11th Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference: "Environments and the Ecological Self"

The 11th Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference will be held at University of Rochester from April 6-8, 2017 on the theme "Environments and the Ecological Self." All sessions are free and open to the public without pre-registration.

Programme

April 6th, 2017

Evening
1o1, Goergen Hall, University or Rochester River Campus

5:00 — 6:30
Keynote
Rosalyn Deutsche, Barnard College
Louise Lawler’s Play Technique

6:30 — 7:30
Welcome Reception
The Hartnett Gallery, 2nd Floor, Wilson Commons, University or Rochester River Campus

April 7th, 2017

Morning
All public events on Friday will be held in Conference Room D, Humanities Center, 202 Rush Rhees Library, University or Rochester River Campus

8:00 — 8:30
Breakfast and Coffee/Tea

8:30 — 8:45
Opening Remarks

8:45 — 11:00
Panel 1: Dissolving the Self
Discussant: Leila Nadir

Karel Doing, University of the Arts London
Visualizing Growth and Decay, or How to Express Critical Post-humanism

Please join us for an evening of films and performances by Doing on Saturday. See below for details.

Allain Daigle, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Writhing World-Flesh: Exhausted Humanity in Leviathan (2012)

Emily Watlington, MIT
Learning to Die Anew: The Video Sculptures of Shigeko Kubota

11:00 — 11:15
Snack Break

11:15 — Noon
Film Screening
Neil Sanzgiri, At The Top of Grasshopper’s Hill

Afternoon

Noon — 1:00
Lunch Break

1:00 — 2:45
Panel 2: Spatial Subjects
Discussant: A. Joan Saab

Neil Sanzgiri, MIT
Ecologies of The Black Palace:
Subjugation and Representation in the National General Archives of Mexico

Dimitri Brand, Yale School of Architecture
A View from A to B: The New Temporal Infrastructure

S. Alana Wolf Johnson, University of Rochester
Clean Ears, Soundmarks, and Schizophonia: Acoustic Ecology from the World Soundscape Project to One Square Inch

2:45 — 3
Coffee Break

3:00 — 4:35
Panel 3: Outside of Ourselves
Discussant: William Schaefer

Anna Foran, SAIC
Anne Ryan and the Here and Now

Joshi Radin, SAIC
Earthrise, the Anthropocene and Visuality: From Oversight to Shortsight

4:35 — 4:45
Closing Remarks

7:00
Closing Reception (private)

Co-sponsored by Department of Art & Art History, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Film & Media Studies, Graduate Student Association, Department of History, Department of Languages and Cultures, Susan. B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Digital Humanities Center, the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity, Humanities Department at the Eastman School of Music, the Susan B. Anthony Center, and the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies. Special thanks to the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester.

April 8th, 2017

Evening

8:00
The Visual Studies Workshop Auditorium, 31 Prince Street, Rochester, NY
Admission: $5 suggested donation

Visualizing Critical Posthumanism
Films and performances by Karel Doing

A series of works in search of a new narrative regarding nature and culture, using recycled and hand-processed film stock, organic chemistry, live performance and inventive digital camera extensions.

Program:
Pattern/Chaos
Expanded cinema: 16mm, kinetic and optical objects, shadow-play, color and b/w,18 minutes, 2015

Wilderness Series
DCP (35mm to digital cinemascope), 14 minutes, color, 2016

London Plane
HD video, 10 minutes, color, 2017

Creek Road Bridge
HD video, 3 minutes, color, 2017

Monumental Errors
Expanded cinema: 16mm, voice, bell, b/w, 5 minutes, 2017

Co-Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, Visual Studies Workshop and The College at Brockport, State University of New York.

Co-Chairs:
Mimi Cheng
Peter Murphy

Organizing Committee:
Clara Auclair
Alicia Chester
Lauren DiGiulio
Byron Fong
Eitan Freedenberg
Jiangtao (Harry) Gu
Amanda Ju
Almudena Escobar Lopez
Tristan Menzies
Alisa Prince
Julia Tulke