THE STREET
Graduate Student Conference
PhD Program in Visual Studies
University of California, Irvine
February 29 - March 1, 2008

Friday, February 29, 2008

10:00 -10:30
Registration, HIB 135

10:45 - 11:00
Welcome Remarks, HIB 135

11:00 - 12:30
(Re)placing Paris: Reconstruction, Revolution, and le reste, HIB 135

Camille S. Mathieu, University of California, Berkeley
„Passage, from Above and Below: The Street in Early French Impressionist
Painting“

Kate Morris, University of Glasgow
„Perec’s Alternative Topography: Figuring Permanence and the Ephemeral in
Lieux“

Respondent: Professor Catherine Liu, University of California, Irvine

12:30 - 2:00
Lunch

2:00 - 3:30
Urban Interventions and Tactile Aesthetics, HIB 135

Eva Friedberg, University of California, Irvine
„‘Experiments in Environment’: Urban Rituals and the Street as Public Stage“

Claudia Pederson, Cornell University
„Games, Play, and the Spectacle: Situating Agency in Alternative Gaming“

John Tyson, Tufts University
„Street Art and the Problematization of Public Space“

Respondent: Professor Jonathan Hall, University of California, Irvine

4:00 - 5:30
Opening Keynote, HIB 135
Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in
the Department of Government at Cornell University

7:00-9:00
Screening, HIB 100
Green Love (n.d.), Lincoln Tobier and Nils Norman, 12 min.
River Made (2004), Charles Long and Kristina Faragher, 3:50 min.
Rebels of the Dance (2004), Fikret Atay, 11 min
Tinica (2004), Fikret Atay, 7 min
Paradox of Praxis I, (1997) Francis Alys, 15 min.
Style Wars (1983), Dir. Tony Silver, 69 min.

Saturday, March 1, 2008
11:00 - 12:30
Sites and Citations: The Photographic City, HIB 135

Inés Rae, University of Leeds
„Kurl up n Dye; the vernacular in British high street culture“

Thomas O’Leary, University of Southern California
„Image Hunters: Moriyama Daido and Araki Nobuyoshi’s Visions of Tokyo“

Franz Prichard, University of California, Los Angeles
„Between Inundation and Insurgency: Nakahira Takuma’s Urban Photography“

Respondent: Professor Sally Stein, University of California, Irvine

12:30 - 2:00
Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30
Visualizing the Street, HIB 135

Catherine McMahon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
„Panoramic Urbanity“

Lara Schweller, University of California, Irvine
„TransiTV: Mediating the Street“

Krista Dahl, Boston University
„Balthus: A Surrealist’s Fabrication of Parisian Streets“

Respondent: Professor Kristen Hatch, University of California, Irvine
4:00 - 5:30

Closing Keynote, HIB 135
Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine

Website:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/visualstudies/street/street_schedule.html