Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94315500222?pwd=S3lVSnhkZXdQeXdFaXFLNjdiQ25tZz09

Anyone joining an SLSA2021 University of Michigan Zoom Meeting or Webinar using the Zoom desktop app or mobile app will need to use this version of the app or higher: 5.7.0.

Conference Registration and SLSA Membership link: https://slsa.press.jhu.edu/membership/conference

Speaker and Chair Guide: https://litsciarts.org/slsa2021/slsa-2020/speaker-and-chair-guide/

SLSA 2021 Virtual Poster Exhibition: https://stamps.umich.edu/events/slsa-exhibit

Publication Partner The Scholar’s Choice. PDF with book selection for SLSA2021 is available here: http://www.scholarschoice.com/Portals/35/PDFs/SLSA-virtual-book-exhibit-2021.pdf

Publication Partner The University of Minnesota Press virtual booth z.umn.edu/slsa21 with a special 40% discount

Zoom Webinar Link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/91085298525

Title: "The Minor Energy of Anti-Asian Digital Racism: Women of color and the digital labor of repair"

 Abstract: Women of color on social media and gaming platforms contribute unpaid labor to call out misogyny, violations of user agreements, and hateful behavior.  This presentation focuses on their immaterial and knowledge work that contributes directly to the Internet’s usability.  Working with Cathy Hong Park’s formation of “minor feelings” as unique to anti-Asian racism, this presentation will analyze one of our post-COVID moment’s most vibey platforms, TikTok, to discuss how young women of color use the platform to mobilize and elevate minor feelings to viral campaigns.  

Biodata: Lisa Nakamura is the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan.  She is the author of several books on race, gender, and the Internet, most recently Racist Zoombombing (Routledge, 2021, co-authored with Hanah Stiverson and Kyle Lindsey) and Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT, 2020, as Precarity Lab).   She is the Lead P.I. for the Mellon Foundation funded DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network#DISCOnetwork. https://www.disconetwork.org/ is a large 3 year Mellon-funded dollar collaborative higher education grant.

LIVE STREAM LINK:  https://www.twitch.tv/exitpointsmusic

Partner Exhibition with Sensorium: Center for Digital Art & Technology at York University, Re(new)All curated by Ian Garett, Melanie Wilmink and Joel Ong

Zoom Link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/97433174331?pwd=S0hWVytxZVVsajhxd3lFSk9sN3VTUT09

Anyone joining an SLSA2021 University of Michigan Zoom Meeting or Webinar using the Zoom desktop app or mobile app will need to use this version of the app or higher: 5.7.0.

Conference Registration and SLSA Membership link: https://slsa.press.jhu.edu/membership/conference

Speaker and Chair Guide: https://litsciarts.org/slsa2021/slsa-2020/speaker-and-chair-guide/

SLSA 2021 Virtual Poster Exhibition: https://stamps.umich.edu/events/slsa-exhibit

Publication Partner The Scholar’s Choice PDF with book selection for SLSA2021 is available here: http://www.scholarschoice.com/Portals/35/PDFs/SLSA-virtual-book-exhibit-2021.pdf

Publication Partner The University of Minnesota Press virtual booth z.umn.edu/slsa21 with a special 40% discount

Zoom Webinar Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81266378493 

Youtube Streaming Link: https://youtu.be/Q0_-dMrdGD4

Abstract: 

“Theorizing in a Void”: Towards a Theory and Practice of Black Feminist Science and Mathematics insists on complicating the materiality of nothingness –dark matter, dark energy, voids– as metaphor for unconcealing the politics of blackness within Western science and mathematics, bringing together black women scholars across STEM and humanities-based disciplines who enter conversations within the sciences in both traditional and creative ways. The dialogue will range from representation, contributions, and politics of black women in the sciences, personal narratives, to larger analytical questions where, when, and what is blackness in the sciences of the American academy and Western scientific thought? What does it mean, and what should it look like to etch towards a black feminist praxis of science and mathematics?  

Plenary Speakers: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 

Moderator + discussant : Imani C. Mkandawire 

Biographies: 

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. Professor Jackson is the author of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Her research explores the literary and figurative aspects of Western philosophical and scientific discourse and investigates the engagement of African diasporic literature and visual culture with the historical concerns, knowledge claims, and rhetoric of Western science and philosophy. https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/ 

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. Originally from East L.A., Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a graduate of Harvard College, University of California — Santa Cruz, and the University of Waterloo. One of under 100 Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics, she is a theoretical physicist with expertise in particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, with an emphasis on dark matter. In addition, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a theorist of Black feminist science, technology, and society studies, and a monthly columnist for New Scientist. Her research and advocacy for marginalized people in physics and astronomy have won multiple awards, and her first book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, is now available from Bold Type Books. http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/ 

Imani Cooper Mkandawire is a Phd. Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. Imani’s scholarship is at the intersection of theory and practice, focusing on the goal of bringing together anti-racists pedagogy for STEM education, and efforts for anti-racists / inclusive digital technology. Her work traces how relations of power and knowledge are articulated in processes of machine learning, and learning content of STEM curricula including computer science and physics, while generating original pedagogical material for both classrooms and machine learning processes using the artistic and scientific heritage of Africa and its diasporas. https://www.imanicoopermkandawire.com/ 

Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/93970878177?pwd=TEFlREZMUTQ5TUlLN3dHakNRRUVWQT09

Partner Exhibition with Sensorium: Center for Digital Art & Technology at York University, Re(new)All curated by Ian Garett, Melanie Wilmink and Joel Ong

Zoom Link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/92218107469?pwd=bkJDSkc1bEtiUXB0VGlTd1dCS2lpQT09

Anyone joining an SLSA2021 University of Michigan Zoom Meeting or Webinar using the Zoom desktop app or mobile app will need to use this version of the app or higher: 5.7.0.

Conference Registration and SLSA Membership link: https://slsa.press.jhu.edu/membership/conference

Speaker and Chair Guide: https://litsciarts.org/slsa2021/slsa-2020/speaker-and-chair-guide/

SLSA 2021 Virtual Poster Exhibition: https://stamps.umich.edu/events/slsa-exhibit

Publication Partner The Scholar’s Choice. PDF with book selection for SLSA2021 is available here: http://www.scholarschoice.com/Portals/35/PDFs/SLSA-virtual-book-exhibit-2021.pdf

Publication Partner The University of Minnesota Press virtual booth z.umn.edu/slsa21 with a special 40% discount

Zoom Link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/98841503329?pwd=alhEcW44dkpXaXFnNFFiOUJKdm4rUT09

Zoom Link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/98775591580?pwd=c3NMbjkzK0phaWJGeXdaY0dIaEErQT09

This stream consists of two panels: 

Panel 1 (Friday, October 1, 2021): Making Works of Art with Energies 

Panel 2 (Saturday, October 2, 2021): Creating Creative Movements with Energies 

Antipodean Stream 2: Creating Creative Movements with Energies

ABSTRACT: This stream features research about energies and the arts emerging out of Australia and New Zealand. Focusing on non-extractive and non-fuel-based conceptions of energy throughout history, this stream features two panels from established and emerging scholars: the first highlighting various understandings of energy in the creation of specific artworks and the second delving into the relationships between energies—in this expanded sense—and historical movements.

  Our second panel, “Creating Creative Movements with Energies” presents research that begins to highlight the historical role that various conceptions of energy have played in the development, continuation and shaping of creative social movements. It includes original research on historical case studies that reveal the various routes and roots of literal and figurative understandings of energy within these groups and collectives. It also examines how, through their collective and creative activities, these groups simultaneously drew inspiration from and altered the various conceptions of energy with which they worked.

Paper 1: "Intoxicating and Revolutionary Energies in Paris 1926" By Heather Contant, Università Ca’ Foscari

ABSTRACT: Picture the scene: It is spring 1926 at the Paris premiere of the surrealist adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Ballets Russes under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev (who previously brought scandal to Paris during the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring). In this modern interpretation, Romeo and Juliet do not die; instead, they elope. They don pilot’s gear and goggles before flying off-stage in a gestural airplane, bidding adieu to the traditional conclusions of classical tragedy. However, just as the curtains rise on Diaghilev’s Parisian premier, the theatre erupts in whistles, whoops, and hollers as leaflets fall from the balconies! These leaflets are inscribed with the words of Louis Aragon and André Breton, who protest the participation of Max Ernst and Joan Miró in what they consider to be a bourgeois affair that co-opts Surrealism for financial gain. Reports of scandal subsequently appear in the press. One is penned by Aragon’s long-time companion Nancy Cunard, an active participant in the debates surrounding Surrealism’s role in political life and an accomplice in the Diaghilev protest herself. Cunard writes that this incident illustrates how feelings generated by art can be channelled into political action. Walter Benjamin also makes note of the scandal, commenting on the importance of crowds to Surrealist activities and congratulating the French literary movement on their successful interruption. This paper considers the Diaghilev intervention to be an influence on Benjamin’s 1929 essay on Surrealism, especially, in his characterization of the movement’s aims as winning ‘the energies of intoxication for revolution.’ It explores the historical context that gave rise to both Cunard’s report on the Diaghilev incident and Benjamin’s characterization of Surrealism by illuminating the political conversations and activities taking place within the movement during this period. 

Paper 2: "Oscillators to Heal and Energise: From Tonal Therapy to Radionics Radio"by Pia van Gelder Australian National University 

ABSTRACT During the turn of the last century electrotherapy rose in popularity in the medical community and the consumer market, encouraged by findings about electricity and physiology while cities were being electrified. With a lack of medical regulation electrotherapy technologies were vast and varied, many based on the premise that the body, like a battery, had a finite source of energy and needed to be recharged (Armstrong 1998, Thomas 2003). By applying electricity to the body these therapies proposed to energise and vitalise while different frequencies were developed to provide treatment for specific diseases and ailments.

During the first decade of the 20th century the Californian physician and inventor Albert Abrams began to explore the connections between sounding the body and the application of electricity for diagnosis and treatment, what would become known as radionics. In 1922 the young ultra-modernist composer Henry Cowell, in collaboration with occult physician Dr William Dower and musical mystic, Jane Dower, took Abrams’ radionics technologies further by experimenting with musical notes to complement Abrams’ electric frequencies, what they called Tonal Therapy. This paper discusses the curious tandem practice of radionics and music from this early case study informed by Theosophical understandings of the subtle body and cultural perceptions about radio to contemporary explorations of radionics by music practitioners and instrument builders Daniel R. Wilson and Joseph Max.

Zoom Webinar Link:  https://umich.zoom.us/j/92701800715

Title: Our Fathers, Crimes, and the Nature of Energy in the Universe

Abstract: In this keynote, artist-scholars Liz Lerman and Cristóbal Martinez tell and unpack a set of stories in prose and poetry of their personal relationship with physics as a science. They recount and reflect on the impact of science on land and family.  Within a context of worldviews proximate and vexed, they engage in conversations about science in relation to confusion, consequence, and crimes.

Bios: 

Cristóbal Martínez, PhD is Mestizo of the Genizaro, Pueblo, Manito, and Chicano heritages of Northern New Mexico.  He is Chair and Associate Professor of Art and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2003 he co-founded the indigenous-led artist-hacker performance ensemble Radio Healer, and in 2009 he became an artist in the interdisciplinary art collective Postcommodity. In 2018 he co-created the experimental electronic music duet Red Culebra. Martinez, along with his collaborators in Postcommodity, have shown work in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, 2017 Whitney Biennale, 57th ed. Carnegie International, and documenta14.  Achievements by Postcommodity include the historic 2015 ephemeral land artwork Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente at the U.S. Mexico Border near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SO. Winner of the Fine Prize and a 2017-2018 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, Martínez has dedicated his life and career to interdisciplinary collaboration in contemporary art.  Martinez and his collaborator, Kade L. Twist, are currently presenting an exhibition Time Holds All the Answers by Postcommodity at Remai Modern Museum in Saskatoon, Canada. 

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, writer, and speaker, and the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur "Genius Grant" and the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. Her dance theater works have taken place on stages around the world as well as in shipyards, hospitals, schools, congregations and facilities serving veterans. She has been commissioned by the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and Harvard University Law School among others. Since the turn of the century, Liz has been collaborating with scientists in research, performance, and pedagogy. Her current projects include building the Atlas of Creative Tools, an online digital commons, and Wicked Bodies, set to premiere in 2022. Liz is a sought-after teacher of Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance. She is a fellow at both the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at ASU, and a former fellow at the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. Liz is currently an Institute Professor at Arizona State University.

Jane Prophet is an artist and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Work at Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan. She works across media and disciplines, often with scientists, to produce apps, objects and installations, frequently combining traditional and computational media. Prophet’s papers position art in relation to contemporary debates about art, feminist technoscience, artificial life and ubiquitous computing. She is currently working on a range of projects with scientists from nuclear physics, public health and chronic pain research.

ZOOM LINK: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/92428875910?pwd=N2hoem5od2hlUlRsWW92Y2lLSFhSZz09

Partner Exhibition with Sensorium: Center for Digital Art & Technology at York University, Re(new)All curated by Ian Garett, Melanie Wilmink and Joel Ong