Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter

December 3-5, 2009
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University

Thursday, December 3, 2009

6:15pm
Conference Introduction
• Ellen Rooney, Chair and Professor of Modern Culture and Media; Professor of English, Brown University
• Michael Steinberg, Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Professor of History and Music, Brown University
• Tara McPherson, Associate Professor, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts; Editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

Keynote address

6:30pm
Introduction
Rebecca Schneider, Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University

Keynote Speaker
Diana Taylor, University Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish; Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, "The Digital As Anti-Archive?"

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2009

9:00 – 10:30am
Session 1:  Cellophane Memories on YouTube
Speakers:
• James Tobias, Digital Media Studies Faculty of the Department of English, University of California,/Riverside, “Teach Me How to ... Re-create Re-memory:  Archiving 'Chronic' Time”
• Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, "Publishing Learning from YouTube"

Moderator:
Philip Rosen, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

10:30 – 10:45am
Morning Break

10:45am – 12:15pm
Session 2:  Not Just Open / Source
Speakers:
• Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, India, "Caring beyond Owning: Lessons from Archivists”
• Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, "Evil Media: Making Good Use of Weights, Chains and Ranks"

Moderator:
Brian Goldfarb, Associate Professor of Communication, University of California/San Diego

12:15 – 1: 30pm
Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:30pm
Session 3:  Targeting Google Earth
Speakers:
• Lisa Parks, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies; Chair of Film & Media Studies, University of California/Santa Barbara, "Zeroing In: Infrastructure Ruins, Data Lands and Viral Videos"
• Trevor Paglen, Artist, writer, and experimental geographer, Department of Geography, University of California/Berkeley, “Controlling Heaven”

Moderator:
Mary Ann Doane, George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

3:30 – 3:45pm
Afternoon Break

3:45 – 5:15pm
Session 4:  Visualizing Visual Culture
(Brown based initiatives in digital humanities)
Speakers:
• Dietrich Neumann, Professor of History of Art & Architecture, Brown University
• David Cooper, Professor of Engineering, Brown University, "The Brown University REVEAL PROJECT: Acquiring, archiving, searching, and making complex inferences from information extracted from digital imagery"
• Harriette Hemmasi, University Librarian, Brown University, “Garibaldi on the Surface: An Interactive, Multi-Touch Research Environment”

Moderator:
John Cayley, Visiting Professor in Literary Arts, Brown University

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2009

9:00 – 10:30am
Session 5:  Archiving the Future
Speakers:
• Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, Associate Professor, Film Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, “The Future of Life on Mars: An Archival Project by Erkki Kurenniemi”
• Kelly Gates, Assistant Professor in Communications and Science Studies, University of California/San Diego, "Archiving the Face"

Moderator:
Joan Saab, Director, Visual and Cultural Studies Program; Associate Professor of Art History/Visual and Culture Studies, Rochester University

10:30 – 10:45am
Morning Break

10:45 – 12:15pm
Session 6:  Animating Histories
Speakers:
• Amelie Hastie, Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz, “Lupino TV: Television Theory, Archives, and Imagination”
• Abby Smith Rumsey, Director, Scholarly Communication Institute, University of Virginia Library, "Digital Archives: the Missing Context"

Moderator:
Lynne Joyrich, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

12:15 – 1:30pm
Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:30pm
Session 7:  Animating Archival Structures
Speakers:
• Ramesh Srinivasan, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California/Los Angeles, “De-stabilizing Archives through Performance, Incommensurability, and Fluid Ontologies”
• Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, "The Future of the Sonic Archive"
• Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media, University of California/Santa Cruz, “Public Records/Secret Publics: Information Architecture for New Political Subjects”

Moderator:
Michael Silverman, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

3:30 – 3:45pm
Afternoon Break

3:45 – 5:15pm
Concluding Roundtable
• James Chandler, Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities; Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. of English, University of Chicago
• Tara McPherson, Associate Professor, University of Southern California School of Cinema Arts; Editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.
• Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
• Michael Steinberg, Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Professor of History and Music, Brown University

Moderator:
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University