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Program - Hefter Conference Center

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Friday, April 21

9:00 - 9:15am

Welcome & Opening Statements - Abbas Ourmazd, Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, and CIE Director Patrice Petro

9:15 – 10:45am

Data Interventions
Moderator: Patrice Petro
James Der Derian, Brown University, “Global Media Interventions”
John McGrath, Manchester Theatre, “I Love the Smell of Data in the Morning”

10:45 – 11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00pm

Counter-Surveillance
Moderator: Tasha Oren
Ricardo Dominguez, University of California- San Diego, “Visibility and the New MESH: The History and Future of Tactical Media, Strategic Simulations, and Counter Surveillance Post 9/11”

12:00 – 1:00pm

Lunch break

1:00 – 2:30pm

Rights and Representations
Moderator: Gilberto Blasini
Jasmine Alinder, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “The Right to Representation: Toyo Miyatake's Camera as a Symbol of Japanese American Resistance to Incarceration”
Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Propaganda for Democracy: The Avant-Garde Goes to War”

2:30 – 3:15pm

Coffee Break/Installation Viewing, - Mat Rappaport and students

3:15 – 4:45pm 

New World Borders
Moderator: Sandra Braman
Agnese Trocchi, CandidaTV,  “A NET BEYOND: Visual Media and Communication Technologies in the Next World”
A. Aneesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Data Double: representing the unknown in global communication”

4:45 – 5:30pm

Wrap up – Jon McKenzie

7:30 – 9:00pm

Moderator: Jon McKenzie
Marianne Weems, The Builders Association, “SUPER VISION, dataveillance and crossmedia performance” (in Curtin Hall, room 175)


Saturday, April 22

9:00 – 9:15am

Welcome and Friday wrap up – Lane Hall

9:15 – 10:45am

Views From Above
Moderator: Peter Sands
Lisa Parks, University of California- Santa Barbara, “Points of Departure: The Culture of US Airport Screening” 
Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Complexities of Citizen Participation through Participatory GIS”

10:45 – 11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30pm

Anti-Performance
Moderator: Kurt Hartwig
Marin Blažević, University of University of Zagreb, Croatia, “Theatre Of/On Terror - spectator between oppression and expression” 
Melanie Mariño, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Borderlands”

12:30 – 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:00pm

Media Publics/Media Ritual
Moderator: Thomas Malaby
Nan Kim-Paik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Spectacle of Transparency: Media Rituals and the Reunions of North-South Korean Separated Families”
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College, “Closely Belated?  Thoughts on Real-Time Media Publics and Minority Report”

3:00 – 3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15 – 4:45pm

Persistent Resistance
Moderator: Mat Rappaport
Faith Wilding, Art Institute of Chicago, “The New Gold Standard: SmartMoms and Immortal Cells” 
Gregory Sholette, New York University, “Interventionist Art in the Age of Enterprise Culture”

4:45 – 5:30pm

Closing remarks and wrap up led by Patrice Petro, Lane Hall and Jon McKenzie