings together musicians and dancers in an improvisational installation that explores the extension of live performance through digital processing. Featuring music, dance and video, the work will also deploy a number of digital performers, including programmed audio improvisers (in max), digital cameras, even an Ipod. The performers will discuss the installation and the broader impact that digital technologies have had on their own artistic practice.

Adaptable Girl Performers:

Ramie Becker is a Ph.D student in Dance History and Theory.
Renee Coulombe is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition.
Maria de los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves is first year MFA student in Creative writing and Writing for the Performing Arts.
Isabel Valverde, a choreographer/performer and researcher, recently completed her Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory at UC Riverside, and is presently pursuing a postdoctoral program at UC Irvine.
Elizabeth Venable is a Ph.D. student in the Dance Department.

Bookchin talk 1.25.05

Gravedigging and the Internet - A Proposal for the Future
A talk by Natalie Bookchin
Co-Director of the Photography and Media Program, CalArts.

Time: 12:30 pm-2:30 pm, Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Location: Humanities 1500

In this talk, Natalie Bookchin will examine debates about the life and death of net art, framing it within broader conversations proposing the ends of the avant-garde and of utopia in art, political thought, and early visions of the Internet. Attempting to resurrect some supposedly "dead ideas", this talk will offer a proposal for a speculative social network for the future, where visual artists use the Internet to gain more control of the reception and circulation of their work and ideas. In imagining this network, Bookchin will cull from grassroots strategies used and proposed by net art, alternative music, and blogging independent journalists.

Based in L.A., Natalie Bookchin has been creating online projects since 1997. She recently worked with political theorist Jackie Stevens to initiate and develop the first phase of the online project agoraXchange , an online collaboration for imagining and building a massive multiplayer online game that offers a tangible political alternative to our current world order. She is known internationally for her online art work, including a project entitled Metapet , a parody of capitalist productivity in which the player must maximize the profit margin without alienating the Metapet worker. She is a recent recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is exhibited at institutions world-wide including PS1, Mass MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, KunstWerke, Berlin, the Generali Foundation, Vienna, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Shedhale in Zurich.

See these online works by Natalie Bookchin:

agoraXchange: (in collaboration with Jackie Stevens)

Metapet

Intruder

New Media CFPs for disjunctions conference

CFP: (dis)junctions: Multiple-Media Panels (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)

1. Media Crossings: Intersections of Film, Television,
and Digital Culture
2. Online Gaming and Society
3. Original Hypermedia, Net.Art, Mods, Flash
4. Eliterature and Cybertext Theory
5. Chatbots, IF, and Textual Exchange
6. Cybersexualities: Sex, Dating, and Desire in Virtual Spaces

This is a call for multiple proposed panels to be held at (dis)junctions: theory reloaded at the University of California Riverside’s 12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

more info available in comments!