SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
8:45-9:00am: Virtual coffee
9:00-9:15am: Welcome, Ellen Larson 9:15-9:45am: Keynote, Barbara London
9:45-10:45am: Panel 1 ACTIVATED VIRTUALITIES
Jori Snels, University of Amsterdam
“The in-between-space: Reimaginations of virtual being in aaajiao’s + Lu Yang’s videogame art”
Sarah Myers, Stony Brook University
“When a Black Man’s Blue: HBO’s: Watchmen and the Draw of the Alternate History Genre”
Frederica Simmons, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota "Ephemeral Movements: Mapping Anti-Racist Protest Art"
10:45-11:15am: Alison, Langmead, Faculty Respondent + Audience Q&A
11:15-11:30am: Break
11:30am-12:30pm: Panel 2 VIRTUAL PRACTICALITIES
Luise Mörke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
“Insubstantial Actualities: The digital and the analogue in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021)”
Gene Anthony Santiago-Holt, University of Delaware “Noise, Performance, and Puerto Rican (Taino) Futurism”
Xiaofan Wu, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University "A Live Stream that May Last for Years"
12:30-1:00pm: Josh Ellenbogen, Faculty Respondent + Audience Q&A
1:00-2:00pm: Break
2:00-2:40pm: Panel 3 - GEOSPATIAL BORDERS
Cindy Evans, Florida State University
“Frieder Nake and the Ethics of Cold War Computer Art”
Clara Royer Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
“Allocating the Bandwidth: Slow-Scan and the New World Information Order (1978-1990)” 2:40-3:10pm: Jennifer Josten, Faculty Respondent + Audience Q&A
3:10-3:30pm: Break
3:30-4:30pm: Panel 4 - FUTURISTIC REALITIES
Isaiah Bertagnolli, University of Pittsburgh
“‘More Human than Human’: Virtual Humanisms in the Blade Runner Universe”
Sophia Salinas, Southern Methodist University
“Cyber Touch: The Body and Transgression in Cyberfeminist Art Practices”
Cory Wayman, University of Utah
“She Lies, She Cries: Currencies of Affect, Beauty & Performance in Leah Rachel’s Curious Female Casting Couch (2017)”
4:30-5:00pm: Terry Smith, Faculty Respondent + Audience Q&A
5:00-5:15pm: Closing remarks, Ellen Larson
https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99959033357
Meeting ID: 999 5903 3357
Passcode: virtual