URGENT,Symposium on Feminist New Media Art: Char Davies,ToniDove, and Zoe Beloff,29.04.04,final program

March 31, 2004

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Dear list,could you post the follqoing announcement on Raw,fresh texts and
all other pertinent lists?Many thanks.The complete program with
abstracts,bios, etc is in the attached file.many thanks.Livia
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> >> For immediate release
> >> Symposium on Feminist New Media Art at the University of Montreal
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> >> 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.3200 Jean Brillant Bldg.,3150 Jean
Brillant,B-0325
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> >> 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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> >> 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 Symposium at the University of Montreal
> >> April 29, 2004, 8:am-5:30 pm
> >> 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
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> >> University of Montreal, Pav.3200 Jean Brillant Bldg.,Rm B-0325, 3150
Jean
> >> Brillant, Subway/Metro
> >> Cote-des-Neiges
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> >> Program
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> >> 8:30 am Livia Monnet, Professor,University of Montreal, Welcome
Address
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> >> 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"
> >> 11:35 - 12:05 Discussion
> >> 12:10 - 13:30 pm Lunch at "Raga" (Indian Cuisine, Ample Selection of
> >> Vegetarian Dishes, Queen Mary)
> >> 1:35 - 2:05 pm Carol Gigliotti, Associate Professor, 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, Critic and Curator, Eyebeam, New York
> >> University, New School
> >> "Alice Morphs Through the Looking Glass"
> >> 3:05 - 3:25 pm Coffee Break
> >> 3:25 - 3:55 pm Timothy Murray, Professor, 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, Cote des
> >> Neiges)
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> >> More information, abstracts, and participants' biographies available at
> >> http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/cri/fr/ from April 2, 2004.
> >> Contact : Livia Monnet, [email protected], 514-343-6340
> >> Brigitte Faivre-Dubroz, [email protected], 514-343-7433
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