<nettime-ann> Thinking the Surface: A Cornell Workshop on Screens, Mobilities, Environments in the Global Age

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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> Thinking the Surface
> A Workshop on Screens, Mobilities, Environments in the Global Age
>
>  Cornell University, Oct. 27-28, 2006
>
> Convened by Timothy Murray, Mohsen Mostafavi, María Fernández
> for The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, College of Arts and Sciences/ The 
> Dean's Lecture Series, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
>
> How might the surface and its extension in mobility contribute to the 
> evolving contexts of global networks, political frontiers, 
> architectonic environments, cinematic visions, and lived 
> subjectivities?  In relation to both the cinematic screen and the 
> architectural façade, the surface is both a philosophical construct 
> and an environmental event that challenges its subordination in the 
> binaries depth/surface, structure/appearance, mind/body, 
> nation/frontier. Participants will discuss international developments 
> in art, politics, architecture, philosophy, and new media that expand 
> the energetic event and promising agency of the surface in the global 
> age.
>
> Schedule of Events, free and open to the public
>
>  Friday, October 27, 2006
>
>  Opening Sessions
>  Guerlac Room, A. D. White House
>
>  2:00 Introduction by Mohsen Mostafavi and Timothy Murray
>
> 2:10-3:00 Cinematic Surfacings
> Timothy Murray, Department of Comparative Literature
>    "Poiesis and the Surface of New Media"
> Lauren Beeley, Department of Romance Studies
>     "Surreal Surfaces: Thinking Cinema through Artaud"
> Katherine Groo, Department of Comparative Literature
>     "Rereading Josephine Baker and the Surface of Ethnographic Film"
>
>   
>  3-4:15 Technological Complicities
> Chair: Phoebe Sengers, Depts. of Science & Technology Studies, 
> Information Science
>
> Park Doing, Department of Science and Technology Studies
>     "Laying on of the Laboratory Hands: Surfaces, Knowledge, Labor"
> Natalie Jeremijenko, Department of Art, UC San Diego; NYU 
> Distinguished Global Visiting
>     Professor
>     "Interfacing human and nonhuman; re: imagining the interplay; re: 
> calculating the interaction"
>
>
> Plenary Lecture
> 4:30  Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
> Chair:  Brett de Bary, The Society for the Humanities
>
> Brian Massumi, Department of Communication, University of Montreal
>  "The Body Transspatial: On the Art of the Event"
>
> Saturday, October 28, 2006
>  Guerlac Room, A. D. White House
>
> 9:30  Coffee and Bagels
>
>  10-12    Architectural Surfaces
> Chair: Buzz Spector, Department of Art
>
> Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
>     "Structuring the Surface"
> Paul Andersen and David Salomon, Department of Architecture
>     "The New Architecture of Patterns"
>
>  12-1:30    Lunch
>
>  1:30-3:00   The Personal and The Political in Art
> Chair:  Renate Ferro, Department of Art
>
> Horit Herman-Peled, Media Artist, Tel Aviv
>     "Witnessing in elusive surfaces"
> Brooke Singer, Preemptive Media Collective; Dept. of Art SUNY Purchase
>    "Upside-down and inside-out: A Reorientation Guide to Emerging and 
> Mobile Technologies"
>
> 3:15:4:45  Responsive Architecture
> Chair: Timothy Campbell, Department of Romance Studies
>
> Branden Hookway, Department of Architecture
>     "Cockpit Console Cubicle"
> Marc Böhlen, Media Studies (SUNY Buffalo)
>      "Preliminary Notes on a House for the Computer for the 21st 
> Century"
>
>  5:00-5:45  Rethinking the Surface: Workshop Roundtable
> Moderators: María Fernández and Timothy Murray


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