PROGRAM
Days: Thursday, October 6th Friday, October 7th Saturday, October 8th Sunday, October 9th
Thursday, October 6th
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12:30-13:00 Session 4: Plenary Address
Plenary address: welcome and introductions
Paula Leverage, Center for NeuroHumanities, SLC
Jennifer William, Head, School of Languages and Cultures
Sorin Matei, College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean of Research
Shannon McMullen and Dr. Fabian Winkler, Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance
13:00-14:30 Session 5A: Reading with Machines
(sponsored by the Department of History)
| 13:00 | Reading with Machines (abstract) |
13:00-14:30 Session 5B: Plantelligence I: Plant Intelligence/Human Intelligence
| 13:00 | Plantelligence (abstract) |
13:00-14:30 Session 5C: Gendered AI
| 13:00 | Measured interactions of task and labor allocation to feminized AIs (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Playing Woman: Natural Language Processing, Gender Play, and the Fantasy of Autonomous Technology (abstract) |
13:00-14:30 Session 5D: Game Studies I: Making the Jump: New Approaches to Platforming Games
(sponsored by the Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University)
| 13:00 | SLSA Game Studies Stream 2022 (abstract) |
13:00-14:30 Session 5E: Roundtable: “At the Margins: Artist-Author Roundtable”
| 13:00 | At the Margins Artist-Author Roundtable (abstract) |
13:00-14:30 Session 5F: Environmental Studies and Ecological Approaches to Reading and the Visual Arts: Repairs and Recoveries I
| 13:00 | List/Ecology: Literary Form and Technologies of Mourning in Carmen Maria Machado’s “Inventory” (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Reading Humans, Plants, and Algorithms: Botanical and Gendered Ecologies of Precision Agriculture in South Africa (abstract) |
13:00-14:30 Session 5G: Animation, Emojis and the Aesthetics of Recognition
| 13:00 | The Incommensurability of Computer-Generated Comics (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Response to Lisa Gitelman’s “Emoji Dick and the Eponymous Whale, An Essay in Four Parts”: The Troubled Reappropration of the Emoji in Emoji Dick (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Aesthetic Familiarity: When autistic readers see themselves in fiction (abstract) |
13:00-14:00 Session 5H: Arts Lounge: “Creative Imaging in A Generative Simulation”
| 13:00 | Arts Lounge: Creative Imaging In A Generative Simulation (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 6A: Roundtable: “Being Present/Expecting a Future: Our Reading Humans and Pedagogies of Hope.”
| 15:00 | Being Present/Expecting a Future: Our Reading Humans and Pedagogies of Hope (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 6B: Machine Learning
| 15:00 | Inverting Machine Learning with Marching Cubes (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Machine Learning: The Road Past Stagnation and Confusion (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 6C: Environment and the Machine
| 15:00 | Archival Wastelands: the environmental and epistemic toxicology of data collection (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Human-Rock Interaction: A Topological Framework (abstract) |
15:00-17:00 Session 6D: Collective World-building Workshop.
Participation is limited, please sign up for this workshop from the conference website “Workshops” tab.
| 15:00 | Dis/embodied audio-visual collage: Collective world-building workshop (abstract) |
17:45-19:15 Session 7: Keynote: Anna Ridler, “Circadian Rhythms: The Practice and Proof of Making Art with Machines.”
Keynote Lecture (sponsored by the Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance and the Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries).
Introduction by Erika Kvam, Director and Head Curator, Purdue University Galleries, Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance.
Friday, October 7th
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08:30-10:00 Session 10A: Reading Owen’s Mind: Owen F. Smith Reading Fluxus and Minding Intermedia
| 08:30 | Reading Owen’s Mind: Owen F Smith Reading Fluxus and Minding Intermedia (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 10B: New Techno-Critical Methodologies in AI Studies I: Towards New(er) Criticism: Artificial Intelligence and Literary Dispositions
| 08:30 | New Techno-Critical Methodologies in AI Studies (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 10C: Environmental Studies and Ecological Approaches to Reading and the Visual Arts: Repairs and Recoveries II
| 08:30 | The Ecological Essay: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Lyric Consciousness (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Good Fire: Solastalgia to Soliphilia (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 10D: Technology as Fiction: The Role of Creative-Critical Writing in Reading Automation and Artificial Intelligence
| 08:30 | Technology As Fiction: The Role of Creative-Critical Writing in Reading Automation & Artificial Intelligence (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 10E: Technologies and Experiences of Reading I
| 08:30 | On Abstraction: Designing Accessible Reading Experience (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Viral Lyric Reading (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Making Meaning of Digital Literacy: Processes and Practices of Reading in Digital Media and Learning Ecologies (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 10F: Cognitive Assemblages and (Dis)embodiment: Images of AI in Film and Literature
| 08:30 | Inhuman Sensibilities: AI Transindividuation in Recent Hollywood Cinema (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Dreaming Cognitive Assemblages: Artificial Intelligence and Media Shifts in Robot Narratives from Philip K. Dick to Annalee Newitz (abstract) |
| 11:30 | AI, Narratives, and the Paradox of Anthropomorphism (abstract) |
09:00-10:00 Session 11: Workshop: “textBox: A Creative Computing Toolkit That Activates The History of Chinese Computing.”
Participation is limited, please sign up for this workshop from the conference website “Workshops” tab.
| 09:00 | textBox: A Creative Computing Toolkit That Activates The History of Chinese Computing (abstract) |
10:00-12:00 Session 12B: “Marching Cubes: an Inverted Machine Learning Workshop”
Participation is limited, please sign up for this workshop from the conference website “Workshops” tab.
| 10:00 | Marching Cubes: an Inverted Machine Learning Workshop (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 13A: Artificial Ignorance I: Infrastructures of Ignorance
| 10:30 | Artificial Ignorance (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 13B: Thinking with Cinema: Montage, Time, Revolution, Science, and Sickness I
| 10:30 | Thinking with Cinema: Montage, Time, Revolution, Science, and Sickness. Sessions One and Two (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 13C: Modes of Reading: Three Medical Humanities Approaches to Texts
| 10:30 | Modes of Reading: Three Medical Humanities Approaches to Texts (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 13D: Rendering AI: Affective and Aesthetic Screens
| 10:30 | Rendering AI: Affective and Aesthetic Screens (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 13E: Pushing the Limits of Embodiment
| 10:30 | Multimodal Touch Imagery in Reading Minds: Touching with Every Sense in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (abstract) |
| 12:00 | “Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cognition to Embodiment in Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘The Circular Ruins’ and Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper” (abstract) |
| 13:30 | Musical Instruments, Embodied Minds, and Sounding Human (abstract) |
13:00-15:00 Session 15A: “Collective World-building Workshop”
Participation is limited, please sign up for this workshop from the conference website “Workshops” tab.
13:00-15:00 Session 15B: Workshop: “Radio Play: Live Participatory Worldbuilding with GPT-3”
Participation is limited, please sign up for this workshop from the conference website “Workshops” tab.
| 13:00 | Radio Play: Live Participatory Worldbuilding with GPT-3 (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 16A: Extrasensory Perception
| 13:30 | Extrasensory Perception (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 16C: Machines and Texts as Screens for the Reading Mind I : In Search of the Reading Subject
| 13:30 | Machines and texts as screens for the reading mind (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 16D: Roundtable: “Reading and Writing Intelligence Across the Organ(ism)ic/Artificial Divide.”
| 13:30 | Reading and Writing Intelligence Across the Organ(ism)ic/Artificial Divide (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 16E: Can Narratives and Virtual Reality Increase Empathy?
| 13:30 | Empathy Development in the L2 Literature Classroom (abstract) |
| 15:00 | On Banned Books and Measuring Readers’ Empathy in the Digital Era (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Does virtual reality increase empathy in users? Results from a meta-analysis (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 16G: Insides and Outsides
| 13:30 | Design for Healing and Recovery from Eating Disorders (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Interoceptive technologies. Media of de/sensitization (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Listening to the language of the machine (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 16H: Creativity: Machine and Man
| 13:30 | Digital Literacy is DOOM'd: Examining How Software "Modders" Understand Their Creative Practices (abstract) |
| 15:00 | 'The True Survey of the Mind': Reading Marvell Cognitively (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Reading Emotions in Don Quixote (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 17B: Reading Colors: Reflections from Poetics to Science
| 15:30 | Panel: Reading Colors: Reflections from Poetics to Science (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 17C: Recognizing Futures in the Times of Surveillant Technologies
| 15:30 | Recognizing Futures in the Times of Surveillant Technologies (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 17D: Brain, Narrative and Identity
| 15:30 | Narrating the Fragmenting Brain: Digital Neuronarratives and Alzheimer’s Disease (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Unnatural Natural Histories: Lyell, Freud, and Narratives of Empirical Witness (abstract) |
| 18:30 | The Narrative Mind (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 17E: Algorithms
| 15:30 | Volitional unknowing: reanimating the queer potential of AI to resist an algorithmic determination of thoughtfulness on Bumble (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Teaching Algorithmic Bias in an Ethics and Social Justice Course (abstract) |
| 18:30 | Reading the readers: “dark sousveillance” and algorithmic literacies on social media (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 17F: Natural Language Processing and Social Contexts
| 15:30 | Superreaders: Recognizing The Literary Value Of Language Models (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Utopian Vectors: Word Embeddings and Semantic Change in Speculative Fiction (abstract) |
| 18:30 | Human Processing of Machine Translation: On Warren Weaver’s Implicit Reader of Mechanical Translations (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 17G: Roundtable: “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?”
| 15:30 | Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own? (abstract) |
17:30-19:00 Session 18: Keynote: K Allado-McDowell, “Latent Space is the Place.”
Keynote Lecture (sponsored by The School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University)
Introduction by Jennifer William, Head, School of Languages and Cultures.
19:00-20:30 Reception
Digital Color Expressions and NeuroArt Lounge, North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union (during the reception)
Petronio Bendito (Purdue University) and Tim Korb (RightFit Analytics, Inc.)
Saturday, October 8th
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08:30-10:00 Session 20B: Explaining the Unexplainable: critiquing machine learning across art, policing and the workplace
| 08:30 | Explaining The Unexplainable: critiquing machine learning across art, policing, and the workplace (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 20C: Machine Consciousness v. Self and Mortality in the History of Ideas
(sponsored by The Department of Philosophy, Purdue University)
| 08:30 | Homeostasis and the Mortality of Self-Reading Machines (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Evolution, AI, and Samuel Butler’s “The Book of the Machines”: A Pedagogical Perspective (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Human and Not Human: Erwin Schrödinger’s Theories of Consciousness; A Physicist in his Literary Context (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 20D: Possession, Spirituality and Grounding
| 08:30 | Simulating Empathy with Spiritual AI (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Artificial Possession: Exploring the Imbrications between Possession Literature and Brain Chips (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Mindreading is a Red Herring: Grounding neuro-hype by following a neurocognitive object (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 20E: Neuro networks: human, animal and other organisms
| 08:30 | The Human/e and the Rabbit Hole: The Recycling of Social Darwinist Tropes and Animalistic Metaphors in Contemporary Pop Tech Critique (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Animals and the Literature of COVID-19 (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 20F: Images, Films, Social Media
| 08:30 | You, the World, and I (2010) & perusing the generated archive (abstract) |
| 10:00 | A few scale tricks and how to avoid them (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Reading between the Lines of Sino-Anglo, Digital-Printed, Aural-Visual, Neural-Screen, and Bot-Bod (abstract) |
10:00-12:00 Session 21B: Workshop: “Terms of Fantasy Reader”
Participation is limited, please sign up for this workshop from the conference website “Workshops” tab.
| 10:00 | Terms of Service Fantasy Reader (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 22A: Three Artists Visibilizing the Invisible: Hilma af Klint, Athena Tacha, and Susan Hiller
| 10:30 | Three Artists Visibilizing the Invisible: Hilma af Klint, Athena Tacha, and Susan Hiller (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 22B: Biological v. Artificial Intelligence
| 10:30 | Neural Networks and AI (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Plants, AI, and the Animation of Life (abstract) |
| 13:30 | The problem of being a multiply conscious cerebral subject (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 22C: AI in the Workplace: Labor Ethics, Surveillance and Algorithms of Oppression
| 10:30 | Dorothy West’s “The Typewriter” and the Racialized Labor of Speech Recognition (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Machine Learning and the Rise of Computational Model Systems (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 22D: Sights and Sounds in Bytes
| 10:30 | Quantum Theater: the dramatization of physics (abstract) |
| 12:00 | What was Mathematical Reading?: On the Appel-Haken Proof of the Four-Color Theorem (1976) (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Neuroscience, Synaesthesia and Extraordinary Experience in Art (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 22E: Roundtable: “Art, Science and Technology Studies: An Emergent Field”
| 10:30 | Art, Science & Technology Studies: An Emergent Field (abstract) |
13:00-15:00 Session 23: Workshop: “Radio Play: Live Participatory Worldbuilding with GPT-3”
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13:30-15:00 Session 24D: AI, the Reading Mind, and Human Exceptionalism
| 13:30 | Embodied Cognition and Artificial Intelligence: What AI Cannot do (and Maybe Never Will) (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Writing AI Reading: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun as Allegory of Profession (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? Performativity, Difference, and Aesthetics in the Turing Test (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 24E: Let Sleeping Bots Lie
| 13:30 | Hypnopedia 2.0: Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Reading as Listening (and Sleeping) (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Scales of Intelligence: Dreams and Nightmares of 1950s AI (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Post-Truth: The Department of Truth and the Science of Fabricating Reality (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 24F: Computational Literary Analysis
| 13:30 | Humanizing Computational Literature Analysis Through Art-Based Visualizations (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Towards Tolkien research with computational literary analysis (abstract) |
| 16:30 | Word Prediction Algorithms and the Analysis of Literary Texts (abstract) |
13:30-15:00 Session 24G: War and Peace
| 13:30 | Narrative for Peace in Armed Conflict: Simulation, Empathy and Emotional Engagement with combatants and victims (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Neuroscience and Posthuman War: A Revolution in Military Affairs (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 25B: Roundtable: “The Machinic Unconscious and the Literary Reading”
| 15:30 | The Machinic Unconscious and the Literary Reading: A Roundtable (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 25C: We All Want to Change Your Head: Sonic Affordances and the Transformation of Self in the Extended Mind
| 15:30 | We All Want to Change Your Head: Sonic Affordances and the Transformation of Self in the Extended Mind (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 25D: Digital Humanities
| 15:30 | Deduction from Data: A Cognitive-Computational Analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Stories (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Teleology Trees and Layer Cakes: Simulated Histories in Video Games (abstract) |
| 18:30 | Flux, Wi-Fi, Fractals: Opening the Investigation into Spatial Rhythms (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 25E: Socially Transformative Art and Literature
| 15:30 | Language as a practice: a web application for glossary co-creation (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Prescription Poetry: Healthy Reading, Healthy Critique (abstract) |
| 18:30 | Reading Alzheimer's Anew (abstract) |
15:30-17:00 Session 25F: Science Fiction and Monster Theory
| 15:30 | Reading Time: Marcel Proust's Influence on Science Fiction (abstract) |
| 17:00 | “I Don’t Know Which of Us Should Be More Afraid of the Other”: Laura’s Lack of Agency within Le Fanu’s Carmilla (abstract) |
| 18:30 | Love Machine Reading: Exploring Human-AI Relations through Reading Practices in I’m Your Man (2021) (abstract) |
17:30-19:00 Session 26: Keynote: Donald Spector, “Quantum Mechanics as a Ritual of Ambivalence: Listening to the Language of Particle Physics.”
Keynote Lecture
Introduction by Peter Bermel, Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
20:30-22:00 Dance
Band: Frank Muffin
Sunday, October 9th
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08:30-10:00 Session 28A: Mapping Identities, Words and Places
| 08:30 | Geographies of Empathy: Reading-as-therapy at City-Scale (abstract) |
| 10:00 | !Toronto: A Non-linear and Generative Exploration of Toronto on Film (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Mapping Maxims: A Literary Landscape of İstanbul, Turkey (abstract) |
| 13:00 | Categorizations of Multiple-perspective Biographical Narratives (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 28B: Artifices and Artifacts: Translations on Simondon’s practices of making and thinking
| 08:30 | Artifices and artifacts: Translations on Simondon’s practices of making and thinking (abstract) |
08:30-10:00 Session 28C: Death and Resurrection of the Author
| 08:30 | “The Reanimation of the Author: Writing Human in the Digital Afterlife” (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Creative Dialectic: An analysis of AI + Human Collaboration and the question of Authorship. (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Switchbox Thinking (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 30B: The Human Gaze on Nature: Classification and Conservation
| 10:30 | Affective Engagement with Birdsong: Beyond Anthropocentrism (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Decolonizing Aquaria: A More-Than-Human History for the Future (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 30C: New Disciplinary Approaches in the Sciences and Humanities
| 10:30 | Newton on the Mesa (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Un-Earthing Reading: Literary Methods In Outer Space (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 30D: “Big Music/Big Mood: Affect, Radicalization, and Rhetorical Circulation in Contemporary Music”
Roundtable (sponsored by the English Department, Purdue University)
| 10:30 | Big Music/Big Mood: Affect, Radicalization, and Rhetorical Circulation in Contemporary Music (abstract) |
10:30-12:00 Session 30E: Posthuman, Human, and Monsters
| 10:30 | Feminine Bodyminds, Animacies, and Paths for Posthuman Survival in The Tiger Flu (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Weird Creatures: Romantic-era Science and the Horror of Nature (abstract) |
| 13:30 | Reading the Human: Envisioning Embryos in Octavia Butler’s Dawn (abstract) |