Friday, 8 February 2019
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142 (unless otherwise noted)
Coffee & Petite Breakfast (8:30-9:15)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
Welcoming (9:15-9:30)
Space/Place (9:30-10:50)
"I Think We’re Alone Now: Dead Malls and Queer Loneliness" Erin Nunoda, University of Toronto
"Oral Roberts University and “Taste in America”" Rachel Julia Engler, Columbia University
"Prison Media and Punishment Policy: Examining the Role of Reality TV in American Juvenile Delinquency Programming” Rachel Thompson, MIT
Respondent – Anne Nesbet, University of California, Berkeley
[Break]
Nostalgia/Format(11:00-12:20)
"Running the Wrong Pattern: TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl" Brett Kashmere, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Lo-fi, Lo-taste, and Lo-nostalgia: Understanding the Resurgence of Cassette Tapes in the Era of Streaming" Amaru Tejeda, University of California, Santa Barbara
"“Too Bright, Fits Wrong”: Superpose, Glitched Forms, and Filmic Non-Continuity" Tony Wei Ling, University of California, Los Angeles
Respondent – Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley
[Lunch Break]
Media/Industry (1:30-3:15)
"Reimagining Sholay: Industrial Dispersion, Film Circuits, and Malegaon’s Video Productions" Ramna Walia, University of Texas at Austin
"Baking a Sweet Success: Specificity and Universality in the Great British Baking Show" Yu Jin Jeong, University of Southern California
"Poisoning Taste: Attacks on the Film Industry in 1910’s Germany" Alicia Roy, University of California, Berkeley
“On my Planet, I’m Also Kind of a Loser”: Sony Pictures, Studio Symbiosis, and Venom" Sophie Gilmore, Harvard University
Respondent - Kristen Whissel, University of California, Berkeley
[Break]
Surveillance/Control (3:30-4:50)
"The Whole World Gon’ See You, Boo: Surveillance, Sousveillance, and Racialized Subjectivity in the “Permit Patty” Video" Victoria Le-Sweatman, University of Iowa
"Eyes Without Consciousness: The Decentering of the Human in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes" Andrea Avidad, Bronx Community College
"The Atmospheric Image: Between the Visible and the Invisible" Shuyi Xiong, Columbia University
Respondent – Jeffrey Skoller, University of California, Berkeley
Keynote – Laila Shereen Sakr, University of California, Santa Barbara (5:00-6:30)
"A Theory of the Glitch"
Opening Reception (6:30-8:00)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
Saturday, 9 February 2019
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142 (unless otherwise noted)
Coffee & Petite Breakfast (8:30-9:00)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
Taste/Quality (9:00-10:45)
"“Blood and Thunder” and Quality: “Noise”’s Evolution from Perverting Force to Sign of Quality in Twentieth Century Crime Programming" Catherine Martin, Boston University
"Sexual Violence as a Marker of Quality Television" Samantha Freeman, Northwestern University
"Haute Documentary: the Paradox of Democratization and Distinction in the Aesthetics of Food Documentaries and Online Video Reviews" Jing Xian Yang, USC
"You Beggin’ For Attention: The Mind of Jake Paul, De-Narcissism and YouTube Identity" Will Tamura, Columbia University
Respondent – Mark Sandberg, University of California, Berkeley
[Break]
Keynote – Rick Prelinger, University of California, Santa Cruz (11-12:30)
"Thinking Beyond Media Binaries"
Catered Lunch
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
Body/Gender (1:30-2:50)
"Journey in Super-8: A Filmic Frame for Ana Mendieta's Early Works" Laurel McLaughlin, Bryn Mawr College
"“For the Female of the Species is More Deadly than the Male”: Exhuming the Transtemporal Body of the Black Woman Vampire in Speculative Art" Jasper Lauderdale, NYU
"Cameras, Reports, and Gatherings: LARNET (Labor Reporter's Network) and Spaces of Liberation Found Online" Diana Ryu, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Respondent – Damon Young, University of California, Berkeley
[Break]
Resolution/Aesthetics (3:00-4:20)
"Cloud Screens, Cloud Vision: Sky Display as a Matter of Resolution" Caufield Schnug, Harvard University
"The Image Against Itself: Pixels and Politics in the Age of High Resolution" Colin Ross, Independent Scholar
"Fidelity at Home: Connoisseur Discourses of AV Compression in the Long 1990s" Jason LaRiviere, New York University
Respondent – Jacob Gaboury, University of California, Berkeley
Closing Remarks – Abigail De Kosnik, University of California, Berkeley (4:30-5:00)
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
Taste/Quality (9:00-10:45)
"“Blood and Thunder” and Quality: “Noise”’s Evolution from Perverting Force to Sign of Quality in Twentieth Century Crime Programming" Catherine Martin, Boston University
"Sexual Violence as a Marker of Quality Television" Samantha Freeman, Northwestern University
"Haute Documentary: the Paradox of Democratization and Distinction in the Aesthetics of Food Documentaries and Online Video Reviews" Jing Xian Yang, USC
"You Beggin’ For Attention: The Mind of Jake Paul, De-Narcissism and YouTube Identity" Will Tamura, Columbia University
Respondent – Mark Sandberg, University of California, Berkeley
[Break]
Keynote – Rick Prelinger, University of California, Santa Cruz (11-12:30)
"Thinking Beyond Media Binaries"
Catered Lunch
Dwinelle Hall, Room 7337
Body/Gender (1:30-2:50)
"Journey in Super-8: A Filmic Frame for Ana Mendieta's Early Works" Laurel McLaughlin, Bryn Mawr College
"“For the Female of the Species is More Deadly than the Male”: Exhuming the Transtemporal Body of the Black Woman Vampire in Speculative Art" Jasper Lauderdale, NYU
"Cameras, Reports, and Gatherings: LARNET (Labor Reporter's Network) and Spaces of Liberation Found Online" Diana Ryu, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Respondent – Damon Young, University of California, Berkeley
[Break]
Resolution/Aesthetics (3:00-4:20)
"Cloud Screens, Cloud Vision: Sky Display as a Matter of Resolution" Caufield Schnug, Harvard University
"The Image Against Itself: Pixels and Politics in the Age of High Resolution" Colin Ross, Independent Scholar
"Fidelity at Home: Connoisseur Discourses of AV Compression in the Long 1990s" Jason LaRiviere, New York University
Respondent – Jacob Gaboury, University of California, Berkeley
Closing Remarks – Abigail De Kosnik, University of California, Berkeley (4:30-5:00)