New Media Workshop

Next Tuesday, Seong Un Kim, PhD candidate in the Department of History, will present “Keeping Television Pure and Clear: the Social Background of the Discourse on ‘Vulgar’ Television in Postwar Japan,” a chapter from his dissertation.

The New Media Workshop meets in Cobb 310, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.

The chapter is available here

To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu

Tuesday, February 5, Luke Stadel, PhD candidate in Northwestern’s Screen Cultures Program, will be presenting, “Two-Way TV: The Telephonic Model of Television Sound,” a draft of a chapter from his dissertation.

The New Media Workshop meets in Cobb 310, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.

The chapter is available here.

To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu

This Tuesday, November 27, Zachary Campbell, PhD candidate in Northwestern’s Screen Cultures Program, will be presenting, “The Wonders of Tape: Video Recording, Network Television, and Liveness,” a chapter from his dissertation.

The New Media Workshop meets in Cobb 310, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.

The chapter is available here.

To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu

The New Media Workshop will be co-sponsoring a panel entitled “Making Waves in Sound and Space,” which is part of the States of Suspension Conference being organized by the English and Art History departments. The panel runs from 9:45 to 11:15 in Classics 110, on Thursday, November 15.

The following papers will be presented during the panel:

Patrick Morrissey, University of Chicago, PhD student in English
“Birds on a Wire: Ezra Pound’s Songs of Suspension”

Steven Swarbrick, Brown University, PhD candidate in English
“Toward an Archaeology of Noise: Sound and Unsound in Shakespeare and New Media”

Samuel Jacobson, MIT, Master’s student in the history, theory and criticism of architecture and art
“White Space City: Disconnecting Architecture and its Other Spaces”

On Tuesday, November 13, Patrick LeMieux will be presenting Mechanics, Metagames, and Mario and demoing his game–co-designed with Stephanie Boluk–99 Exercises in Style. Patrick’s presentation is co-sponsored by the Contemporary Art Workshop.

Patrick’s essay–“Hundred Thousand Billion Fingers: Seriality and Critical Game Practices”–is available here (the essay begins on p. 14).

The New Media Workshop meets in Rosenwald 405, from 4:30 to 6:00pm

Patrick LeMieux is an artist, game designer, and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. As a member of s-1: Speculative Sensation Lab and the GreaterThanGames Lab, his art and research are centered around the phenomenology of nonhuman play, the temporality of computational media, and the convergence of leisure and labor in an information economy. Two recent projects include Open House (http://noplace.org/open_house), a telematic artwork for virtually squatting the US housing collapse, and Speculation (http://speculat1on.net), an alternatate reality game based on finance capitalism and the culture of greed on Wall Street. Patrick has been published in Leonardo, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, the Electronic Book Review, and has an essay forthcoming in the Digital Humanities Quarterly. He is currently co-authoring a monograph titled Metagaming: Alternative Histories of Play with Stephanie Boluk. For more information visit http://patrick-lemieux.com.

The 2012-13 year kicks off on Tuesday, October 9th with Daniel Johnson, PhD candidate in the Cinema & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Civilizations departments. Daniel will be presenting a paper entitled, “Game-Becoming Laughter.”

The New Media Workshop now meets in Rosenwald 405, from 4:30 to 6:00pm.

The paper is available here.

To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop co-coordinator Matthew Sims at mbsims [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

Abstract: 

“Let’s Play” recordings of video-game playthroughs have become 
a popular form of entertainment on video sharing sites like 
Youtube and Nicovideo. Although possibly first appearing as a 
variation of written or still-image walkthrough guides and  
evidence of high scores or speed runs these videos have also 
developed into a community-oriented space of communication 
with particular modes of discourse via the user comment 
sections. This paper will take up concepts of laughter, meta-
interaction, and anonymity in relation to the spoken, embodied 
performance of the player/uploader in the video and the 
written, anonymous discourse of the audience in the comments 
section in English and Japanese language "let's play" videos. 
What is the relationship between anonymous communication and 
ironic laughter? How do audiences experience different forms 
of “watching together” or a “double-vision” of screen-surfaces 
and visual content? These questions will serve as a spring-
board into a more abstract interrogation into the relationship 
between visual representation, written discourse, and 
anonymity on the internet.

In collaboration with Chicago Review and Poem Present, the New Media Workshop will be co-sponsoring a multimedia reading this Thursday by Stephanie Strickland and Judd Morrissey.

Thursday, May 31, 2012
7:30 PM
Rosenwald Hall, Room 405
1101 E. 58th Street

Refreshments will be served.

Please see the Chicago Review website, www.chicagoreview.org, for further details.

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Stephanie Strickland has published six books of print poetry, most recently Zone : Zero, and seven electronic poems, most recently Sea and Spar Between, a poetry generator written with Nick Montfort. Award-winning works include The Red Virgin, slippingglimpse, True North, V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, and Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot. She is interested in the relations between mathematics, science, technology and literature and has written critically about the new kinds of reading and writing the computer makes possible. A member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization, she co-edited the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection (2006). Two of her collaborative digital pieces appear online in Electronic Literature Collection/2 (2011).

Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist whose practice incorporates elements of experimental text generation, internet art, live performance, site-responsive installation, collective authorship and structured public participation. He is the creator of widely studied and anthologized digital literary works including The Precession (2011), The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), The Jew’s Daughter (2006), and My Name is Captain, Captain (2002). His projects are presented nationally and internationally in festivals, exhibitions, conferences and commission contexts. Judd is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a collaborator of the international performance collective, Goat Island, and is a fellow of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant program.