Program for Friday, November 8th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH: TALK VIEW

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07:00-08:00 BREAKFAST

08:00-08:15

Truth, Rationality, and Affect in Unreal’s Physically Based Rendering

James Malazita

08:15-08:30

ALT CTRLS: Metagaming the Standard Interface

Patrick LeMieux, Stephanie Boluk

08:30-08:45

Clearing Smoke and Shattering Mirrors: AI as a Substrate for Adaptive Games

Joshua McCoy

08:45-09:00

Experiments in Immersive Games for Black Feminist History Education

Lishan Az

08:00-08:15

Neoliberal Projects: Rationalizing Poverty in Sean Baker's The Florida Project

Dale Pattison

08:15-08:30

The Uses of Terror as Spatiotemporal Performance in Karan Mahajan’s Association of Small Bombs

Kristen Skjonsby

08:30-08:45

Eternal Boy Playground: an artistic critique of cryptocurrency and crypto-colonialism

Liat Berdugo

08:45-09:00

Eternity by the Screen: Antinarratives in the Debt Economy

Amanda Hickok

08:00-08:20

Biopossibility: Nature, Bodies, and the New and Old Materialisms

Angela Willey

08:20-08:40

The Orchid’s Wet Dreams: The Sexual Lives of Plants

Banu Subramaniam

08:40-09:00

Theorizing feminist tinkering with science methodologies

Sara Giordano

08:00-08:15

““Had Nature an Apostate--”: Emily Dickinson, Time, and the “Unruly Edges” of Fungal

Karen Leona Anderson

08:15-08:30

Mycelial Futures

Stephanie Maroney, Mercedes Villalba, Anuj Vaidya

08:30-08:45

Restoring the Future: Natural Childbirth Advocacy and the Maternal Microbiome

Melissa Wills

08:45-09:00

Microbial Myth Making

Mick Lorusso, Joel Ong

08:00-08:15

The Post Capitalism Ball

Martabel Wasserman

08:15-08:30

Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture

Xiaowei Wang

08:30-08:45

Collaborative Remythologizing Under Fascism: The Art of Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington

Sam Cohen

08:45-09:00

Looking for ghosts: Yomogi and the specter of Asian immigration in Steveston, British Columbia

Jane Komori

08:00-08:15

“Was a time…I believed”: Experimental-Knowledge-Death in Einstein’s Gift

Jenni Halpin

08:15-08:30

geologic / weaving / human: or attempts at time traveling

Erika Lynne Hanson

08:30-08:45

Postcolonial Design for Sustainability

Simon Penny

08:00-08:15

Computational Reveries: Hearing Music in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Bradley Spiers

08:15-08:30

Poetics of Machine Desire: An Experimental Inquiry into Voice Interaction Design and Natural Language

Gabrielle Benabdallah

08:30-08:45

Operationalizing Meaning: On (Bad) Poetry and Machine Learning

Théo Lepage-Richer

08:45-09:00

Theory of Games: Games as Experimental Technologies in Artificial Intelligence Research

Evan Donahue

08:00-08:15

Georges Perec, Inventories, and Autism Poetics

Julia Miele Rodas

08:15-08:30

Psychiatric Disability and Asylum Fiction: Sylvia Plath’s Experimental Engagements with Spoiled

Elizabeth Donaldson

08:30-08:45

fine tuning Antin's "tuning": a mathematical model of communication

Sean A. Yeager

08:45-09:00

In the Broken Place

Erica Tom

08:00-09:30 WORKSHOP: Fashionable Ideas: taking it to the streets

08:00-09:30 SLSA Executive Meeting

08:00-09:30 ROUNDTABLE: Climate Change from the Beach to the Biennale: Eco Politics of Leisure and Banality in Sun & Sea (Marina).

09:45-10:05

Repairing Games: Duration and Debility

Kara Stone

10:05-10:25

Speculative Consent: Contracts, Autonomy, and World Building in Robert Yang’s Hurt Me Plenty

Daniel Lipson

10:25-10:45

Shadows, bloodlines, heritage: Queer futurity in the age of evolving games

Kathryn Brewster

09:45-10:00

Loving AI: the rise of ambient sentience

Ania Malinowska

10:00-10:15

The Hidden Game: Intimate Haptic Interactions in Multiplayer Online Video Games

Kyle Machulis

10:15-10:30

Touchless Embrace: The Perpetually Deferred Dream of Hugging from a Distance

David Parisi

10:30-10:45

The Haptic Aesthetics of Control in Video Game Design

Teddy Pozo

09:45-10:00

Playing and Failing in Time: Towards a Radical Slowness

Rainforest Scully-Blaker

10:00-10:15

Seeds of Apocalypse

Evan Wisdom-Dawson

10:15-10:30

On Fractal and Reticular Thinking-Making

Natasha Lushetich

10:30-10:45

Economics of Superfluous Gesture

Matt Pascucci

09:45-10:00

Dennis Summers, “The Human Microbiome as Collage: Symbiosis and Videodrome”

Dennis Summers

10:00-10:15

Lynn Margulis: Of Spirochetes and Speculation

Jennifer Saltmarsh

10:15-10:30

change me

Lily Randall

10:30-10:45

Probing the invisible: Microbes and the Call to Eat Well

Vanya Rachel Gnaniah

09:45-10:00

When Texts Find Us: Transforming Literary Criticism for Contemporary Culture

Jessica Pressman

10:00-10:15

Transdisciplinary Transformations: practice and pedagogy

Tina Lumbis

10:15-10:30

Humanities for Programmers: Transforming the Way We Teach Code

Mark Marino

10:30-10:45

Transforming perspectives on machine learning through critical art practices

Catherine Griffiths

09:45-10:00

Mira: An Autoethnography of the Politics of Gendered Reproductive “Biohacking”

Julie Funk

10:00-10:15

The Left Hand of Imperator Furiosa: Fury Road and the Body Redeemed

Jeff Aziz

10:15-10:30

The Ecology of Abortion in Marianne Apostolide’s Deep Salt Water

Heather Latimer

10:30-10:45

Becoming Visible: Cis Women, Trans Men, and the Social Life of Scars

Emily Waples

09:45-10:05

The (not so) Clumsy Forceps of Logic: Reexamining the Role of Logic in H. G. Wells’s Vision of World

Su Min Kim

10:05-10:25

Square Circles and Round Circles: Constructing Speculative Topological Fiction

Emma Rayward

10:25-10:45

Designing limits: speculations on the small stuff

Stacey Moran

09:45-10:00

Blind Writer at Play: Jorge Luis Borges Experiments

Luis O. Arata

10:00-10:15

Shiva’s Rangoli - an interactive storytelling experience rooted in Indian traditions

Saumya Gupta, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum

10:15-10:30

Digital Doubles: Borges and Chatbots with Anthropomorphic Memory

Isaac Mackey

10:30-10:45

“Thought is the thought of thought”: Joycean Machines, Complex Systems Theory, and Modernist Literature as Empirical

Francis Altomare

09:45-10:00

Opening Remarks: Ignorant Ignoring

Katherine Behar

10:00-10:15

Artificial "Artificial Intelligence": Humans in the Machine of Commercial Content Moderation

Sarah T. Roberts

10:15-10:30

Failure to Enroll: Physiognomy, Nonrecognition, and The Carceral Surround

R. Joshua Scannell

09:45-11:15 WORKSHOP: APRIORI: Sowing Against Proprietary Systems

09:45-11:15 WORKSHOP: One Day One Box: Experimental Adventures in the Archive

09:45-11:15 WORKSHOP: Hands-On Postcolonial Sustainability Design Practice

11:30-11:50

Power to the Player: Literacy, Legibility, and Play as Critique

Rainforest Scully-Blaker

11:50-12:05

“Put the phone down on the pillow, it will be like I’m there”: The Ethics of Empathy as a Form of

Ben Wirth

12:05-12:25

Back to the Screen?: An Infrastructural Approach to Critical Hacking Games

Ryan Leach

12:25-12:45

Throwing Shade: Environmental Civil Disobedience and the Changing Preconditions for Play

Alenda Chang

11:30-11:45

In the Guiding Grips of a Robotic Surgical Assistant

Jason Archer

11:45-12:00

Instruments of Improvisation: Playing Along to FIFA’s World Cup

Carlin Wing

12:00-12:15

Neuroplastic Interfaces: Sensory Substitution Devices and the History of Brain Plasticity

Mark Paterson

12:15-12:30

Laboring in Smell’s Shadow

Christy Spackman

11:30-11:50

“Chris Larson’s Daylight Clinic: Artistic Experiments in Appropriated Architectural Form in Cross-Cultural

Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

11:50-12:10

“Networks of Experimentalism: Two Chicago-Based Creative Music Communities— The AACM & Catalytic

Damon Stanek

12:10-12:30

ThisTheoryDoesNotExist: Historicizing and Understanding the Hyper-Real in Photographic Data

Kris Belden-Adams

11:30-11:45

On Experimental Engagements, Collaboration, and Love

Alexander Strecker

11:45-12:00

Toward An Energy Theory of Value

Quran Karriem

12:00-12:15

Seeing Like a Computer: From Probability to Pattern

Rebecca Uliasz

12:15-12:30

Noise Performance as Knowledge Production: A Speculative Database Aesthetics of ImageNet

Rebecca Uliasz, Quran Karriem

11:30-11:50

The Spectacular Anthropocene: Virtuality, Climate Change, and Ecological Détournement

Andrew Kalaidjian

11:50-12:10

Lyric Engagement with the Material World: Jorie Graham's Material-discursive Reality

Gi Taek Ryoo

12:10-12:30

"Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians" and the Settler-Colonial Logic of Resource Management

Anneke Schwob

11:30-11:50

"Make Your Body the Sexiest Outfit You’ll Ever Own:" Connected Fitness and Bodily Optimization

Mikki Kressbach

11:50-12:10

An Athletic Laboratory: testosterone, data extraction, and consent in international track and field

Valerie Moyer

12:10-12:30

The Hybridization of Mediated Exercise in the Digital Age

Katherine Contess

11:30-11:45

What Is It Like to Be a Flower or a Plague?

Zoe Hughes

11:45-12:00

Evolving from Cannibals to Vegetarians: A Vegetarian Appropriation of Evolutionary Theory in Nineteenth-Century British

Haejoo Kim

12:00-12:15

Speculative Botany: Taxonomy as Metaphysics

Antoinette Lafarge

12:15-12:30

Of Puzzle Planets and Water Worlds: Speculative Planetology, Science, and Fiction

Katherine Buse

11:30-11:45

Staging a Writing Experiment: From Individual Pathos to Collective Topos

Selvin Yaltır, Emre Koyuncuoğlu

11:45-12:00

‘Publish or perish!’: the ironic rallying cry of Jean-François Lyotard

Kiff Bamford

11:30-11:45

The Thoughts

Dominic Pettman

11:45-12:00

The Thoughts (film)

Merritt Symes

12:00-12:15

Beyond Human Knowledge: Explainability and the Autonomy of Computational Automation

M. Beatrice Fazi

12:15-12:30

Decide & Multiply: On the Edges of Artificial Imagination

Gloria Kim

11:30-13:00 ROUNDTABLE: CRISPR Fluxus Part One: A Flux Bestiary

11:30-11:45

Experiencing Failure in “Cuphead”

Craig Anderson

11:45-12:00

Voice Games for Children with Disabilities

Yao Du

12:00-12:15

Peer-to-Peer Play in “Melee”

Matt Knutson

12:15-12:30

Developing Support for Play in Higher Education

Reginald Gardner

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

13:30-14:00 RECEPTION: At The Margins

14:00-14:20

No Fun Karaoke

Jeffrey Bryan

14:20-14:40

Cheats, Spoil-Sports, and Whistle-blowers: High-Frequency Traders as Gamers

Derek Curry

14:40-15:00

On Gender and the Acousmatic Voice in Videogames

Liam Mitchell

14:00-14:15

On Pikas and Purity

Maya Livio

14:15-14:30

The Role of Ideology in the Formation of the Code Concept

Evan Buswell

14:30-14:45

The Political Ecology of James and Grace Lee Boggs

Brian Bartell

14:00-14:15

Artworks in the Age of Afterlight: Collaborations Beyond the Sixth Extinction

Kyle Welker

14:15-14:30

Cross-Border Interludes: experimental practices in socially-engaged environmental art

Maria Michails

14:30-14:45

Experiments in Eco-poiesis: The Long-term Praxis of herman de vries

Wood Roberdeau

14:45-15:00

Forgetting and Remembering the Materiality of the Archives

Dani Stuchel

14:00-14:20

'Putting the Microbiome to Work for You’: Labor, Platform Biocapitalism, and Human Gut Microbiota

Mark Olson

14:20-14:40

Fecal Froths and Sourdough Starters: A Non-phenomenology of Alimentation

David Rambo

14:40-15:00

Response: The Human Body as Sensing and as Sensed

Mark B N Hansen

14:00-14:15

The Tension of the “Unremembered”: Neuroscience and Wordsworth

Madeleine Roepe

14:15-14:30

Moving Past the Narrative Self: Metaphors of Memory in Beckett and Neuroscience

Aili Pettersson Peeker

14:30-14:45

Staging encounters in the cognitive neuroscience lab: Practical experimentation and the conditions for

Yelena Gluzman

14:45-15:00

Gender Beyond “Social” versus “Biological:” the Autonomic Nervous System and Embodiments of

Colin Tucker

14:00-14:20

An Insurgent Bioethics

Cristina Visperas

14:20-14:40

The Machine in the Garden was Black: Slavery and Leo Marx

Taylor Evans

14:40-15:00

Experimental Subjects

Kim Adams

14:00-14:12

GANymedes: Art with AI

Eunsu Kang

14:12-14:24

Two Women

Ha Na Lee

14:24-14:36

Machines for Living: Le Corbusier, Smart Home Utopianism, and the Myth of Utility

Robert Twomey

14:36-14:48

Mother: visualization of sound and meaning

Inmi Lee

14:48-15:00

Wind and the Myth of Mobility

Joel Ong

14:00-14:15

The Dehumanizing Limits of Drone Vision.”

Jennifer Rhee

14:15-14:30

Strategic DisAssemblages

Irina Aristarkhova

14:30-14:45

Machine Learning in Dataveillance Practices

Jennifer Gradecki, Derek Curry

14:45-15:00

Smile for the Computer: AI and Everyday Photography

Brooke Belisle

14:00-15:30 ROUNDTABLE: At The Margins

14:00-15:30 WORKSHOP: Speculative Transduction: Iterating Our Way Through Climate Catastrophe

14:00-15:30 ROUNDTABLE: CRISPR Fluxus Part Two: The Spliced Metatexts of Fluxus

15:45-16:00

I Signify the Body Electric: Making Masculinity Through Media Technology

Jason Lajoie

16:00-16:15

Silkworms, Spindles, and the Strange Stranger

Helen J Burgess

16:15-16:30

Now: A Kit for Digital Mindfulness

Roger Whitson

16:30-16:45

Basket Weaving as Media Theory

Marcel O'Gorman

15:45-16:00

Playing with Digital Technologies and Analog Consent

Josef Nguyen

16:00-16:15

From kinetic to moral legibility: the case of melodramatic videogames

Christopher Goetz

16:15-16:30

Puppy Play: Nintendogs and the Present Absence of Queer Sex in Video Games

Bonnie Ruberg

16:30-16:45

Unlearning the Keyboard, Relearning the Body: Hardware Intimacies in Sean Wejebe’s The Longest

Whitney Pow

15:45-16:00

The Folk Science of Takis

Paige Hirschey

16:00-16:15

ShadowCast: Unpacking the Pleasures of Participatory Virtual Reality Theater

Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Nazely Hartoonian, Jeffrey Bryan

16:15-16:30

Art-based immersive experiential narratives and biometrics as foundation to build an inclusive

Enrica Costello

16:30-16:45

“Together alone, connected next to yet apart as we are near others…; Where Spatial computing will alter the bodies experience of reality by its reliance on it through our somatic

Jonathon Paden

15:45-16:00

The Politics of Spatial Dynamics in the Work of Pinter and Churchill

Guy Zimmerman

16:00-16:15

Shifting Perspectives from the Human to the Non-Human in Patricio Guzmán's "The Pearl Button"

Matthew Harrison Tedford

16:15-16:30

Picasso under Occupation: Reification, Representation, and Ritualization in a Palestinian Museum

Sherena Razek

16:30-16:45

Biopolitical Critique Meets Growling Woman: Two Tsushima Yūkos, One Ecopolitics

Margherita Long

15:45-16:00

The Old Child: Lyn Hejinian’s The Unfollowing, Aging and the Epigenetic Development of Giftedness

Joao Guimaraes

16:00-16:15

Relics, Systems Theory, and Religion

Rachel Anderson

16:15-16:30

A Hermeneutic Autophenomenological Interpretation of Psychedelic Nonduality

Isabel Tweedie

15:45-16:00

The Tenacity of Warp and Weft: Material Memory of the Selvedge/Self-Edge

Jennifer Clary-Lemon

16:00-16:15

Crip Making: Mediating Embodied Differences through Collaborative Maker Experiments

Stephen Fernandez

16:15-16:30

Breaking the Binary: The Media Poetics of Void Interface

Jamal Russell

15:45-16:00

Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs

Laura Hyunjhee Kim

16:00-16:15

Which Came First? Avian Figures, Experimental Etymologies, and the Fluidity of "Jizz”

Melissa Yang

16:15-16:30

Old man river: Rhizome as emancipatory model for the age of AI and Spatial Computing

Will Hallett

16:30-16:45

Makeup as Temporal Experimentation on Social Media

Dalia Barghouty

15:45-17:15 ROUNDTABLE: Speculative Design in Climactic Times

15:45-17:15 WORKSHOP: Love in the Dialectic of Vanity

15:45-17:15 ROUNDTABLE: Gallery talk in American Monument

17:30-19:00 PLENARY EVENT: In Conversation with lauren woods

20:00-21:30 SPECIAL EVENT: Music Performance by Teeth & Metals

20:00-21:15 SPECIAL EVENT: Reading Frankenstein