SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS, EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME ZONE (ANN ARBOR/DETROIT)
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, September 30th Friday, October 1st Saturday, October 2nd

Thursday, September 30th

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08:30-08:45 Session 1: Welcoming Opening Remarks by SLSA21 Team: Eastern Daylight Time - Detroit / Toronto, GMT-4

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09:00-10:30 Session 2A
Chair:
Shamim Hunt (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
09:00
Shamim Hunt (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
Human Beings as Energy in The Matrix (abstract)
09:15
Garth Sabo (Michigan State University Center of Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, United States)
Between Living and Not Living: Art, Automata, and the Energies of Waste (abstract)
09:30
Henry Ivry (University of Toronto, Canada)
Dubbed Ecologies: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Black Energy (abstract)
09:45
Maria Dikcis (University of Chicago, United States)
Border Crossers at the End of the World: Micha Cárdenas’ Redshift & Portalmetal and the Slow Scale of Climate Exhaustion (abstract)
10:00
Desiree Foerster (University of Chicago, United States)
Attuning to processes of transmutation in immersive media-environments. (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2B
Chair:
Jacob Hagelberg (University of California, Davis, United States)
09:00
Catherine Sarah Young (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
An Olfactory Wheel for the Critical Zone (abstract)
09:15
Jacob Hagelberg (University of California, Davis, United States)
Dalia Barghouty (University of California, Davis, United States)
To the Moon? No, To the Stars! Bitcoin, Stonks, & Astrology, a Historically Materialist Match (abstract)
09:30
Laboni Bhattacharya (University of Southern California, United States)
Energetic Movement: The Affective Vitality of Yoga Nationalism (abstract)
09:45
Jiemin Tina Wei (Harvard University, United States)
The Committee on Industrial Fatigue: The U.S. Government’s Attempted Partnership to Investigate Worker Fatigue during WWI (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2C: Pre-Organized Panel: Enervated: Sleep at the Edge of the Social
Chair:
Alanna Thain (McGill University, Canada)
09:00
Elizaveta Solomonova (McGill University, Canada)
Aleksandra Kaminska (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Dayna McLeod (McGill University, Canada)
Alanna Thain (McGill University, Canada)
Pre-Organized Panel: Enervated: Sleep at the Edge of the Social (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2D: Pre-Organized Panel: Resonating Subjects: Time, Attention, Duration
Chair:
Martha Henzy (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States)
09:00
Martha Henzy (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States)
Elana Maloul (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States)
Caleb Tardio (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Resonating Subjects: Time, Attention, Duration (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2E: Pre-Organized Panel: Energy, Materiality, and Space in Postwar and Contemporary Art
Chair:
Roja Najafi (CGCC / Chandler-Gilbert Community College, United States)
09:00
Stephanie Chadwick (Assistant Professor, Art History, Lamar University, United States)
Roja Najafi (CGCC / Chandler-Gilbert Community College, United States)
Taylor Bradley (The University of Texas at Austin, United States)
Sara Madandar (Loyola University of New Orleans, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Energy, Materiality, and Space in Postwar and Contemporary Art (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2F: Pre-Organized Panel: Sister Labs: FEMeeting syNERGIES
Chair:
Dalila Honorato (Ionian University, Greece)
09:00
Dalila Honorato (Ionian University, Greece)
Marta de Menezes (Ectopia Lab, Portugal)
Kathy High (NATURE Lab, United States)
Branda Miller (The Sanctuary for Independent Media, United States)
Jennifer Willet (INCUBATOR Art Lab Studio, Canada)
Pre-Organized Panel: Sister Labs: FEMeeting syNERGIES (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2G: Pre-Organized Panel: Modernism and Other Exhaustions
Chair:
Torin McLachlan (University of British Columbia, Canada)
09:00
Torin McLachlan (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Amy Tang (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)
Shalini Sengupta (University of Sussex, UK)
Matthew Johnston (Columbia University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Modernism and Other Exhaustions (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 2H: Pre-Organized Panel: Violent Flows
Chair:
Sasha Shestakova (currently obtaining Phd at Mediastudies dep. at Ruhr University Bochum, Russia)
09:00
Nastya Dmitrievskaya (Currently obtaining MA Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Russia)
Daria Getmanova (currently obtaining MA Gender Studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)
Sasha Shestakova (currently obtaining Phd at Mediastudies dep. at Ruhr University Bochum, Russia)
Mark Cinkevich (Independent Researcher, Poland)
Pre-Organized Panel: Violent Flows (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3A
Chair:
Pooja Shah (University of Michigan-Flint, United States)
11:00
Pooja Shah (University of Michigan-Flint, United States)
Dissected narratives: Understanding colonial oppression through Rolling Blackouts (abstract)
11:15
Alba Tomasula Y Garcia (University of California Berkeley, United States)
“Not a Gallon You Burn, But At Least One Drop of Man’s Blood Was Spilled for It”: Whale Blubber, Fossil Fuels, And the Living Costs of Energy’s Creation (abstract)
11:30
Tegan Smith (artist, Canada)
Standardization, power, and resistance (abstract)
11:45
Steven Nathaniel (Indiana University-Bloomington, United States)
“Havana Syndrome and the Poetics of Auditory Hallucination” (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3B
Chair:
Kari Weil (Wesleyan University, United States)
11:00
Timothy Miller (Florida Atlantic University, United States)
Fantastical Plants and Fantastical Energies: Rewilding the Imagination in Richard Powers’s The Overstory (abstract)
11:15
Kari Weil (Wesleyan University, United States)
Animal Affects: The Energy of Animal Magnetism (abstract)
11:30
Mirja Lobnik (Agnes Scott College, United States)
From Soundless Lumber to a Forest’s Subsonic Hum: Vibratory Energy in David George Haskell’s The Songs of Trees (abstract)
11:45
Nathaniel Otjen (University of Oregon, United States)
Running Out of Energy: Avian Rehabilitation, Disability, and Care (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3C
Chair:
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (University of Notre Dame, United States)
11:00
Sean Matharoo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
In the Ruins of Crisis: Translating Energy Aesthetics into a New Structuralism (abstract)
11:15
Bart Welling (University of North Florida, United States)
From the Environmental and Energy Humanities to the Emergency Humanities (abstract)
11:30
Sayan Bhattacharyya (Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore)
Deep versus human time as energy flow/exchange in ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers (abstract)
11:45
Catherine Belling (Northwestern University, United States)
Sublimation, Sublation, and the Matter of Horror (abstract)
12:00
Colin Morgan (n/a, United States)
Ontologies of Environmental Collapse (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3D
Chair:
Maury Bruhn (Vanderbilt University, United States)
11:00
Noah Toyonaga (Harvard University, United States)
Geometric Terror: Trypophobia, Entropy, and Paranoia of Space (abstract)
11:15
Anastasia Klimchynskaya (University of Chicago, United States)
Energy and Entropy in the Form of Science Fiction (abstract)
11:30
Dong Yang (University of Georgia, United States)
Hand-made Energy: Émile Cohl and the Transmission of Haptic Affects (abstract)
11:45
Maury Bruhn (Vanderbilt University, United States)
Images of Energy and the Energy of the Image in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3E: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Energy and Individuation" 1: Scaling Environmental Information
Chair:
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
11:00
Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago, United States)
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Mark B.N. Hansen (Duke University, United States)
Weihong Bao (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Energy and Individuation" 1: Scaling Environmental Information (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3F: Roundtable: Disciplinary Synergies: Science in Society and the Contemporary Science Novel
Chair:
Sina Farzin (Dept of Social Sciences & Public Affairs, UniBw Muenchen, Germany)
11:00
Sina Farzin (Dept of Social Sciences & Public Affairs, UniBw Muenchen, Germany)
Carol Colatrella (School of Literature, Media & Communication / Georgia Tech, United States)
Natalie Roxburgh (Institute of English and American Studies / University of Hamburg, Germany)
Uwe Schimank (Research Centre on Inequality & Social Policy / Univ. of Bremen, Germany)
Anna Auguscik (Institute for English & American Studies, Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany)
Luz Maria Hernández Nieto (Facultad del Hábitat, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Susan M Gaines (Fiction Meets Science, Germany)
Roundtable: Disciplinary Synergies: Science in Society and the Contemporary Science Novel (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sina Farzin
11:00-12:30 Session 3G: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Another Worldly Energies" 1: More-than-human magics
Chair:
Phillip Thurtle (University of Washington, United States)
11:00
Rebecca Cummins (University of Washington, United States)
Stephanie Rothenberg (University at Buffalo SUNY, United States)
Nat Mengist (University of Washington, United States)
Ioan Butiu (Independant, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Another Worldly Energies" 1: More-than-human magics (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 3H: Arts Lounge: The Being and Doing
Chair:
Alissa Walls (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, United States)
11:00
Alissa Walls (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, United States)
Jonathan Vandyke (Independent Artist, United States)
Natalie Conway (Independent Artist, United States)
Arts Lounge: The Being and Doing (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4A
Chair:
Nat Mengist (University of Washington, United States)
13:00
Nat Mengist (University of Washington, United States)
Man’s wish for a womb: Alchemical reproductive politics in western visions of artificial life (abstract)
13:15
Paulina Lanz (USC Annenberg School of Communication, United States)
The sensorial haunting: the re-materialization of memory through intangible objects (abstract)
13:30
Joel Ong (York University, Canada)
Proximal Spaces and emerging Bio-digital Literacies/Vocabularies (abstract)
13:45
Stacey Moran (Arizona State University, United States)
Bodies by Design: Re-energizing Material Feminisms (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4B: Workshop: Habitability and the Telematic Embrace
Chairs:
Boris Oicherman (Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, United States)
Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M University, United States)
13:00
Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M University, United States)
Boris Oicherman (Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, United States)
Peng Wu (Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, United States)
Workshop: Habitability and the Telematic Embrace (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4C
Chair:
Rebecca Kain (The University of Waterloo, Canada)
13:00
Melanie Swan (UCL, United States)
The Quantum Aesthetic Imaginary (abstract)
13:15
Justin Keever (University of California Irvine, United States)
The Rise of the Transparent Box: The Inward Shift of Opacity in Digital Machines (abstract)
13:30
William Lockett (MIT, United States)
“Here Would Be the Great Educational System on What the Chemistry Exchanges Really Are”: Bucky Fuller on Video Systems Before Personal Computing (abstract)
13:45
Rebecca Kain (The University of Waterloo, Canada)
The Physics of Death and The Transformative Nature of Grief: A Critical Design (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4D
Chair:
Paula Leverage (Purdue University, United States)
13:00
Paula Leverage (Purdue University, United States)
Water Entropy and Environmentalism in the Films of Jean Painlevé (abstract)
13:15
Yijun Sun (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
Entropy/Negentropy: Machine Metaphors in Early 20th Century Architecture Knowledge Production (abstract)
13:30
Grace Franklin (University of Southern California, United States)
Infrastructural Energetics in Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight (1938) and Beyond (abstract)
13:45
Njelle Hamilton (University of Virginia, United States)
‘Work, Work, Time-Occupying Work’: Plantation Thermodynamics in Erna Brodber’s The Rainmaker’s Mistake (abstract)
14:00
Katrina Maggiulli (University of Oregon, United States)
Speculative Species Labor: Imagining the Workhorses for a Bioremediated Future in Shawn Sheehy’s Beyond the Sixth Extinction (2018) (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4E: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 2: Mathematical, Mystical, and Metaphysical Mediations: Attuning to Other's Worlds and the Other Worldly
Chair:
Xin Wei Sha (Arizona State University, United States)
13:00
Sean Yeager (The Ohio State University, United States)
Sam Stoeltje (Rice University, United States)
Muindi Fanuel Muindi (University of Washington, United States)
Xin Wei Sha (Arizona State University, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 2: Mathematical, Mystical, and Metaphysical Mediations: Attuning to Other's Worlds and the Other Worldly (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4F
Chair:
Christian Whitworth (Stanford University, United States)
13:00
Susan Watkins (Leeds Beckett, UK, UK)
Ruth Robbins (Leeds Beckett,UK, UK)
‘The Performativity of Matter: the Pregnancy Scan in Contemporary Women’s Reproductive Dystopias’ (abstract)
13:15
Joshua Dittrich (University of Toronto, Canada)
Sleep Tracks: Sound, Listening and the Sonic (Re)mediation of Sleep (abstract)
13:30
Brian House (Lewis & Clark College, United States)
Macrophones: Listening to the Climate Crisis via Infrasound (abstract)
13:45
Mickey Vallee (Athabasca University, Canada)
Energy Worlding: Using Soundscape Compositions as Post-Qualitative Research Prompts (abstract)
14:00
Christian Whitworth (Stanford University, United States)
Screening Somniloquy: Gil Wolman’s L’Anticoncept and the Exhaustion of Cinema’s Sleep Speech (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4G: Pre-Organized Panel: Cells, Cities, Turbines: On Metabolism
Chairs:
Liliane Campos (University Sorbonne Nouvelle / Institut Universitaire de France, France)
Pierre-Louis Patoine (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
13:00
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Liliane Campos (University Sorbonne Nouvelle / Institut Universitaire de France, France)
Jonathan Hope (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Pierre-Louis Patoine (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
Pre-Organized Panel: Cells, Cities, Turbines: On Metabolism (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 4H: Pre-Organized Panel: Ghosts, Cyborgs, Robots: Posthuman Subjectivities in Latin American Literature
Chair:
Oscar A. Pérez (Skidmore College, United States)
13:00
Oscar A. Pérez (Skidmore College, United States)
Ana Ugarte (College of the Holy Cross, United States)
Silvina Yi (Union College, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Ghosts, Cyborgs, Robots: Posthuman Subjectivities in Latin American Literature (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 5A: Pre-Organized Panel: Conducting Speculative Energy in a Short Story, an 18th Century Utopian Novel, and a Ghost Town in Northern Ontario
Chair:
Thomas Provost (The University of Memphis, United States)
15:00
Thomas Provost (The University of Memphis, United States)
Tess Given (Indiana University, United States)
Milo Hicks (Indiana University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Conducting Speculative Energy in a Short Story, an 18th Century Utopian Novel, and a Ghost Town in Northern Ontario (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 5B: Pre-Organized Panel: Theorizing Care and the Digital
Chair:
Pelle Tracey (University of Michigan, United States)
15:00
Pelle Tracey (University of Michigan, United States)
Alexandria Rayburn (University of Michigan, United States)
Chloe Perry (University of Michigan, United States)
Linda Huber (University of Michigan, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Theorizing Care and the Digital (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 5C: Pre-Organized Panel: Transformative Landscapes: Entangling Different Scales of Energy in Art
Chair:
Susannneh Bieber (Texas A&M University, United States)
15:00
James W. McManus (California State University Chico, United States)
Susannneh Bieber (Texas A&M University, United States)
Anne Collins Goodyear (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, United States)
Dennis Summers (Strategic Technologies for Art, Globe and Environment, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Transformative Landscapes: Entangling Different Scales of Energy in Art (abstract)
PRESENTER: James W. McManus
15:00-16:30 Session 5D
Chair:
Gabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada)
15:00
Gabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada)
The Perceived Freedom of the Visual Analogue Scale (abstract)
15:15
Andrea Gogova (FMC TBU Zlin, multimedia and design, Czech rep., Phd candidate, Slovakia)
Transient pattern a model of digital text layout (abstract)
15:30
Grant Palmer (University of California-Riverside, United States)
Doom, Free Software, and the Carnivalesque of Digital Recursive Publics (abstract)
15:45
James Malazita (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States)
Seeing like a Soldier: The Co-production of the Unreal Engine, Game Design, and America's Army (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 5E
Chair:
Chandler McWilliams (UCLA Design Media Arts, United States)
15:00
Chandler McWilliams (UCLA Design Media Arts, United States)
Artwashing the Apocalypse: NFTs and the Haecceity of Digital Artifacts (abstract)
15:15
Kristen Tapson (Duke University, United States)
A Poetics of Minecraft: What's Mine is Mined (abstract)
15:30
Samuel Pizelo (University of California Davis, United States)
Game Form and the Prehistory of Cybercultures (abstract)
15:45
Albertine Thunier (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Memetic flows : toward a playful understanding of circulating memes (abstract)
16:00
Gavin Smith (Australian National University, Australia)
Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia)
Chris O'Neill (Monash University, Australia)
Neil Selwyn (Monash University, Australia)
Xin Gu (Monash University, Australia)
When your Face is your ID: The ambiguous energetics of facial recognition technologies (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 5F: Arts Lounge: Storytellers on Energy
Chair:
Brandi Reissenweber (Illinois Wesleyan University, United States)
15:00
Brandi Reissenweber (Illinois Wesleyan University, United States)
Karen Leona Anderson (St. Mary's College of Maryland, United States)
Marjorie Luesebrink (n/a, United States)
Noah Travis Phillips (University of Denver., United States)
Stephanie Rothenberg (University at Buffalo, United States)
Mandy-Suzanne Wong (n/a, United States)
Arts Lounge: Storytellers on Energy (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 6: Opening Keynote: Lisa Nakamura, chaired by Osman Khan. "The Minor Energy of Anti-Asian Digital Racism: Women of color and the digital labor of repair"

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.

Chair:
Osman Khan (University of Michigan, United States)
Friday, October 1st

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08:30-08:45 Session 8: Welcoming Remarks and Updates by SLSA2021 Team: Eastern Daylight Time - Detroit / Toronto, GMT-4

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

09:00-10:30 Session 9A: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Energy and Individuation" 2: Media, Magic, and Aesthet
Chair:
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
09:00
Jordan Sjol (Duke University, United States)
Kendra Lee Sanders (University of Chicago, United States)
Adam Nocek (Arizona State University, United States)
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Energy and Individuation" 2: Media, Magic, and Aesthetics (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 9B: Roundtable: Game Arts Curator Kit
Chairs:
Chaz Evans (University of South Carolina, United States)
Tiffany Funk (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
09:00
Tiffany Funk (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
Chaz Evans (University of South Carolina, United States)
Rene Cepeda (Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico, Mexico)
Luján Oulton (Universidad ORT Uruguay; Game Arts International Network, Uruguay)
Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan (Game Arts International Network, United States)
Jim Munroe (Game Arts International Network, Canada)
Brice Puls (Bit Bash, Video Game Art Gallery, United States)
Roundtable: Game Arts Curator Kit (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 9C: SloMoCo Art Lounge no. 1 // Media Arts' Loss(y) and Found Futures
Chair:
Jessica Rajko (SloMoCo, United States)
09:00
Stalgia Grigg (independent, United States)
Renee Carmichael (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
Kate Stevenson (DotDot, United States)
Alys Longley (DOTDOT, United States)
Daniel Lichtman (Purchase College, SUNY, United States)
Jessica Rajko (Wayne State University, United States)
Garrett Johnson (Arizona State University, United States)
SloMoCo Art Lounge no. 1 // Media Arts' Loss(y) and Found Futures (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 9D
Chair:
James Barilla (University of South Carolina, United States)
09:00
Nicola Giansiracusa (Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras - PhD-COMP, Portugal)
Energy and Eros: Love and Narcissism in Carlo Emilio Gadda and Virginia Woolf (abstract)
09:15
Rupeng Chen (university of edinburgh, UK)
“I have seen life in blocks, substantial, huge”: Virginia Woolf, Energyscape and Gasometer as a Literary Form (abstract)
09:30
Matthew Tedford (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States)
Embodied Virtual Reality: Responsibility, Relationality, and Continuity in Nature (abstract)
09:45
James Barilla (University of South Carolina, United States)
River Electric (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 9E: Pre-Organized Panel: Sites of Contestation: An Exploration of Energy Struggles in Canada
Chair:
Laurence Butet-Roch (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada)
09:00
Laurence Butet-Roch (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada)
Jacob MacLean (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada)
Alexandra Watt Simpson (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada)
Isaac Thornley (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada)
Pre-Organized Panel: Sites of Contestation: An Exploration of Energy Struggles in Canada (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 9F
Chair:
Andrew Moon (The New School for Social Research, United States)
09:00
Andrew Moon (The New School for Social Research, United States)
Remaking Low-Frequency Science at a Laboratory and Field Station in Singapore (abstract)
09:15
Joel Duncan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Toward a Petropoetics (with William Carlos Williams and Eileen Myles) (abstract)
09:30
Ian Kennedy (University of Michigan, United States)
Negentropic Aesthetics: On Nam June Paik's Participation TV (abstract)
09:45
Adam Gabriele (Arizona State University, United States)
Guerilla Fiction: Corporate Scenarios as Artistic Activism (abstract)
10:00
Kim Lacey (Saginaw Valley State University, United States)
Artificial Creativity: Computers Acting Creatively (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 9G: Pre-Organized Panel: Literary Histories of AI and the Human - The Energetics of Cultural Interaction
Chair:
Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge, UK)
09:00
Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge, UK)
Jenny Moran (University of Cambridge, Ireland)
Louisa Shen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Nathaniel Zetter (University of Cambridge, UK)
Pre-Organized Panel: Literary Histories of AI and the Human - The Energetics of Cultural Interaction (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10A: Pre-Organized Panel: Hinterland Aesthetics
Chair:
John Winn (Duke University, United States)
11:00
Benjamin Crais (Duke University, United States)
John Winn (Duke University, United States)
Aaron Dowdy (Duke University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Hinterland Aesthetics (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10B: Arts Lounge: Impulsive Maneuvers
Chairs:
Ed Osborn (Brown University, United States)
Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute, United States)
11:00
Ed Osborn (Brown University, United States)
Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute, United States)
Devavani Chatterjea (Macalester College, United States)
Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M University, United States)
Lexygius Sanchez Calip (Independent, United States)
Giuliana Funkhauser (Independent, United States)
Laura Hyunjhee Kim (University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
Patricia Olynyk (Washington University of St. Louis, United States)
Gail Wight (Stanford University, United States)
Arts Lounge: Impulsive Maneuvers (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10C
Chair:
Jonathan Basile (Emory University, United States)
11:00
Jussi Parikka (FAMU / Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czechia)
Abelardo Gil-Fournier (FAMU at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czechia)
Green Grass Computation (abstract)
11:15
Bethany Berard (Carleton University, Canada)
Conversions of Light: Energy as Information (abstract)
11:30
Jonathan Basile (Emory University, United States)
Cybernetics, Information Theory, and Irony (abstract)
11:45
Dr. Victoria Emily Sharples (University of Derby, UK)
The (in)separability of matter: on prāṇa, energy and permeation. (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10D: SloMoCo Art Lounge no. 3 // Transduction and Movement Computing Energetics
Chair:
Lisa Jamhoury (SloMoCo, United States)
11:00
Lisa Jamhoury (independent, United States)
Garrett Johnson (Arizona State University, United States)
Kris Paulsen (Ohio State University, United States)
Brent Brimhall (independent, United States)
Courtney Brown (Southern Methodist University, United States)
Ru Ferguson (Southern Methodist University, United States)
Luke Fischbeck (independent, United States)
Nina Sarnelle (independent, United States)
Selwa Sweidan (University of Southern California, United States)
SloMoCo Art Lounge no. 3 // Transduction and Movement Computing Energetics (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10E
Chair:
Sookyung Cho (UCLA - Digital Humanities, United States)
11:00
Sookyung Cho (UCLA - Digital Humanities, United States)
Kant on Kindchenschema: an imaginary discussion between Lorenz and von Uexkull on aesthetical common sense and caring behavior. (abstract)
11:15
Mark Pizzato (UNC-Charlotte, United States)
Religious Energies in Churches and Temples as Brain Theatres (abstract)
11:30
Brittany Carlson (University of California, Riverside, United States)
Dismantling the Mathematical Objectivity Myth: A Study in Ephemera (abstract)
11:45
Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja (Independent scholar, Finland)
A Semiotic Border of Positive-Negative Energies in Werther’s Nature and Female Beauty (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10F: Pre-Organized Panel: Datafication, Aesthetics, Sensory Experimentation (New Books)
Chair:
David Parisi (College of Charleston, United States)
11:00
Mark Paterson (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
David Parisi (College of Charleston, United States)
Erica Fretwell (University of Albany, SUNY, United States)
Jacob Gaboury (UC Berkeley, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Datafication, Aesthetics, Sensory Experimentation (New Books) (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10G: Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 1: Spinning History
Chair:
Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California, United States)
11:00
Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California, United States)
Jamie Jones (University of Illinois, United States)
Siobhan Carroll (University of Delaware, United States)
Walter Gordon (University of Alberta, Canada)
Michael Rubenstein (Stonybrook University, United States)
Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 1: Spinning History (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10H: Workshop: An Atlas of Media Topography
Chairs:
Sam Kellogg (New York University, United States)
Rory Solomon (The New School for Social Research, United States)
11:00
Sam Kellogg (New York University, United States)
Rory Solomon (The New School for Social Research, United States)
Alejandra Bronfman (SUNY Albany, United States)
Nadine Chan (Claremont Graduate University, United States)
Shannon Mattern (The New School for Social Research, United States)
Rafico Ruiz (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Canada)
Workshop: An Atlas of Media Topography (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 11: Keynote Plenary: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Imani Cooper Mkandawire, “Theorizing in a Void”: Towards a Theory and Practice of Black Feminist Mathematics and Science

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/ 

Chair:
Imani Cooper Mkandawire (University of Michigan, United States)
15:00-16:30 Session 12A
Chair:
Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo, United States)
15:00
Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo, United States)
Aphrodisiac in the Machine (abstract)
15:15
Julie Funk (University of Victoria, Canada)
She ripples happily: coding hormones and slimy narratives in With Those We Love Alive (abstract)
15:30
Corporal Outis (Independent artist/scholar, United States)
The Surprisingly-Familiar and Not-so-Alien Art of the Star Wars Galaxy (abstract)
15:45
Alan O'Leary (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Another Cyborg Manifesto (Workshop of Potential scholarship) (abstract)
16:00
Devon Ward (Ball State University, United States)
Vital Signs: Representations on the Agency-Personhood Continuum (APC) (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12B: Roundtable: Transhistorical Energy Humanities
Chairs:
Kristin George Bagdanov (University of California, Davis, United States)
Elizabeth Miller (University of California, Davis, United States)
15:00
Kristin George Bagdanov (University of California, Davis, United States)
Elizabeth Miller (University of California, Davis, United States)
Kevin MacDonnell (Rice University, United States)
Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University, United States)
Ashley Sarpong (University of California, Davis, United States)
Chris Walker (Colby College, United States)
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick University, UK)
Thomas Davis (Ohio State University, United States)
Roundtable: Transhistorical Energy Humanities (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12C
Chair:
WhiteFeather Hunter (The University of Western Australia, Canada)
15:00
WhiteFeather Hunter (The University of Western Australia, Canada)
Molly McKinney (Independent Scholar, United States)
COVID-19 and the Embodiment of Disruption: Assemblages of Agency and the Turducken of Chaos (abstract)
15:15
Judy Ehrentraut (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Adam Cilevitz (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Conjuring the G(host): Mutual Isolation and the Horror of Telepresence (abstract)
15:30
Stephanie Kinzinger (UNC at Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature, United States)
Playing with "Control": Spatial Epistemology in Interactive Gameplay (abstract)
15:45
Stephanie Springgay (McMaster University, Canada)
Incipient energy and walking research-creation (abstract)
16:00
Riley Wilson (University of Michigan, United States)
“If you’re seeing this, it’s meant for you”: algorithmic divination and deferred desire on TikTok (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12D: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 3: Becoming possibilities: an exploration of boundaries, barriers, and potentials of energy through Gilbert Simondon’s notion of anxiety
Chair:
Michael Beach (University of Washington, United States)
15:00
Michael Beach (University of Washington, United States)
Anisha Uppugonduri (N/A, United States)
Angela Sakrison (Arizona State University, United States)
Muindi Muindi (University of Washington, United States)
Garrett Johnson (Arizona State University, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 3: Becoming possibilities: an exploration of boundaries, barriers, and potentials of energy through Gilbert Simondon’s notion of anxiety (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12E: Roundtable on Antoine Traisnel's Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition
Chair:
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan, United States)
15:00
Bénédicte Boisseron (University of Michigan, United States)
Susan McHugh (University of New England, United States)
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, United States)
Cary Wolfe (Rice University, United States)
Antoine Traisnel (University of Michigan, United States)
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan, United States)
Roundtable on Antoine Traisnel's Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12F
Chair:
Megan O'Donnell (University of Delaware, United States)
15:00
Megan O'Donnell (University of Delaware, United States)
Fairies, Fire, and Fossil Fuels in Victorian Literature and Science (abstract)
15:15
Charlee Bezilla (Northern Virginia Community College, United States)
The Machine-Man and Imperial Energy in French Proto-Science-Fiction (abstract)
15:30
Zachary Price (Oregon State University, United States)
Theorizing Molecular Vitalism: Molecular Movement and Luminosity in Popular Film (abstract)
15:45
Doug Stark (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, UK)
Aesthetic Exercise Machines: Video Game Training in Harun Farocki’s Serious Games and Parallel Series (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12G: Arts Lounge: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights: A Staged Reading
Chair:
Kim Adams (New York University, United States)
15:00
Kim Adams (New York University, United States)
Vignesh Sridharan (New York University, United States)
William Page (Brown University, United States)
Arts Lounge: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights: A Staged Reading (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12H: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "The Antipodean Stream" 1: Making Works of Art with Energies
Chair:
Heather Contant (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy)
15:00
Heather Contant (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy)
Douglas Kahn (Sydney University, Australia)
Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Rachel Shearer (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Claudia Arozqueta (University of New South Wales, Mexico)
Pia Van Gelder (Australian National University, Australia)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "The Antipodean Stream" 1: Making Works of Art with Energies (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12I: Arts Lounge: Breath is a False Flag – A Guided VR Excursion and Conversation
Chair:
Paul Catanese (Columbia College Chicago, United States)
15:00
Paul Catanese (Columbia College Chicago, United States)
Jane Prophet (University of Michigan, United States)
Arts Lounge: Breath is a False Flag – A Guided VR Excursion and Conversation (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 12J: Roundtable: Coding Power: critical code studies approaches to the forms and limits of software in society
Chairs:
Jeremy Douglass (UC Santa Barbara, United States)
Mark Marino (ELO, United States)
15:00
Mark Marino (ELO, United States)
Jeremy Douglass (UC Santa Barbara, United States)
Lai-Tze Fan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Zach Mann (University of Southern California, United States)
Sarah Ciston (University of Souther California, United States)
Roundtable: Coding Power: critical code studies approaches to the forms and limits of software in society (abstract)
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08:30-08:45 Session 14: Welcoming Remarks and Updates by SLSA2021 Team: Eastern Daylight Time Zone (Ann Arbor/Detroit/GMT-4)

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

09:00-10:30 Session 15A: Pre-Organized Panel: Fashioning Energy Extraction and Restoration: Critical Inquiries through Wearable Creative Practice
Chair:
Kathleen McDermott (New York University, United States)
09:00
Amor Muñoz (Artist, Mexico)
Mukhtara Yusuf (Ìlẹ̀ Laboratory, Nigeria)
Afroditi Psarra (DXARTS, UW, United States)
Kathleen McDermott (New York University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Fashioning Energy Extraction and Restoration: Critical Inquiries through Wearable Creative Practice (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 15B: Pre-Organized Panel: Vegetal Flows of Energy
Chair:
Dakota Gearhart (Independent, United States)
09:00
Laura Foster (Indiana University, Bloomington, United States)
Sushmita Chatterjee (Appalachian State University, United States)
Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States)
Xan Chacko (Wellesley College, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Vegetal Flows of Energy (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 15C: Pre-Organized Panel: Mind thGAP: the Transgenic Human Genome Alternatives Project (thGAP): Open Source Bioinformatics for Human Gene Editing
Chair:
Adam Zaretsky (NADLinc, United States)
09:00
Adam Zaretsky (NADLinc, United States)
Paula Pin (researcher and artist activist, Spain)
Praba Pilar (The Hindsite Institute and Larval Rock Stars, United States)
Cristian Delgado (Nehemeni Labs, Mexico)
Marc Dusseiller (Hackteria, Switzerland)
Pre-Organized Panel: Mind thGAP: the Transgenic Human Genome Alternatives Project (thGAP): Open Source Bioinformatics for Human Gene Editing (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 15D: Pre-Organized Panel: Modulating the Invisible
Chair:
Cristina Albu (University of Missouri - Kansas City, United States)
09:00
Cristina Albu (University of Missouri - Kansas City, United States)
James Nisbet (University of California Irvine, United States)
Sandrine Canac (Independent Researcher, United States)
Francesca Curtis (University of York, UK)
Ksenia Fedorova (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Pre-Organized Panel: Modulating the Invisible (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 15E: Roundtable: After Darwin
Chair:
Deanna Kreisel (University of Mississippi, United States)
09:00
Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California, United States)
Carol Colatrella (Georgia Tech, United States)
Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington, United States)
Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Deanna Kreisel (University of Mississippi, United States)
Roundtable: After Darwin (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 15F: Arts Lounge: Phygital Evolution(s)
Chair:
Yvette Granata (University of Michigan, United States)
09:00
Yvette Granata (University of Michigan, United States)
Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai, China)
Peter Nelson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Tony Yanick (SUNY Buffalo, United States)
Arts Lounge: Phygital Evolution(s) (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 17A: Pre-Organized Panel: Exploring Energy Flows in Vibrant Ecologies of Research
Chairs:
Aaron Knochel (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Veronica Stanich (a2ru Ground Works, United States)
11:00
Aaron Knochel (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Veronica Stanich (a2ru Ground Works, United States)
Eric Benson (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Mary Beth Leigh (University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States)
Lissy Goralnik (Michigan State University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Exploring Energy Flows in Vibrant Ecologies of Research (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 17B: CANCELLED. Roundtable: Sweet and Salty waters between Energy and Exhaustion: collective thought as method
Chair:
Anne-Sophie Bogetoft Mortensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
11:00
Anne-Sophie Bogetoft Mortensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Aster Hoving (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris (University of New South Wales, Stockholm University, Sweden)
Cecilie Baann (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Fine Brendtner (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Linda Lapina (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Roundtable: Sweet and Salty waters between Energy and Exhaustion: collective thought as method (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 17C: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Energy and Individuation" 3: Ecological Economics
Chair:
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
11:00
Derek Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Zach Yost (University of Chicago, United States)
Burç Köstem (McGill University, Canada)
Thomas Patrick Pringle (Tulane University, United States)
Jerry Zee (Princeton University, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "Energy and Individuation" 3: Ecological Economics (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 17D: Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 2: Reading Oil
Chair:
Jamie Jones (University of Illinois, United States)
11:00
Stacey Balkan (Florida Atlantic University, United States)
Mark Simpson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Jeff Diamanti (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Wenjia Olivia Chen (Fudan University, China)
Michael Tondre (Stonybrook University, United States)
Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 2: Reading Oil (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 17E: Pre-Organized Panel: Powering the Past, Future, and Everything: Energy Sources in Literature from Steam to Solar and Beyond.
Chair:
Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Tech, United States)
11:00
Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Tech, United States)
Doug Davis (Gordon State College, United States)
Jenni Halpin (Savannah State University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Powering the Past, Future, and Everything: Energy Sources in Literature from Steam to Solar and Beyond. (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 17F: Roundtable: Artificial Ignorance
Chair:
Katherine Behar (Baruch College, CUNY, United States)
11:00
Louise Amoore (Durham University, UK)
Irina Aristarkhova (University of Michigan, United States)
Neda Atanasoski (University of Maryland, College Park, United States)
Katherine Behar (Baruch College, CUNY, United States)
Simone Browne (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
Patricia Ticineto Clough (Queens College, CUNY, United States)
M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex, UK)
Alexander Galloway (New York University, United States)
N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University, United States)
Sarah Hayden (University of Southampton, UK)
Hannah Holtzclaw (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Tung-Hui Hu (University of Michigan, United States)
Shaka McGlotten (Purchase College-SUNY, United States)
Jennifer Rhee (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
Christian Sandvig (University of Michigan, United States)
R. Joshua Scannell (The New School for Social Research, United States)
Roundtable: Artificial Ignorance (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18A: Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 3: Refocusing
Chair:
Mark Simpson (Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada)
13:00
Mark Simpson (Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada)
Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University, United States)
Monica Mohseni (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
Graeme Macdonald (University of Warwick, UK)
Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 3: Refocusing (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18B: SloMoCo Arts Lounge no. 2 & Panel // Living Code & Sharing Abundance
Chair:
Megan Young (Independent Artist, United States)
13:00
Roopa Vasudevan (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Kate Sicchio (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
Jie Qi (Chibitronics, United States)
Christy Bolingbroke (National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron (NCCAkron), United States)
Katya Rozanova (NYU Tisch, United States)
Greg Corness (Columbia College Chicago, United States)
Megan Young (Independent Artist, United States)
SloMoCo Art Lounge no. 2 & Panel // Living Code & Sharing Abundance (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18C: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 4: Life Touching Life Video Premiere
Chair:
Dakota Gearhart (Independent, United States)
13:00
Dakota Gearhart (Independent, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 4: Life Touching Life Video Premiere (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18D: Roundtable: Narrative Energy: Novelists on Why, When, and How they Write about Science
Chair:
Laura Otis (Emory University, United States)
13:00
Laura Otis (Emory University, United States)
Susan M. Gaines (Fiction Meets Science, Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)
Catherine Bush (University of Guelph, Canada)
Edward Schwarzschild (University at Albany, SUNY, United States)
Chrissy Kolaya (University of Central Florida, United States)
Roundtable: Narrative Energy: Novelists on Why, When, and How they Write about Science (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18E: Pre-Organized Panel: Decolonizing the Nuclear Age
Chair:
Jessica Hurley (George Mason University, United States)
13:00
Jessica Hurley (George Mason University, United States)
Livia Monnet (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Rebecca Hogue (Harvard University, United States)
Isabel Lockhart (Princeton University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Decolonizing the Nuclear Age (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18F: Social Networking Event: Woman and Energy
Chairs:
Ruth Robbins (Leeds Beckett,UK, UK)
Susan Watkins (Leeds Beckett, UK, UK)
13:00
Ruth Robbins (Leeds Beckett,UK, UK)
Susan Watkins (Leeds Beckett, UK, UK)
Social Networking Event: Woman and Energy (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18G: Roundtable: Afro-now-ism and Radical Artistic Actions for building shared, ethical and decolonial AI Infrastructures with Stephanie Dinkins, Mimi Onuha, Moreshin Allahyari and Jason Edward Lewis. Moderated by Srimoyee Mitra.
Chair:
Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan (Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, United States)
13:00
Srimoyee Mitra (University of Michigan, United States)
Roundtable: Afro-now-ism and Radical Artistic Actions for building shared, ethical and decolonial AI Infrastructures with Stephanie Dinkins, Mimi Onuha, Moreshin Allahyari and Jason Edward Lewis. Moderated by Srimoyee Mitra. (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18H: Pre-Organized Panel: DeepFake Energies
Chair:
Shane Denson (Stanford University, United States)
13:00
Shane Denson (Stanford University, United States)
Hannah Zeavin (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Casey Boyle (University of Texas-Austin, United States)
Hank Gerba (Stanford University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: DeepFake Energies (abstract)
13:00-14:30 Session 18I: Social Networking Event: Considering Artists with Evidence: Art, Science, and the Environment
Chairs:
Tamar Law (Artists with Evidence, United States)
Hannah Starr Rogers (Artist with Evidence, University of Edinburgh, UK)
13:00
Hannah Starr Rogers (Artist with Evidence, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Adam Law (Artists with Evidence, United States)
Scott Johnson (Artists with Evidence, American Institute of Architects, United States)
Tamar Law (Artists with Evidence, United States)
Social Networking Event: Considering Artists with Evidence: Art, Science, and the Environment (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19A: Roundtable: The Energies of Epigenetics in Literature, Art and Science
Chair:
Michelle Nancy Huang (Northwestern University, United States)
15:00
Michelle Nancy Huang (Northwestern University, United States)
Nat Mengist (University of Washington, United States)
Irina Aristarkhova (University of Michigan, United States)
Faith Wilding (Independent Artist, United States)
Hyla Willis (Robert Morris University, United States)
Roundtable: The Energies of Epigenetics in Literature, Art and Science (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19B: Roundtable: Neglected Terms: The Strange Relationship between Energy and Language
Chairs:
Laura Otis (Emory University, United States)
Stephanie Schaertel (Grand Valley State University Department of Chemistry, United States)
15:00
Laura Otis (Emory University Department of English, United States)
Stephanie Schaertel (Grand Valley State University Department of Chemistry, United States)
David Lynn (Emory University Departments of Chemistry and Biology, United States)
Nathan Kapoor (Grand Valley State University Department of History, United States)
Jake Lindale (Duke University Department of Chemistry, United States)
Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore College Department of Biology, United States)
Roundtable: Neglected Terms: The Strange Relationship between Energy and Language (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19C: Arts Lounge: Sonic Energy and the Work of Listening in Activist Art and Creative Writing: Listen, we all bleed by Mandy-Suzanne Wong (New Rivers Press, November 2021)
Chair:
Tracy McDonald (McMaster University, Canada)
15:00
Tracy McDonald (McMaster University, Canada)
Derek Jenkins (Niagara Customs Lab, Canada)
Mandy-Suzanne Wong (Writer, Bermuda)
Kathryn Eddy (artist, United States)
Arts Lounge: Sonic Energy and the Work of Listening in Activist Art and Creative Writing: Listen, we all bleed by Mandy-Suzanne Wong (New Rivers Press, November 2021) (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19D: Pre-Organized Panel: Computing Temporalities: Hauntings, Contingencies, and other Computational Conflagrations
Chair:
David Cecchetto (York University (Toronto), Canada)
15:00
David Cecchetto (York University, Canada)
Mitchell Akiyama (University of Toronto, Canada)
M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex, UK)
Ted Hiebert (University of Washington, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Computing Temporalities: Hauntings, Contingencies, and other Computational Conflagrations (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19E: Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 4: Looking Beyond
Chair:
Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University, United States)
15:00
Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University, United States)
Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University, United States)
Stacey Balkan (Florida Atlantic University, United States)
Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California, United States)
Stream of Roundtables "Petromyopia" 4: Looking Beyond (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19F: Roundtable: Fluxian Futures
Chairs:
Laurel Jean Fredrickson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States)
Roger Rothman (Bucknell University, United States)
Chris Wildrick (Syracuse University, United States)
15:00
Chris Wildrick (Syracuse University, United States)
Laurel Jean Fredrickson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States)
Roger Rothman (Bucknell University, United States)
Simon Anderson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States)
Duskin Drum (University of California Davis, United States)
Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
Susan Jarosi (Hamilton College, United States)
James W. McManus (California State University Chico, United States)
Craig Saper (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States)
Robert Spahr (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States)
Dennis Summers (Strategic Technologies for Art, Globe and Environment, United States)
Lauren Sudbrink (Independent Artist, United States)
Chris Reeves (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States)
Roundtable: Fluxian Futures (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19G: Pre-Organized Panel: Reading Computer-Generated Books
Chair:
Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington, United States)
15:00
Leah Henrickson (University of Leeds, UK)
James Ryan (Carleton College, United States)
Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington, United States)
Leonardo Flores (Appalachian State University, United States)
Pre-Organized Panel: Reading Computer-Generated Books (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19H: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 5: Unfriended (2014), a Riff-Along with Andrew Culp
Chairs:
Garrett Johnson (Arizona State University, United States)
Angela Sakrison (Arizona State University, United States)
15:00
Andrew Culp (California Institute of the Arts, United States)
Muindi Fanuel Muindi (University of Washington, United States)
Angela Sakrison (Arizona State University, United States)
Garrett Johnson (Arizona State University, United States)
Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "AWEsome Stream" 5: Unfriended (2014), a Riff-Along with Andrew Culp (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 19I: Stream of Pre-Organized Panels "The Antipodean Stream" 2: "Creating Creative Movements with Energies"

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.

Chair:
Heather Contant (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy)
17:00-18:30 Session 20: Closing Keynote: Cristóbal Martinez and Liz Lerman, chaired by Jane Prophet "Our Fathers, Crimes, and the Nature of Energy in the Universe"

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.

 

Chair:
Jane Prophet (University of Michigan, United States)