2012 Visual Studies Graduate Student Conference (April 5 & 6)
Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 4:17PM 2012 Visual Studies Graduate Student Conference
Click for Full Conference PosterConstructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order
The Graduate Program in Visual Studies at UC Irvine is pleased to present a two-day conference on constructing worlds. The conference program includes work that addresses constructed worlds in all their visual manifestations, taking into account the introduction of various technological, philosophical, and political developments in our contemporary cultural discourse which contain the power to not only construct new worlds, but also to redefine and destroy existing ones.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
LOCATION: HG 1030 (UCI)
WORLDING SHOWCASE (PechaKucha Night)
5:30pm Registration
6:30pm Opening Reception
7:00pm – 8:30pm Presentations [6 minutes, 40 seconds per presentation]
- Anna Kryczka (Visual Studies, UCI) and Robbie Kett (Anthropology, UCI) - Learning by Doing: Embodied/Material Encounters at the Farm
- Diego Costa (Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMap), USC) - Planeta Xuxa: Notes On The Sexuality of Brazilian Children
- Sam Close (Visual Studies, UCI) - Out of Character: Traces of the Real Spider-Man
- Meredith Goldsmith (Visual Studies, UCI) - What is a Global Body?
- Ellie Harmon (Informatics, UCI) - Smartphone: Entangled Stories of Users and Technologies
- Flora Kao (MFA, UCI) - Topophilia
- Kristen Galvin (Visual Studies, UCI) - Downtown
- Janny Li (Anthropology, UCI) - Spectral Science: Into the Experimental World of Ghost Hunters
- Jennifer Gutierrez (Comparative Literature, UCI) - Rambling in the Coatlicue State
- Marcel Brousseau (Comparative Literature, UCSB) - Cowboys, Indians, Posthuman Dynamos!: Machinic (other)Worlding in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
- Jaclyn Simon (Comparative Literature, USC) - Gómez-Peña: Poetic Communities Inhabiting the Terrain of the Imagination
- Christina Spiker (Visual Studies, UCI) - "When My Clothes Came to an End I Did Without Them": Going Native in Hokkaido, Japan
- Shane Breitenstein (Visual Studies, UCI) - Cruising the Suburbs: Public Sex in Disciplined Spaces
8:30pm – 9:00pm Q&A
Friday, April 6, 2012
LOCATION: HG 1010 (UCI)
CONFERENCE: Constructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order
9:00am Registration
9:45am Opening Remarks
10:00am - 12:00pm Panel I: Encounters
- Jessica D. Kaplan (Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara)
Entanglement and ideologies of landscape: responses to a Wari presence in Nasca, Peru
- Hannah Goodwin (Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
Between Maps and the Marvelous: Geographies of Outer Space in the Hubble Space Telescope’s Images
- Ksenia Fedorova (Cultural Studies Graduate Program, UC Davis)
Media Art Worlds. Strategies of Immersion
- Philip A. Lobo (Comparative Literature, University of Southern California)
Modeling Modernity: Word Building Practices in Nostromo and Tropico
Respondent: Bert Winther-Tamaki, Professor of Art History
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch Break
1:15pm – 3:00pm Panel II: Regulation
- Jennifer Grayburn (History of Art and Architecture, University of Virginia)
Constructing Power: St. Magnus Cathedral and the Medieval North Sea World
- Nick Welcome (Cultural Anthropology, UC Riverside)
The Smell of Petroleum: Signs of Contamination and the Un/Making of Toxic Worlds
- May Ee Wong (Cultural Studies Graduate Program, UC Davis)
Targeting Theory: Criticality and the City
Respondent: Lucas Hilderbrand, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies
[15 minute coffee break]
3:15pm - 5:15pm Panel III: Breakdown
- Steven A. Malcic (Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
Toward a Filmic Cartography of Spatial Practice: Separation and The Locative
- Steven G. Anderson (History, UC Riverside)
The Digital Ether: Deconstructing the Historical (Im)materiality of the Digital World
- Eric P. S. K. Morrill (Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
How To (Fail to) Build Meaning in Performing “Life”: Allan Kaprow’s Household (1964)
- A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz (Media Arts and Practice, School of Cinematic Arts,University of Southern California)
Minecraft Memorials: Deconstructing Virtual Worlds Through Artistic Interventions
Respondent: Peter Krapp, Professor of Film & Media Studies
[15 minute coffee break]
5:30pm – 7:00pm Keynote Address
- Lisa Parks, Professor of Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
The World from Above: Networked Visions of the US Drone War in Pakistan
Respondent: Victoria E. Johnson, Associate Professor and Chair of Film & Media Studies
7:00pm - 8:00pm Closing Reception
Reader Comments (5)
We're very excited about this! All events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Everyone is welcome!
Really looking forward to participating and attending! Great job putting this together -- the panels look fascinating!
Wow! Super job (conference peeps) on organizing this, and I'm really looking forward to the panels, and participating in the antics of PechaKucha night!
This is going to be a blast! We can't wait to hear everyone's presentation and enjoy the company.
Topics look fantastic for both the conference and the PechaKucha Night! Great job putting such an interesting conference together.