Current Schedule
The New Media Workshop meets Friday mornings from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Cobb 310.
2011-12 Academic Year
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WINTER TERM 2012
January 13: Hannah Frank (PhD student, CMS) presents her paper “The Invisible Visible and the Inaudible Audible: Testing the Limits of Vertov’s Kino-Eye.”
January 27: Peter Shultz (PhD candidate, Music) presents and discusses his paper “On Cues and Clues: Investigating Musical Space and Persona in L. A. Noire.”
February 10: This meeting has been cancelled.
February 24: A Q&A with Anthony McCall, in conjunction with the symposium Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Tradition – Anthony McCall 1970-79, 2001-, hosted by the Film Studies Center. Co-sponsored by the Mass Culture Workshop, Theater and Performance Studies Workshop, and the Contemporary Art Workshop. (Please note the change in meeting time and place: this meeting will take place in Cobb 307, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.)
March 7: Richard Jean So, Assistant Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, presents his paper “Litearary Information Warfare: Eileen Chang, the U.S. State Department, Cold War Media Aesthetics.” Co-sponsored by the American Literatures and Cultures Workshop. (Please note the change in meeting day, time and place: this meeting will take place in Rosenwald 405, at 4:30 PM on a Wednesday.)
March 9: Ian Jones (PhD student, CMS) presents the proposal for his dissertation, Getting to Know It All the Way: The Phenomenology of Videogame Worlds.
FALL TERM 2011
December 2: David Alworth (PhD candidate, English) presents “Site Reading: Pynchon’s Malta,” an essay being prepared for publication. Daniel Harris (PhD candidate, English) responds.
November 11: Tracy Fullerton, Associate Professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, presents on and discusses her recent work in game design.
October 28: Marianna Martin (PhD candidate, CMS) presents “Feminists and Fanboys: Constructing the Whedonverse,” a chapter from her dissertation.
October 14: Daniel Johnson (PhD student, CMS/EALC) presents “Animated Writing: Group Languages and Mediated Intimacy in Contemporary Japan.”
October 7: Michelle Menzies (PhD candidate, English) presents “An Aesthetics of Movement: Digital Cinema and Enlargement,” a chapter from her dissertation, Archives of Experience: Toward a Digital Aesthetics. Co-sponsored by the Mass Culture Workshop.
