New Media Workshop

The Department of Cinema and Media studies presents its 8th annual graduate student conference, “Cinematic Diasporas: New Media Cultures and Experiences.”  This conference centers on the question, or rather metaphor, of whether various new media experiences and cultures can be understood as diasporas of cinema. In this manner, we wish to push the boundaries of the term ‘diaspora’ further, so that it may not only be used to describe dispersed populations, but also to describe dispersed forms of cinema.

Complete details available at the conference blog.

Anna Everett, Professor of Film, Television and New Media Studies and former Chair of the department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, author of Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (2009, SUNY Press) and co-editor with John T. Caldwell of New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality (2003, Routledge) will be delivering the keynote presentation for this conference, “‘If You Can Type, You Can Make Movies’: Ontologies of Cinematic Diasporas.”

Additionally, as part of her visit, Anna Everett will also be presenting a paper entitled “The Power of Play: The Portrayal and Performance of Race in Video Games” on Friday, April 13th at the Mass Culture Workshop (10:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Cobb 307).  For more information, and to download pre-circulated materials, visit here.

Film Studies Center: 5811 South Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 306, Chicago, IL

On Friday, February 24, the New Media, Mass Culture, Theater and Performance Studies, and Contemporary Arts workshops join together to host a conversation with the artist Anthony McCall.

Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, the historical importance of Anthony McCall’s work has been internationally recognized in such exhibitions as “Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-77” at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2), “The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies” at Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003-4), “The Expanded Eye” at Kunsthaus Zurich (2006), “Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006-7), “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image” at Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008), “The Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s”, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008), and “On Line”, Museum of Modern Art (2010-11).  McCall’s work has also been exhibited at, amongst others, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004, Tate Britain, London, 2004, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2006), Musée de Rochechouart, France (2007), SFMoMA (2007), Serpentine Gallery, London (2007-8), Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2009), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2010), Sprueth Magers/Ambika P3, London (2011), and Serralves, Porto (2011). A solo exhibition will open in April 2012 at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

McCall is currently working on an Arts Council England sculpture commission, which will be part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, to realize his Column in North-West England: a spinning column of cloud that rises vertically from the surface of the water into the sky.

The format of this workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for interested students and faculty to take part in a Q&A with McCall.  Recommended texts to read in preparation for the discussion are no longer available for download.

As a part of the cluster of events surrounding the symposium Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Transition: Anthony McCall 1970-1979, 2001–, the workshop joins two other events:

On Friday, February 24 through Saturday, February 25, Experimental Station (6100 S. Blackstone Ave.) will be exhibiting McCall’s pieces You and I, Horizontal (2005), Line Describing a Cone (1973), and Line Describing a Cone 2.0 (2010).

On Saturday, February 25, from 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM, the Film Studies Center will be hosting a symposium featuring an artist talk with McCall followed by a roundtable discussion.

Please note the change in time and place from the standard New Media workshop schedule:  This workshop will take place at 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (rather than the usual 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM) in Cobb 307 (rather than the usual Cobb 310).

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, which brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research, will be hosted by Loyola University Chicago on November 19-21, 2011.

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, which brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research, will be hosted by Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010.

It will be preceded by THATCamp Chicago, a “user-generated ‘unconference’ where humanists and technologists work together for the common good,” on November 20, 2010, also at Northwestern University.

Critical Computing:
Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

November 14-16, 2009

Illinois Institute of Technology
McCormick-Tribune Campus Center, 3201 S State St.
Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St.
Chicago, IL

http://dhcs.iit.edu

The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer
Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the
humanities and computer science to advance interdisciplinary
collaborations between the digital humanists and computer scientists,
advancing the area as a field of intellectual inquiry and identifying
new directions and perspectives for future research.

Such collaborative research poses both problems and opportunities:

* How can computation provide new critical and interpretative tools
for humanists?
* How can humanities scholarship help us understand the meaning and
import of computational analysis of human artifacts?

Program:      http://dhcs.iit.edu/program.html
Registration: http://dhcs.iit.edu/registration.html