04 Apr Access/Trespass
Thursday, April 4-Friday, April 5
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts, UC San Diego)
The Media Fields collective will be holding its fourth graduate student conference, on the theme of “Access/Trespass,” this April 4th – 5th. The conference features a keynote talk by Professor Ricardo Dominguez entitled “Tactical Poetics, or How We Can Stop Worrying and Start Creating Disturbances (or learning from 80′s).” The conference panels are engaged with how the idea of “trespass” might be employed to energize, expand, negate, or flip the idea of access. We seek to explore the tactical, rhetorical, or strategic deployment of “trespass” in various media contexts, challenging notions of who is deemed a trespasser, and interrogating who is calling it trespass. The conference will also feature a screening of Ursula Biemann’s The Black Sea Files. Refreshments will be provided at all conference events.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Film and Media Studies, Graduate Student Association, Graduate Division, the MultiCultural Center, the Institute for Chicana and Chicano Studies, the Media Arts and Technology Program, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, the Dept. of English, the Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, and the IHC.
Web site: http://mediafields.wordpress.com/conferences/media-fields-4-access-trespass-2013/program/
Conference Schedule
April 4th, 2013
2:00-4:00 pm – Camera Obscura Open House reception (SSMS 2410)
5:00 pm – Keynote talk by Professor Ricardo Dominguez, McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)
Tactical Poetics, or How We Can Stop Worrying and Start Creating Disturbances (or learning from 80′s)
April 5th, 2013
*All Conference Events Take Place in McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) unless otherwise noted
8:30 am – light breakfast
9:00 am – Panel 1: Secrecy & Access
11:00 am – Panel 2: Anonymity and Surveillance
12:30 – 1:30 pm – break for lunch (will be provided)
1:30 pm – Panel 3: Staging Resistance
3:30 pm – Ursula Biemann film screening, The Black Sea Files (a co-collaboration with UCSB Film and Media Studies Professor Lisa Parks)
5:00 pm – Closing Roundtable with UCSB Film and Media Studies Alumni Chris Dzialo (PhD 2012) and Jeff Scheible (PhD 2011)
*Refreshments will be provided throughout the conference
Panels and Panelists:
1. Secrecy and Access:
Panel Respondent – Sarah Harris, PhD Candidate, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Abigail Hinsman, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
The Terrestrial Encounter at Area 51
Rahul Mukherjee, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
“You are the first and the last journalist to come here”: Accessing Strategic Technoscience Spaces, Potential Forms of Trespassing, and their “Risky” Outcomes
Daniel Grinberg, Communication and Culture, Indiana University
“This is My Country”: The Battle For Access and Space in Burma VJ
2. Anonymity and Surveillance
Panel Respondent – Noah Zweig, PhD Candidate, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Steven Malcic, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Accessing ARPAnet: The Emergence of Digital Identity
Monika Sengul-Jones, Communication and Science Studies, University of California San Diego
“Can we find out if she is pregnant?”: Narratives and practices of scoring data in predictive analytics
Andrew Gansky, American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Documenting Surveillance, Surveilling Documentary: Testimony and Anonymity in Jacqueline Goss’s Stranger Comes to Town
Michael Tauschinger-Dempsey, Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
Artist Talk: Access/Trespass and Forms of Surveillance
3. Staging Resistance
Panel Respondent – Maria Corrigan, PhD Candidate, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Jing Zhao, Gender and Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fandom as a Middle Ground: Fictive Queer Fantasies and Real-World Slash Lesbianism in Fei Se Chao Nv (FSCN)
Greg Burris, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Nothing to Lose but Bobby Seale’s Chains: Punishment Park, Vladimir et Rosa, and the Real-ization of Resistance
Samantha Chang, History of Art and Architecture, University of California Santa Barbara
Graffiti in Motion: Trespassing New York’s Subways
Amanda Cachia, Visual Arts, University of California San Diego
Cannibalizing Sound: Deaf Performance as a Site of Trespass