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PERFORMANCE: READING, WRITING AND TECHNOLOGY
Hosted by: Performance Studies
Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12pm to 6pm
TechnoCultural Studies Main Room
DESCRIPTION AND CALL FOR INSTALLATIONS
This conference/installation event is FREE, courtesy of the Departments of Theatre and Dance, Technocultural Studies and Cultural Studies
Electronic media is rapidly changing the relationship of artists, scholars and producers to audiences, readers and writers. As part of a year long series on electronic media and writing being held UC campus wide, this day long event will be an exploration of how new media are affecting the interaction between producers and audiences. Featuring Keynote Speaker Adriene Jenick, creator of SPECFLIC, Desktop Theatre and Mauve Desert ; and speakers Praba Pilar, minister of the Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno ; video artist Jesus Aguilar, and multi-media artist Rene Garcia, creator of Requiem for the Book , the event will also include multi-media installations.
* If you would like to propose an installation, please submit a proposal to Lynette Hunter (lhunter@ucdavis.edu) for inclusion in the program.
PRE CONFERENCE AGENDA:
12pm TechnoCultural Studies Main Room opens to public for viewing of installations
2:30pm Presentation by Praba Pilar
2:50pm Presentation by Jesus Aguilar
3:10pm Presentation by Rene Garcia
3:30pm Discussion and feedback
3:50pm 20 minute break
4.10pm Keynote talk by Adriene Jenik
4:50pm Discussion and feedback
5.10pm Panel of participants and discussion + Refreshments
ARTIST BIOS
Adriene Jenick is a telecommunications media artist. Her work, including Mauve Desert: a CD-ROM Translation, El Naftazteca (with Guillermo Gomez Pena) and Desktop Theater uses the collision of "high" technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and performance. She is currently serving as Associate Professor of Computer & Media Arts in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. Her recent projects and research (encompassing Activecampus and SPECFLIC ) instigate large-scale public art events over community-wide wireless networks
Praba Pilar is a performance artist, technologist, and cultural theorist who explores the intersections of emerging technologies, economics, and the environment through performances, installations, street theater, writing, and websites. Her collaborative and solo works have been featured at museums, galleries, universities and streets around the world. Pilar is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis.
Video artist Jesus Aguilar explores the intersection between language and technology. Drawing his inspiration simultaneously from video artist pioneers of the 1970s and the Internet, Aguilar is developing an artistic process that examines communication in the 21st century.
René Garcia uses elements of conceptual art practices constructed around performance, video, audio and installation art. He creates digitally enhanced and electronically mediated works to explore significant current political themes and the uncovering of an evolving convergence between the human body and new technologies.
RELATED CONFERENCES
• The Future of Writing Conference will be held at UC Irvine on November 6th and 7th, 2008. For more information, contact Prof. Jonathan Alexander at jfalexan@uci.edu
• The online portion of Computers and Writing 2009: Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing @ School @ Work @ Play will be held online Feb. 16 - Mar. 2, 2009. See http://writing.ucdavis.edu/cw2009 for more details.
• The onsite portion of Computers and Writing 2009: Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing @ School @ Work @ Play will be held at UC Davis June 18-21, 2009. See http://writing.ucdavis.edu/cw2009 for more details.
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