Afternoon Demonstration Sessions
Sharon Daniel
Sharon Daniel is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media and Chair of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research involves collaborations with communities that focus on the use and development of information and communications technologies for social inclusion. Her role as an artist is that of “context provider,” – working with communities, collecting their stories, soliciting their opinions, and building online archives to make this data available across social, cultural and economic boundaries.
Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally at museums and festivals including the ISEA/ZeroOne festival, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Corcoran Biennial and the University of Paris I, as well as on the Internet. Her essays have been published in books and professional journals including Database Aesthetics (recently published by Minnesota Universtiy Press) the Sarai Reader and Leonardo. She has presented work at a variety of international venues including the Fundacion Telefonica in Buenos Aires, the conference “contested commons” in New Delhi, India and in the US.
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Frances Dyson
Frances Dyson (Ph.D), is an Associate Professor in Technocultural Studies, University of California, Davis, where she teaches film, new media, audio art and technocultural theory and has a research focus on sound and new media. A researcher in residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal her web based project “And then it was Now” was recently published (http://www.fondation-langlois.org). Other recent writing can be found in Kroker/Kroker (eds.) The Critical Digital Studies Reader (UoTP, forthcoming); Convergence: Winter, 2005 (London: Sage), Catherine Richards Excitable Tissues (Ottawa Art Gallery) 2004, (also published on www.catherinerichards.ca/html/essays.htm.) Dyson has exhibited installation/performance works in the US, Canada, Japan and Australia and for over a decade has been a regular contributor to Australia’s premier audio arts program, The Listening Room (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and can be heard on New America Radio archives (www.somewhere.org/NAR/catalog/cataloglists/letters/artists_d-h.htm#dyson). Her book Sounding New Media: Rhetorics of Immersion in the Arts and Culture – is forthcoming with the University of California Press.
Erik Loyer
Erik Loyer has over a decade of accomplishments to his credit as a director, designer and developer of interactive media. An internationally exhibited artist, Loyer is the creator of The Lair of the Marrow Monkey, one of the first websites to be added to the permanent collection of a major art museum, and Chroma, an award-winning web serial about the racial politics of virtual reality. As Creative Director for Vectors, an experimental online academic journal, he has designed numerous academic multimedia projects in collaboration with leading scholars, including Public Secrets, a Webby-honored documentary on the California prison system. Loyer’s commercial portfolio includes Clio and One Show Gold Award-winning work for Vodafone as well as projects for BMW, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Sony. An alumnus of new media pioneers Inscape, The Voyager Company, and Razorfish, Loyer recently taught courses in the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California.
Minoo Moallem
Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, University of California Press, 2005. She is also the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of_ Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State_, Duke University Press, 1999
Caren Kaplan
Caren Kaplan is Chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group and Professor in Women and Gender Studies at UC Davis. She received her PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 1987 and worked at Georgetown University and UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at UC Davis in 2004. She has published work on the cultural history of colonial and post-colonial travel and theories of displacement in the modern world as well as an introductory textbook on feminist transnational cultural studies. Her current research focuses on the visual culture of military technologies of identification, location, and navigation. Thanks to a residential fellowship from USC’s IML and Annenberg School and an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship (2006-07), her most recent scholarship is realized in digital, multimedia as well as conventional formats.
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Jennifer Terry
Since January 2003, Jennifer Terry has been an associate professor of Women’s Studies with formal affiliations in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, the Art, Computation, and Engineering PhD Program, and the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California at Irvine. Her research is concentrated in Feminist Cultural Studies; Science and Technology studies; comparative and historical formations of gender, race, and sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; and American studies in transnational perspective. Professor Terry came to UCI after a decade of academic employment at UC Berkeley and Ohio State University. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 1992.
She is the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 1995) and Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (Routledge, 1997). She has written articles and chapters on reproductive politics, the history of sexual science in the United States, and contemporary scientific approaches to the sex lives of animals.
Terry is now working on a project presently titled Killer Entertainments: Militarism, Governmentality, and Consuming Desires in Transnational America. The project focuses on the history of military morale management in the US during the expansion of the nation into an international empire by theorizing the dynamics of governmentality and sentimentality as they manifest in the mutual provocations between entertainment forms, hygienic technologies, and militarism. The book’s chapters analyze military basic training and its framing of the U.S. nation through a praxis of “unit cohesion”; civilian mobilization for war; surveillance technologies and remote tracking devices; weaponry design and its relationship to medical innovations; psychological operations; USO shows; and simulation experiences. The technosocial processes analyzed share capacities for entertainment, aggression, and desire, and are tied to new forms of commodification and governmentality. A critical analysis of the erotic politics at play in these deployments is central to the project.