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

>>> For immediate release
>>>> 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.3200 Jean Brillant Bldg.,3150 Jean
> Brillant,B-0325
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Information : Phone :514-343-6340
>>>> Email : [email protected]
>>>> URL : http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/cri/fr/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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, 8:30 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
>>>>
>>>> University of Montreal, Pav.3200 Jean Brillant Bldg.,Rm B-0325, 3150
> Jean
>>>> Brillant, Subway/Metro
>>>> Cote-des-Neiges
>>>>
>>>> Program
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 8:30 am Livia Monnet, Professor,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"
>>>> 11:35 - 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)
>>>>
>>>> More information, abstracts, and participants' biographies
>>>> available at
>>>> http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/cri/fr/
>>>> Contact : Livia Monnet, [email protected],
>>>> 514-343-6340