[NetBehaviour] CONF: Poetics of the Algorithm, 16-18 June 2016, University of Liège (ULg), Belgium

[dave miller]

This sounds really great.  Wish I could afford to go!
On 29 May 2016 12:48, "marc garrett" <marc.garrett2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> CONF: Poetics of the Algorithm, 16-18 June 2016, University of Liège
> (ULg), Belgium
>
> POETICS OF THE ALGORITHM: NARRATIVE, THE DIGITAL AND 'UNIDENTIFIED' MEDIA,
> 16-18 June 2016 / University of Liège (ULg), Salle des Professeurs, Place
> du XX Août, 4000 Liege, Belgium
>
> Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media
> is an international and bilingual (English and French) conference organized
> by the ACME Research Group and hosted by the University of Liège (Belgium),
> from June 16 to June 18, 2016. It focuses on interactive fiction, apps,
> digital comics, games, e-literature and other emerging, ‘new’ media. The
> conference will host workshops, roundtable discussions, panels, and
> presentations of papers.
>
> The conference does not require advance registration (except the
> WREKshop). It is a free event and completely open to the public. All
> practical information is available on the website:
> https://poeticsofthealgorithm.wordpress.com/  Facebook:
> https://www.facebook.com/events/1541606192815768/
>
> PROGRAMME:
>
> WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE
>
> Conference opening event
> - 9.00 - 17.00: WREKshop lead by Olivier Deprez & Miles O’Shea, Académie
> des Beaux-Arts de Liège: “Cinématogravure” workshop.
> - 20.00: WREKshop Projection by Olivier Deprez & Miles O’Shea, Salle
> Lumière, Université de Liège: Projection of the results from the workshop;
> projection of film "Après la mort, après la vie."
>
>
> THURSDAY 16 JUNE
>
> - 8.30 - 9.00: Welcome and registration
> - 9.00 - 9.30: Introduction  Aarnoud Rommens, Björn-Olav Dozo & Benoît
> Crucifix
>
> 9.30 - 11.30: Panel: "Thinking about Digital Comics through Practice"
> - Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), “The Users of Comics as
> Scholarship”
> - Anthony Rageul (Université Rennes 2, artist), “De la jubilation de
> concevoir des ‘récits-interfaces’”
> - Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (University of Hertfordshire), “Choose the Format
> of the Destructor: Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital
> Media”
> - Yannis La Macchia (graphic artist), “Narration par fragments”
>
> 11.45 – 12.45: Keynote: Ilan Manouach (artist): “Shapereader: Tactile
> storytelling for the visually impaired”
>
> 14.00 - 15.30: Bande dessinée numérique et esthétique
> - Julien Baudry (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), “Les paradoxes de
> l'innovation esthétique dans la création numérique en bande dessinée”
> - Magali Boudissa (Université Paris 8), “De l’album à l’écran : enjeux
> narratifs et esthétiques de la bande dessinée numérique”
> - Jean-Bernard Cheymol (CMI - Université Paris 3), “La vitesse dans 3" de
> Marc-Antoine Mathieu”
>
> 15.45 - 17.15: "Comics, Technology and 'Here'"
> - Côme Martin (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV), “Contre ou au-delà de
> l’imprimé ? La bande dessinée numérique à la recherche d’un statut
> spécifique”
> - Ernesto Priego (City University of London) and Peter Wilkins (Douglas
> College), “The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid”
> - Aarnoud Rommens (BEIP-Cofund, Université de Liège), “Weird Media”
>
> 18.00 - 19.30: Keynote: Richard McGuire & Stephen Betts: “Digitizing
> 'Here'”
>
>
> FRIDAY 17 JUNE
>
> 9.00 - 9.45: Panel: "Digital Practices"
> - Loraine Furter (Hybrid Publishing Group), “Hidden Histories, Public
> Libraries”
> - Robert Rapoport (Leuphana University), “The Poetics of the AI Video
> Edit: Projection, Synch, Phase”
>
> 9.45 - 11.15: Panel: "Networks/Circulation"
> - Estelle Dalleu (Université de Strasbourg), “D’un algorithme en
> résistance : le GIF. À propos de Zac’s Haunted House et Zac's Control Panel
> de Dennis Cooper”
> - Dinu Gabriel Munteanu (Nottingham Trent University), “Indeterminate
> Media and the Poetics of Loss: Architecture, Colour and Mood on Tumblr
> Microblogs”
> - Vendela Grundell (Stockholm University), “Interfacing Poetics: Glitch
> Art Transforming Spectatorship”
>
> 11.30 - 12.30: Keynote: Johnny Golding (CFAR-Birmingham City University,
> UK): “Exquisite Matter: Sensoria, Entanglement and the Roll of the Code
> (Encountering the Strange Case of 3D Printing)”
>
> 13.30 – 14.15: Panel: "Music and the Digital"
> - Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute & Middlesex University), “Building
> with the unnamable: code, music and operational discourse”
> - Raffaele Pavoni (Università degli Studi di Firenze), “From Music Videos
> to Music Algorithms. The Convergence of Software Houses and Record Labels
> in Chrome Experiments Interactive Music Videos”
>
> 14.30 - 15.30: Keynote: Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London):
> “iMedia: What or Where is the i in iMedia?”
>
> 15.45 - 16.45: Panel: "Rethinking Interfaces"
> - Sylvie Fabre (Université d’Artois), “Du lecteur à l'utilisateur:
> l'expérience de la lecture sur écran, entre raison graphique et raison
> numérique”
> - Dane Watkins (Falmouth University), “Smudging the Interface: How Can the
> Aesthetics of Comics Enhance the Usability of User Interfaces?”
>
> 17.00 - 18.00: Gregory Ulmer (University of Florida; via digital
> conferencing): “Electracy: The Digital Apparatus”
>
>
> SATURDAY 18 JUNE
>
> 9.00 - 10.30: Panel: "Mediality in the Digital Age"
> - Simon Grennan (University of Chester) and Ian Hague (London College of
> Communications), “Medium, knowledge, structure: capacities for choice and
> the contradiction of medium-specificity in games and comics”
> - Olivier Crépin (Université Paris 8), “Walking Dead : de l'adaptation à
> la transmédialité, transformations du rythme du récit et implications”
> - Gert Meesters (Université de Lille), “Bob and Bobette and Digital
> Enthusiasm. How a Big Comics Publisher in Flanders Put a Lot of Effort into
> Discrediting His Own Books”
>
> 10.45 - 11.00: Liège Gamelab presentation
>
> 11.00 - 12.00: Keynote: Markku Eskelinen (independent researcher):
> “Cybertextuality in 3D: a historical-theoretical-practical framework for
> re-reading literature”
>
> 13h30 - 14h45: Panel: "Game Design and Narratology"
> - Victor Cayres, Lynn Alves, Cristhyane Ribeiro (State University of
> Bahia), “A game narrative development framework based on dramaturgical
> analysis tools”
> - Mark R. Johnson & Darren J. Reed (University of York), “Towards
> Participatory Game Design”
> - David Myers (Loyola University New Orleans), “Possible stories and
> literal games”
>
> 14.45 - 15.45: Keynote: Gregory Steirer (Dickinson College): “God from the
> Machine: Constructing Authorship in Twenty-First Century Interactive
> Fiction”
>
> 16.00 - 17.00: Panel: "Reprocessing Literature through the Algorithm"
> - Martin Zeilinger (Anglia Ruskin University; via digital conferencing),
> “Machine-Readable Beckett: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Reading and
> Performing Quad as Algorithmic Theatre”
> - Philipp Sack (Braunschweig University of Art), “Commodity and thought
> forms. On ‘Poetry for Robots’”
>
> 17.00 - 18.00: Panel: "Oulipo and Digital Avant-Gardes"
> - Natalie Berkman (Princeton University), “L’Oulipo numérique”
> - Catherine Lenoble and An Mertens (Algolit), “Exercices de style with
> algorithms #Digital avant-gardes”
>
> 18.00 - 18.20: Concluding Remarks Aarnoud Rommens, Björn-Olav Dozo &
> Benoît Crucifix
>
>
> Organizing Committee:
> - Aarnoud Rommens. BeIPD-COFUND Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Liège
> (ULg), Belgium.
> - Benoît Crucifix. F.R.S-FNRS Doctoral Fellow, University of Liège (ULg)
> and University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
> - Björn-Olav Dozo. Associate Professor, University of Liège (ULg), Belgium.
>
> Scientific Committee:
> - Jan Baetens. Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium.
> - Benoît Crucifix. F.R.S-FNRS Doctoral Fellow, University of Liège (ULg)
> and University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
> - Björn-Olav Dozo. Associate Professor, University of Liège (ULg), Belgium.
> - Gert Meesters. Professor, University Lille 3, France.
> - Fabrice Préyat. Professor, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.
> - Aarnoud Rommens. BeIPD-COFUND Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Liège
> (ULg), Belgium.
> - Giovanna di Rosario. Associate professor, University of Louvain (UCL),
> Belgium.
>
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