Friday, October 12th
Registration/Breakfast
9.00-10.00
Crosby Room, Northrop
Session 1
10.00-11.30
Keynote 1:
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
(Michigan State University)
“Sustainability and Solidarity”
Respondent: Jani Scandura (UMN)
Crosby Room, Northrop
Break
11.30-12.00
Session 2
12.00-13.30
Panel A: Stories of Trash
Crosby Room, Northrop
Chair: Emily Fedoruk (CSCL)
Amy Folkedahl Meehleder (UMN): Mapping the “Trash-scape”: Waste and the Grid in Three Works by Rashid Rana, Anjum Singh, and Vivan Sundaram
Rieke Jordan (University of Frankfurt, GER): Moby-Dick; or, The Waste.
Curt Lund (Hamline University, St. Paul): Rubbish, Classics, and the Things In Between: Shifting Values of the Everyday Objects that Surround Us
Panel B: Digital Culture and Science Fictions
135 Nicholson Hall
Chair: Kathryn Huether (MSS)
Andrew Bailey (York University, CAN): Not Enough Memory: Examining History and Obsolescence in Contemporary Game Art
Jennifer Jodell (UMN): Naked Before the New: Celebrities as Mediating Bodies in Mid-Century Written Science Fiction
Sam McCracken (University of Georgia): “Critical Mass as Obsolescence: Internet Memes and the Ephemerality of Digital Culture”
Lunch Break
13.30-15.00
Session 3
15.00-16.00
Panel C: (Un)dead Media
135 Nicholson Hall
Chair: Nanette Hanks (CLA)
Saul Kutnicki (Indiana University, Bloomington): Putting “the Rest” to Rest: Visual Culture and the Last Days of Kodak
Dzmitry Tsapkou (UMN): Sorcery against Capitalism
Panel D: Accelerated Infrastructures
201 Nicholson Hall
Chair: Mikkel Vad (CSCL)
Anthony Kahane (UMN): Communism, Meltdowns, and Morlocks: Wealth Addiction in the Transition to a Post-Labor Society
Thomas Lawson (University of Pittsburgh): Picking Up Good Citations: Networked Criticism in the Age of the Database
Break
16.00-16.30
Session 4
16.30-18.30
Film Screenings
135 Nicholson Hall
Chair: Graeme Stout (MIMS)
Matt Whitman (The New School, NYC): Mourning Material: A Contemporary Case for Film
Nickk Hertzog (Melbourne, AUS): Vaporwave: Nostalgia, Irony and Empowered Obsolescence
Sam Hoolihan (UMN): Meditation, Chance, and Embracing Technological Limitations
Reception
18:30-20:00
135 Nicholson Hall
Saturday, October 13th
Breakfast
9.00-10.00
Crosby Room, Northrop
Session 5
10.00-11.00
Panel E: Redesigning the Obsolete
Crosby Room, Northrop
Chair: Soyi Kim (CSCL)
Arnon Ben-Dror (University of Amsterdam): Cultivating the Past: Jeremy Deller’s Anachronistic Garden
Austin Young and Drew Smith (UMN): Towards a Meta-Studio
Break
11.00-11.30
Session 6
11.30-13.00
Panel F: Wasted Architectures
Crosby Room, Northrop
Chair: Harshit Rathi (CSCL)
John P. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh): The City With No Future: Urban Freeways, Racial Politics, and the Cinema of the Obsolete City
Mary Begley (UMN), Patrick Larkin, and Meg Lundquist (UMN): Put a Tunnel Through K-Mart: Revisioning the Obsolete
Sarah Wheat (University of Michigan): The Architectural Document: The Hudson Motor Car Company Factory Portfolio and the Albert Kahn Associates Archive
Panel G: Functions of Film
135 Nicholson Hall
Chair: Vanessa Cambier (CSCL)
Jeremy Meckler (UMN): What is Cinema in the Age of Convergence? Locating the Post-Cinematic in the Twitter Controversy Surrounding Twin Peaks: The Return
Jonah Jeng (University of Pittsburgh): Action Reaction: Michael Bay’s 13 Hours and the Nostalgia for Embodied Warfare
Yandong Li (The New School, NYC): The Power Resistance Nature in Jem Cohen’s Films: Interpreting the Fading Identity of New York Through Cinema
Break/travel to Trylon Cinema
13.00-14.30
Session 7:
14.30-18.00
Screening and Keynote 2:
Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch, 2013
Free ticket reservations: Trylon Cinema
