Constant Capture 2006 Conference</ title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="css/cie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">  </head> <body><table width="840" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="6" align="right" valign="top"><a href="index.html" name="top"><img src="images/text.gif" vspace="12" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan ="6" height="10"> </td> </tr> <tr align="left" valign="middle"> <td width="16%"> <h3><a href="mailto:leephaib@uwm.edu?subject=Constant%20Capture%20Registration">Registration</a></h3></td> <td width="16%"><h3><a href="program.html">Program</a></h3></td> <td width="16%"><h3><a href="http://www.uwm.edu/map/buildings/vt-hcc-prof.html" target="_blank">Directions</a></h3></td> <td width="16%"><h3> <a href="Photos.html">Photos</a></h3></td> <td width="16%"><h3><a href="abstracts.html">Abstracts</a></h3></td> <td width="16%"><h3><a href="participants.html">Participants</a></h3></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="6" height="40"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="20"> </td> <td> <h2>Participants</h2> <table width="740" border="0" ce llspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text" height="4"> </td> <td class="text"> </td> <td class="text"> </td> <td class="text"> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text"><b>Conference Organizers </b></td> <td class="text"><a href="#petro">Patrice Petro</a></td> <td class="text"><a href="#hall">Lane Hall</a></td> <td cl ass="text"><a href="#mckenzie">Jon McKenzie</a></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text" height=20> </td> <td> </td> <td class="text"> </td> <t d class="text"> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text"><b>Conference Panelists </b></td> <td> </td> <td class="text"> </td> <td class="text" > </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="25%" class="text"><a href="#alinder">Jasmine Alinder</a><br> <a href="#aneesh">A. Aneesh</a><br> <a href="#blazevic"><span lang="sh">Marin Blaževi ć</span></a><br> <a href="#derian">James Der Derian</a></td> <td width="25%"><p class="text"> <a href="#dominguez">Ricardo Dominguez</a><br> <a href="#ghose">Rina Ghose</a><br> <a href="#paik">Nan Kim-Paik</a>< br> <a href="#levine">Caroline Levine</a> </p> </td> <td width="25%" class="text"><a href="#marino">Melanie Mariño</a><br> <a href="#mcgrath">John E. McGrath</a><br> <a href="#parks ">Lisa Parks</a><br> <a href="#sholette">Gregory Sholette</a> </td> <td width="25%" class="text"> <a href="#trocchi">Agnese Trocchi</a><br> <a href="#weems">Marianne Weems</a><br> <a href="#wilding">Faith Wilding</a><b r> <a href="#williams">Mark Williams</a></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text" height=20> </td> <td> </td> <td class="text"> </td> <td c lass="text"> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text"><b>Panel Moderators</b> <br> <a href="#blasini">Gilberto Blasini </a></td> <td class="text"><a hr ef="#braman">Sandra Braman</a><br> <a href="#hartwig">Kurt Hartwig</a> <br></td> <td class="text"><a href="#malaby">Thomas Malaby</a><br> <a href="#oren">Tasha G. Oren</a></td> <td class="text"><a href="#rappaport">Mat Rappaport</a><br> <a href="#sands">Peter Sands</a></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="text" height=30> </td> <td> < /td> <td class="text"> </td> <td class="text"> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="text"><b><a name="alinder">Jasmine Alinder</a></b> is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and teaches classes in visual culture and public history. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan, specializing in the history of photograph y. She is completing a book manuscript on photography and Japanese American incarceration during World War II and working on a documentary film about Milwaukee socialism. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a > <a href="abstracts.html#alinder">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="aneesh">A. Aneesh</a></b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the Universi ty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of <i>Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization</i> (forthcoming), which examines how new technologies of globalization effect a break with previous notions of labor migra tion. Aneesh is currently completing a study of international call centers located in India, a research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation’s Program in Global Security and Sustainability.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#aneesh">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="blasini">Gilberto Blasini</a></b> is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Englis h at UWM. Last year he organized the conference "Cinematic Dislocations and Relocations: Contemporary Cinemas of Latin America, the Caribbean and their Diasporas." </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"> <b><a name="blazevic"><span lang="sh">Marin Blažević</span></a></b> is Assistant Lecturer and Assistant Researcher in the Department of Dramaturgy and Theory at the Academy of Drama Arts at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He publishes widely on contemporary performance practice. He has co-edited several books and special issues of the performing arts magazine Frakcija, most recently Reflections on the Process / Performance: A Reading Companion to Goat Island's «When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy» (co-edited with Matthew Goulish) and <i>Bra nko Gavella: Theory of Acting – from material to personality</i>, co-edited with Nikola Batušic. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#blazevic ">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="braman">Sandra Braman</a></b> is Professor of Communication at UWM. She has been studying the macro-level effects of informational meta-technologies (digital, biological, and nano) for over 20 years. Her most recent of five books is <i>Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power</i>, and she is currently doing research on transformations of the legal system to serve technologies rather than people.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#t op">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="derian">James Der Derian</a></b> is Research Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he directs the Global Security Program, the Global Media Project and the I nfoTechWarPeace Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies. His most recent book is <i>Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network </i>(2001). He is also the producer of two documentaries, <i>VirtualY2K </i> (2000) and <i>After 9/11</i> (2004). </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#derian">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="domi nguez">Ricardo Dominguez</a></b> is co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater, Co-Director of the Thing (an ISP for artists and activists), and a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. He also recently became an Assistant Professor at the University of California-San Diego in the Visual Arts Department and at the new edge technology institute CAL IT2, where he will be researching and developing a performance project on nanotechnology. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#dominguez">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="ghose">Rina Ghose</a></b> is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research and teaching interests include Geographic Information Science (GIS) and Society, Public Participation GIS, Qualitative Res earch Methods in GIS, Societal Implications of Digital Technology, Urban Geography Gentrification, Growth Management, Smart Growth Movement, and New Urbanism in India and South Asia. Among her recent published essays is &ldqu o;The complexities of citizen participation through collaborative governance,” which appeared in <i>Space and Policy</i> in 2005. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> &nbs p; <a href="abstracts.html#ghose">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="hall">Lane Hall</a></b> is Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Visual Art, Peck School of th e Arts, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His books, prints and installations have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe. Recent projects include installations at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Post Gallery in Los Angeles, Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and The Milwaukee Art Museum. He was co-curator of the exhibition Animal Nature at Carnegie Mellon Universit y and is the co-creator of the Criminal Animal website (along with artist Lisa Moline) which serves as a repository for art and research focused on animal study, and which served as the genesis of the Animal Nature exhibition.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="hartwig">Kurt Hartwig</a></b> is the founder and Director of the arts collective Bad Soviet Habits. He writes for theater and film, and te aches dramaturgy and history for UWM's Theater Department. His current project is a stage adaptation of Timothy Garton Ash's Cold War memoir THE FILE.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="p aik">Nan Kim-Paik</a></b> is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. She has been awarded fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Korea Foundation, and the Fulbright prog ram. She also worked for several years as a journalist, and her writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Arte Internacional (Bogotà) and on the Reuters international newswire. She is currently Academic Programs Specialist in Global Studies at the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> &n bsp;<a href="abstracts.html#paik">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="levine">Caroline Levine</a></b> is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first book, <i>The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt</i> (2003), won the Perkins Prize for the best contribution to narrative studies in 2004. A second book, <i>Why Democracy Needs the Arts</i>, is forthcoming in 2007. Aside from her work in Victorian studies, she has published articles on contemporary artists, including Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, and Andreas Gursky. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> &nb sp; <a href="abstracts.html#levine">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="malaby">Thomas Malaby</a></b> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UWM. He studies the role of games and contingency in society. Last year he was a co-organizer of CIE’s Annual Conference “Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace.” </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"> <b><a name="marino">Melanie Mariño</a></b> is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. Bef ore her arrival at UWM, she taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and worked in research and curatorial capacities at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum. She is currently writing an article on the art theory and practice of Daniel Buren for the anthology "Key Contemporary Thinkers" and preparing a book manuscript on conceptual photography. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="mcgrath">John E. McGrath</a></b> wrote <i>Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space</i> (2004). He is Artistic Direc tor of Contact, Manchester, an award winning theatre which produces and presents the best of contemporary performance in a vibrant, young and diverse environment. Recent directing work includes the c yber-love story <i>Perfect</i> by Kaite O’Reilly and Paul Clay, Lemn Sissay’s <i>Storm</i> and <i>Something Dark</i> and Jeff Noon’s <i>Somewhere the Shadow</i>. He is currently the recipient of a Cultural Leadership Award from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstra cts.html#mcgrath">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="mckenzie">Jon McKenzie</a></b> is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Modern Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milw aukee, where he teaches courses in performance studies and civil disobedience. He is the author of <i>Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance</i> (2001), as well as numerous essays, including “Democracy’s Performance,” “Laurie Anderson for Dummies,” and “Towards a Sociopoetics of Interface Design: etoy, etoys, and TOYWAR,” and a broadcast radio commemoration of the 1986 shuttle disaster titled “CINC: A Challenger Radio Drama.” He is currently working on two projects, a second book, whose working title is <i>Performance Inc: Global Performativity and Mediated Resistance</i>, and an ant hology co-edited with Heike Roms and Wan-ling Wee titled <i>Contesting Performance: Global Genealogies of Research</i>.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="oren">Tasha G. Oren </a></b>is Associate Professor of English at UWM. She is also the author of <i>Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television</i>, co-editor of <i>Global Currents: Media and Technology Now</i>, and <i>East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture</i>. She researches and teaches courses in Film and Media Theory, Globalization, Media history, Screenwriting, and Popular Culture.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</ a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="parks">Lisa Parks</a></b> is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She is the author of <i>Cultures in Orbi t: Satellites and the Televisual</i> (2005) and co-editor of <i>Planet TV: A Global Television Reader</i> (2003). She is also a collaborator on several media art projects including Experiments in Satellite Media Arts and LOOM, and is a co-investigator in an international research initiative called the Transcultural Geographies Project with colleagues from Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia and Turkey. She is currently working on a new book called <i>Mixed Signals: Media Technologies and Cultural Geography</i>. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#parks"> panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="petro">Patrice Petro</a></b> is Professor of English, Film Studies, and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is also Director of the C enter for International Education and Senior International Officer for the campus. She is author, editor, and co-editor of seven books, including <i>Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany</i> (1989), <i>Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video</i> (1995), <i>Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History</i> (2001), <i>Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights</i> (2002), <i>Globa l Cities: Cinema, Architecture and Urbanism in a Digital Age</i> (2003), <i>Global Currents: Media and Technology Now</i> (2004) and <i>Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the War on Terror</i> (forthcoming 2006). She is President-Elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="rappaport">Mat Rappaport</a></b> is Assistant P rofessor of Visual Art at UWM. He is also a multimedia artist who explores the space between experience and memory formation through the use of immersive, interactive and media based structures that implicate the viewer’s own re/colle ctive processes. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="sands">Peter Sands</a></b> is Associate Professor of English at UWM. His current work is on utopianism in legal regimes and cyberspace. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="sholette">Gregory Sholette</a></b> is a New York City based artist, writer and co-founder of the artist collectives REPOhis tory and PAD/D. Recent exhibitions include A Knock At The Door at The Cooper Union and a film screening at the Anthology Film Archives. His work has appeared at the the Museum of Modern Art, Dia Art Foundation, th e New Langton Arts, and Exit art. Sholette is co-editor with Nato Thompson of <i>The Interventionists: A Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life</i> (2004 & 2005) and <i>Collectivism After Modernism</i>, co-edited with Blake Stimson (2006). He teaches classes in critical theory at New York University. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> & nbsp; <a href="abstracts.html#sholette">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="trocchi">Agnese Trocchi</a></b> is an artist, writer and videomaker based in Rome, Italy and has been active since 1995 i n the field of Information and Communication Technology. She has developed practical experiences with grassroots media in self-managed communities including bbs, television, internet and satellite broadcasting. Sh e is co-founder of CandidaTV and also collaborates with the video archive and distribution project NewGlobalVision and the telestreet network. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> ; <a href="abstracts.html#trocchi">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="weems">Marianne Weems</a></b> is a two-time OBIE award-winning director of multimedia theater. She is Artistic Director of The Builders Association and has directed all of their productions, working with architects (Diller + Scofidio), multicultural artists (London’t motiroti), the virtual design studio dbox, and many other performance and media artists. Her productions have toured internationally to venues including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, London’s Barbican Theatre, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, RomaEuropa Festival, and the Singapore Arts Festival. Before starting her company, she worked as a dramaturg and Assistant Director with Susan Sontag, The Wooster Group, and many others. She recently completed a multimedia workshop with Disney Creative Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering. She is also at work on a new theater/music event with David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, titled <i>Here Lies Love</i>. </ p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#weems">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="wilding">Faith Wilding</a></b> is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. She works both independently and with subRosa, a cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using BioArt and tactical performance. This research explores and critiques the intersecti ons of information and biotechnologies in women's bodies, lives, and work. Wilding is Associate Professor and Chair of Performance Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. </p> <p class="abstract"><a href=" #top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#wilding">panel abstract</a></p> <p class="text"><b><a name="williams">Mark Williams</a></b> is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Fi lm and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He has published in a variety of journals and anthologies, including <i>New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality</i>, <i>Collecting Visible Evidence</i>, <i>Television, History, and American Culture</i>, and <i>Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Television</i>. His book <i>Remote Possibilities: A History of Early Television in Los Angeles</i>, will be published by Duke University Press.</p> <p class="abstract"><a href="#top">return to top</a> <a href="abstracts.html#williams">panel abstract</a></p> < /td> <td width="80"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>