[NetBehaviour] b.a.n.g. lab at ASA Elle Mehrmand, Micha Cárdenas and Ricardo Dominguez Presenting at American Studies Association
marc garrett
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Sat Oct 22 12:49:49 CEST 2011
Hi micha,
Thanks for letting us know about the 'American Studies Association
Annual Meeting'.
I would love to be there, but am currently in the UK.
Hopefully, others who live near by can pop along and let us know how it
goes...
wishing you well.
marc
> See you there!
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> http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/
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> Plenary: Reimagining Democracy through Art
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> American Studies Association Annual Meeting
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> Schedule Information:
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> Scheduled Time: Sat, Oct 22 - 6:00pm - 7:45pm Building/Room:
Hilton Baltimore, Holiday Ballroom 4
> Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Plenary: Reimagining Democracy
through Art
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> Session Participants:
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> Chair: Wendy Chun (Brown University (RI))
> Panelist: Ricardo Dominguez (University of California, San Diego
(CA))
> Panelist: Natalie Jeremijenko (New York University (NY))
> Panelist: Chris Csikszentmihályi (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MA))
> Panelist: Kara Keeling (University of Southern California (CA))
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> Abstract:
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> Reimagining Democracy Through Art
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> Queer Viral Aesthetics: Control and Resistance
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> American Studies Association Annual Meeting
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> Scheduled Time: Sat, Oct 22 - 12:00pm - 1:45pm Building/Room:
Hilton Baltimore, Holiday Ballroom 4
> Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Queer Viral Aesthetics:
Control and Resistance
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> Session Participants:
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> Chair: Zachary M. Blas (Duke University (NC))
> Panelist: Micha Cárdenas (University of California, San Diego (CA))
> Panelist: Elle Mehrmand (University of California, San Diego (CA))
> Panelist: Zachary M. Blas (Duke University (NC))
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> Abstract:
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> The intensification and proliferation of global connectivity has
opened digital networked culture to universal contagion. Indeed, it has
been argued we now live in a viral ecology under the sign of viral
capitalism. As viralities spread into various realms of culture, new
media artists explore the viral as that which has the ability to control
and restrict as well as distribute and liberate.
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> While Alex Galloway and Eugene Thacker have argued that we should
not look to viruses for forms of radical politics, our current viral
ecology has opened up new tactics of resistance for various artists,
activists, and cultural producers. In this panel, we will focus on queer
new media art and philosophy that uses and intervenes into the viral to
form a radical politics of revolt and utopia. The viral will be engaged
with technically, philosophically, artistically, biologically, and
affectively. We aim to explore and reconfigure viral discourses that
have marginalized and controlled queer populations by deterritorializing
the viral, unleashing a multiplicity of possibilities for the viral as
an allusive, volatile potential that can be experimented with to create
new queer politics and worlds.
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> Blas, Cárdenas, Mehrmand, and Skanse will give an artistic,
theoretically focused, performative group lecture. They will build from
Cárdenas and Mehrmand’s current collaboration virus.cirus and Blas'
Queer Technologies project. virus.circus is an episodic series of
performances using wearable electronics and live audio to bridge virtual
and physical spaces that explores queer futures of latex sexuality
amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria and DIY medicine. Blas’
ongoing Queer Technologies attempts to formulate a viral aesthetics
based on a replicating difference of never-being-the-sameness against
capital’s own modulating structure.
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> Our performative group lecture will focus on generating a queer
viral aesthetics, locating this between modulations of control and
resistance.
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> Everyday Media and Practices of Popular Power
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> American Studies Association Annual Meeting
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> Scheduled Time: Sun, Oct 23 - 8:00am - 9:45am Building/Room:
Hilton Baltimore, Holiday Ballroom 4
> Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Everyday Media and Practices
of Popular Power
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> Session Participants:
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> Chair: Ricardo Dominguez (University of California, San Diego (CA))
> From Third Cinema to National Video: Visual Technologies and
United Farm Worker World-Building
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> Curtis Marez (University of California, San Diego (CA))
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> "Tu Voz TV": Mexican Migrants, Self-Representation and
Documentary Video
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> Rebecca Schreiber (University of New Mexico (NM))
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> Translocal Media Mobilization in the Asemblea Popular de los
Pueblos de Oaxaca - Los Angeles
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> Sasha Costanza-Chock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA))
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> Comment: Ricardo Dominguez (University of California, San Diego
(CA))
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> Abstract:
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> This panel focuses on the use of media technology by working
class people of color and indigenous groups from the 1970s to the
present. Analyzing a variety of media, panelists consider the
relationships among technology, social movements, and access to
political and social power for poor and marginalized people in contexts
of globalization.
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> Curtis Marez’s paper “From Third Cinema to National Video: Visual
Technologies and United Farm Worker World-Building” analyzes the
contradiction between anti-imperialism and cold war nationalism in the
history of UFW media technology. In particular Marez examines the UFW
documentary film Fighting for Our Lives (FFOL, 1974), which visually
linked the California fields to scenes of imperial violence in Asia,
Latin America, and the U.S. south. He also analyzes the UFW’s pioneering
political use of home video during the 1980s, through which the
organization attempted to build a national audience by framing pesticide
harms in U.S. nationalist terms and by turning César Chavez into a
nationalist icon. Whereas Marez argues that FFOL connected the union to
anti-imperial struggles, he also contends that the UFW’s video projects
in the 1980s implicitly appealed to U.S. nationalism at a moment of
resurgent U.S. imperialism in Latin America.
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> In “’Tu Voz TV’: Mexican Migrants, Self-Representation and
Documentary Video,” Rebecca Schreiber examines the use of the
documentary form in videos produced by young Mexican migrants involved
in Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Program, which were
included in “Tu Voz TV” (Your Voice TV), a series broadcast on local and
national cable stations. Through working within and beyond conventions
of traditional social documentary filmmaking, this group of young
mediamakers constructed videos that intervened in contexts characterized
by unevenly distributed relations of power, where they are positioned as
“illegal” or illegitimate residents. This paper contributes to an
understanding of the choice of documentary modes in the
self-representation of Mexican migrants in the post 9/11 era, and asks
questions about the ways in which media technology matters or can
disrupt certain dominant cultural logics and politics of representation.
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> Sasha Costanza-Chock will present “Translocal Media Mobilization
in the Asemblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca - Los Angeles
(APPO-LA),” which explores social movement media practices in translocal
flows between Oaxaca and Los Angeles, and finds that the repertoire of
digital contention is not limited to online space, but includes the
spreadability of media elements between digital distribution channels as
well as into offline spaces. While digital literacies make possible new
practices of richly mediated translocal mobilization, previous media
practices provide an important foundation. Everyday practices of media
use by Oaxacan migrant indigenous communities served as important
precursors for effective movement use of new digital media during key
moments of mobilization. This case indicates that social movements are
best able to use digital media when the base of the movement formation
is already familiar with the tools and practices of network culture.
Within APPO-LA, everyday practices of video sharing by indigenous
migrant workers laid the groundwork for transmedia mobilization.
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> micha cárdenas
> PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
> Provost Fellow, University of Southern California
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> Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press,
http://is.gd/daO00
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> HASTAC Scholar, http://hastac.org
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> blog: http://transreal.org
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> micha cárdenas
> PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California
> Provost Fellow, University of Southern California
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> Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press,
http://is.gd/daO00
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> HASTAC Scholar, http://hastac.org
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> blog: http://transreal.org
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