URGENT,Symposium on Feminist New Media Art: Char Davies,Toni Dove, and Zoe Beloff

March 28, 2004

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> Symposium on Feminist New Media Art at the University of Montreal

> Gender,Subjectivity,Embodiment, and the Transformation of Cinematic
> Practice
> in Contemporary New Media Art: Exploring the Interactive Work of Char
> Davies,Toni Dove,and Zoe Beloff
> April 29,2004, 8:30am-5:30 pm
> University of Montreal, Pav.Lionel Groulx Bldg.,3150 Jean Brillant, Rm
> B-0235
> Subway/Metro Station Cote des Neiges
> Organizer: Livia Monnet, University of Montreal
> Funded by the Department of Comparative Literature,The Center for
> Intermediality Studies (CRI), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the
> Vice-Dean's Office Research Bureau, School of Graduate Studies,
> University
> of Montreal
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> Women have been at the forefront of the digital arts for over three
> decades.
> Their pioneering role is documented in the work of artists such as Vera
> Molnar, Colette Bangert, Monique Nahas, Lillian Schwartz, Sherrie
> Rabinowitz, Lucia Grossberger Morales, Steina, and Lynn Hershman.
> Since the
> 1990s the number of women artists working in new media has grown
> exponentially, and their artistic practice is so diverse as to make a
> comprehensive survey a nearly impossible task. Internationally
> acclaimed
> artists include Catherine Richards, Jill Scott, Anne-Marie Schreiner,
> Agnes
> Hegedues, Andrea Zapp, Sonya Rapoport, Char Davies, Victoria Vesna,
> Mariko
> Mori, Rejane Spitz, Diana Domingues, Helen Thorington, Toni Dove, Zoe
> Beloff, and Seiko Mikami. Collaborative artists' projects such as Dawn
> Stopiello and Mark Coniglio's Troika Ranch performances featuring
> dancers
> equipped with wireless MidiDancer sensors; Michel Bret and Marie-Helene
> Tramus's neural networks- and genetic algorithms-based,
> computer-monitored
> virtual dancer installation, Danse avec moi (Dance with me, 2001); and
> Monika Fleischman and Wolfgang Strauss's immersive CAVE-based
> installations
> and artificial life environments have also attracted a great deal of
> attention. If digital art is here to stay, as Christiane Paul notes
> with
> some satisfaction in her recent study on this burgeoning art practice
> (Digital Art, Thames and Hudson, 2003), so do women's vital
> contributions to
> it.
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> Focusing on the interactive work of three celebrated artists, Char
> Davies,
> Zoe Beloff and Toni Dove, this symposium explores the richness,
> diversity
> and conceptual challenge of contemporary new media art by women. The
> morning
> session features presentations by Davies, Beloff and Dove themselves
> as well
> as video screenings of their recent installations and
> work-in-progress. The
> afternoon session features papers by Canadian and American scholars,
> critics
> and curators of new media art which contextualize, and propose in-depth
> readings the work of Davies, Beloff and Dove, as well as of other
> women new
> media artists. The issues examined in these presentations include the
> reinvention of the history, techniques, and "optical unconscious" of
> cinema
> and animation; philosophies of embodiment in virtual space and of the
> embodied interface; haptic aesthetics, the performativity of affect
> and the
> voice in virtual environments and interactive cinema; feminist
> revisionist
> rewritings of classical psychoanalysis, and of the discourse of
> spiritualism
> in the late nineteenth, and early twentieth-century; and finally the
> role of
> genre fiction and the uncanny in the the digital arts.
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> Funded by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for
> Intermedia Research, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the
> Vice-Dean of
> Graduate Studies Research Bureau at the University of Montreal
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> Subventionne par le Departement de litterature comparee, le Centre de
> recherche sur l'intermedialite, la Faculte des Arts et des Sciences,
> et le
> Vice-decanat a la recherche de la Faculte des Etudes superieures,
> Universite
> de Montreal
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> Information : Phone :514-343-6340, 514-343-7433
>> Email : [email protected],
[email protected]
>> URL : http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/cri/fr/
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> Gender, Embodiment,Subjectivity, and the Transformation of Cinematic
Practice in Contemporary New Media Art: Exploring the
Interactive Work of Char Davies, Toni Dove, and Zoe Beloff
>> An International Conference at the University of Montreal
>> April 29, 2004, 8:30 am-5:30 pm
3200 Jean Brillant Bldg., Rm B-0325, 3150 Jean Brillant, Subway
Cote-des-Neiges
>> Organizer: Livia Monnet, University of Montreal
>> Funded by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for
Intermediality Studies (CRI), the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Vice-Dean's Office Research
> Bureau, School of Graduate Studies at the University of Montreal

>> Program

>> 8:30 am -8:45 am Livia Monnet, Professor of Comparative Literature, Film
and Media Studies, University of Montreal
> Welcome Address and Introductory Remarks
> 8:45 - 9:35 am Char Davies, Artist, Montreal
>> "Landscapes of Ephemeral Embrace"
>> 9:35 - 10:25 am Zoe Beloff, Artist, New York
>> "Towards a Spectral Cinema"
>> 10:25 - 10:45 am Coffee Break
>> 10:45 - 11:35 am Toni Dove, Artist, New York
> "Haunting the Movie: Embodied Interface and Sensory Cinema"
> 11:35am - 12:05 pm Discussion
> 12:10pm - 1:30 pm Lunch at "Raga"
>>(Indian Cuisine, Ample Selection of Vegetarian Dishes)
> 1:35 - 2:05 pm Carol Gigliotti, Associate Professor of Digital Art and
Digital Media, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
>> "The Ethical Subject: Ethics and Subjectivity in the Interactive Work of
Toni Dove and Char Davies"
> 2:05 - 2:35 pm Bruno Lessard, Doctoral Candidate, University of
Montreal
> "Beyond the Cinema : Zoe Beloff's Digital Specters and Embodied Mental
Geography"
> 2:35 - 3:05 pm Kathy Brew, New Media Art Critic and Curator, Eyebeam,
New York University, New
> School University
> "Alice Morphs Through the Looking Glass"
> 3:05 - 3:25 pm Coffee Break
> 3:25 - 3:55 pm Timothy Murray, professor of Comparative lLiterature,
Film, and New Media Studies, Cornell University
> "Touching Voices: The Return of Affect in Interactive Cinema"
> > 3:55 - 4:35 pm Discussion and Round Table with Conference Participants
>"Futures of Digital Art/Avenirs de l'Art numerique"
> 4:35 - 4:50 pm Livia Monnet, University of Montreal
>Closing Remarks
>5 pm End of Conference
5:30 - 6:30 pm Dinner at "Commensal" (Vegetarian Restaurant)
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> More information, abstracts, and participants'biographies available at
> http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/cri/fr/ from
>> March 29,2004.Contact : Livia Monnet, [email protected],
> Brigitte Faivre-Dubroz, [email protected] .
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