Thursday September 19th @the Michigan Theater

5:10pm

Symposium Keynote

Vinay Gupta

Friday September 20th @ The Michigan League

12pm - 6pm

Popup/ Drop-in Sessions

Badge CultureNick Bontrager & Taylor Hokanson Postcards from the Peripheral: From Apathy to Empathy Jjenna Hupp Andrews

9am - 10:30am

Participatory Artist Led Walks

The National Bird Performance Workshop Arturo Herrera Thinking Like a Mushroom Cesar & Lois EMF and the Everyday Lyn Goeringer Art Walk Rachel Clarke

10:45am - 12:15pm

Plenary Session: The Future of Creativity

Moderated by Jane Prophet The Future of Creativity Mark D’Inverno Humanitarian Crises Through the Lens of Immersive Media Mona Kasra Building a Creative Computational Pedagogy from Bauhausian Foundations Pamela L. Jennings

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

Gallery Tour (Led by Carrie Ida Edinger, Exhibition Committee/ Juror)

1:15pm - 2:45pm

PANEL SESSIONS

Interface as Border/Interface as Control

Moderator/Chair: Liat Berdugo Panelists: Zachary Kaiser, James Pierce, Masha Vlasova, Lauren McCarthy, YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji and Graham Harwood)

ARTIST RESEARCH/ CREATIVE METHODOLOGIES

A. P. Vague, “The Practice of Art at a Distance” C. Matthew Luther, “Everyday Compression” Farnoosh Farmer, ”Oilscapes: Typologies of a linear condition”

ARTISTS TALKS I

Moderator: Colleen Ludwig Erik DeLuca, “The Poet Singers” Aroussiak Gabrielian, “Posthuman Habitats” Byron Rich, “Microbiome Ark - Tactical Media Ecology” Colleen Ludwig, “BIOMASSACRE”

3:00pm - 4:30pm

PANEL SESSIONS

PRECARIOUS NETWORKS AT AND BEYOND THE BORDER: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND LIFE-CYCLES OF DISPOSABILITY

Moderator/Chair: Johanna Gosse Panelists: Precarity Lab (Lisa Nakamura, Iván Chaar López, Anna Watkins Fisher, Meryem Kamil, Cindy Lin, Silvia Lindtner)

ARTIST TALKS II

Moderator/Chair: TBD Yaminay Chaudhri, “aspiration and the image/ imaginary” Christopher Olszewski, “Factory Life - Three Sisters Project” Anna Lehner, “Brittle Boundaries” Lee Deigaard, "Moons Revolve, Moons Adore

BORDER CROSSINGS BETWEEN HUMAN, ANIMAL, & TECHNOLOGY

Moderator/Chair: TBD Cesar & Lois, “Crossing Knowledge Systems: microbiological x human x artificial intelligences” Ila Nicole Sheren, “Human, Nonhuman, Both or Neither? Bear 71 as Border Crosser”

DATA AND SURVEILLANCE

Moderator/Chair: TBD Joshua Clayton, “Metadata and the Contours of Knowing” Maciej Ozog, “Hacking a biometric (su)object: new media art as a critical analysis of biopower in the age of digital biometric surveillance” Hillary Mushkin, “Linewatching”

PEDAGOGY

Moderator/Chair: TBD Eden Unluata-Foley, “Is Language A Tool for Border Control in College Foundations for New Media?” KT Duffy & Alejandro Acierto, “Feminism as Techno-Collaborative Problem Solving” Victoria Bradbury, “Border Maps and Climate: Teaching Storymapping, Leaflet JS and Professional Practice Skills to Advanced Undergraduates”

4:45pm - 6:15pm

PANEL SESSIONS

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

Moderator/Chair: TBD Billy Friebele, “Fluid Borders: Multidisciplinary strategies for understanding and combating environmental degradation on the Danube River” Chris Willey, “Cultivating Emergent Behaviors: a Tiltbrush VR lecture on education, creativity, and technology” Allison Berkoy, "ARE YOU PREPARED?"

CO-CREATING THE BORDER

Moderator/Chair: TBD Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, “Social Spaces in the unfoldings of the imaginary” (tentative title) Maria del Carmen Montoya, “Ghana ThinkTank at the Mexican Border” Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, “Virtual Borders: Visualizing Internet Censorship”

Games

Moderator/Chair: TBD Victoria Szabo and Joyce Rudinsky, “The Artists’ Games of Psychasthenia Studio” Jenna Altomonte, “Border Crossing in 8-Bit” Mike Richison, “Paperless Voting Machines: Georgia, New Jersey, and Beyond” Greg Garvey, “Building (un)Build The Wall”

Saturday September 21st @ The Art & Architecture Building

ongoing

Popup/ Drop-in Sessions

Badge CultureNick Bontrager & Taylor Hokanson Postcards from the Peripheral: From Apathy to Empathy Jjenna Hupp Andrews FIREWALL Joyce Yu-Jean Lee

9am - 10:30am

PANEL SESSIONS

HUMANS ARE UNDERRATED: LABOR AFTER THE INTERNET

Moderator/Chair: Johanna Gosse Panelists: Tung-Hui Hu, James Coupe, Kris Paulsen, Elisa Giardina

CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHIES

zoe cinel, “Virtual Realities: reclaiming VR and 3D mapping as a storytelling tool to build a sense of belonging among immigrant communities” Bryan Robertson, ”Superpower” Joel Ong, “Cities on the Wind: Inter-textual imaginations of Atmospheric Living”

10:45am - 12:15pm

PANEL SESSIONS

NEW VISIONS

Moderator/Chair: TBD Scott Hessels, “Sustainable Cinema: Nature and the Moving Image” Ian Winters and Evelyn Ficarra, “Contesting the border of temporality and placemaking in audiovisual time-lapse performance” Michael Borowski, “Aesthetics and “Vision” of Autonomous Vehicles” - new image-making techniques

ACCESSIBILITY & TECHNOLOGY

Moderator/Chair: TBD Ashley Pigford, “Breaking Boundaries with Assistive Technologies” Rebecca Mushtare, “Accessibility: Dismantling Digital Borders” Hye Yeon Nam, “Robots Bridging Borders”

ARTIST TALKS III

Moderator/Chair: TBD Farhad Bahram, “The Impotent Medium” Zach Duer, “Body, Full of Time” Safiyah Cheatam, “Instances of Behavioral Dissonance” Megan Young, Title TBD: “Questions of Safety Answered by Children of Color”

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

Media - N Meetup

1:15pm - 2:00pm

GALLERY EVENT

Curator’s Tour with Exhibition Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

1:15pm - 2:45pm

PANEL SESSIONS

CONTROL/ HISTORY/ VISIBILITY

Moderator/Chair: TBD Carrie Hott, "Smarter Light" Constanza Salazar, “Resisting Capture: (In)visible Borders, Art and the Possibility of Becoming Imperceptible” Heather Snyder-Quinn, “Transparency: Past, Present, Future”

DISPLAYS OF DISSENT

Moderator/Chair: TBD Katya Grokhovsky, “The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB)” Srimoyee Mitra, TBD melanie manos, “Contesting the Limitations of Historical Representation Using Augmented Reality, Spin-Ins and Monuments Bingo”

ARTIST TALKS IV

Moderator/Chair: TBD Paul Echeverria, “Holding Atticus: Performance, social media, and the emergence of pre-birth identity” Nathan Halverson, “Border Resolution” Young Suk Lee, "Exploring Interactive Tactile Digital Media" Susan Rochester, Remendando la Frontera/ Mending the Border

3:00pm - 4:30pm

PANEL SESSIONS

PITCH SESSION

Rebekah Modrak

ARTIST SURVEYS (WORKING TITLE)

Moderator/Chair: TBD Irfan Hošić, “Border as metaphor: Case study Bosnia-Herzegovina” Patrick Lichty, “Lateral Strategies” Cyberspace, Infopower, and Transgression of the Boundary” Catherine Bernard, “Transborder Spaces: Films and video from the Maghreb region”

IMAGES OF MEXICO

Moderator/Chair: TBD John-Michael H. Warner, “La Frontera: In Between Arizona, USA and Sonora, MEX” Jonathan Taube, Assoc. AIA, “The Wider Border” Liz Trapp, “Cyprien Gaillard: The Old / The New and the Temporality of History”

POLICY & PARADIGM

IN/TERMINUS (Michael Darroch, Lee Rodney and Karen Engle), “Border as Metaphor” Margot Herster, “Archiving Guantánamo: Privacy, Security and Consent to Publicity” Matt Kenyon, "The Ethics of Accumulation and Waste"

3:00pm - 6:15pm

EXTENDED SESSION There will be a 15-minute break from 4:30 - 4:45

WOKE NEW MEDIA - BORDERS AND BODIES New Media Caucus Diversity Panel Sponsored by UMICH Stamps School of Art and Design

Moderator/Chair: TBD

4:45pm - 6:15pm

PANEL SESSIONS

MIND THE LOCATION: INTERDISCIPLINARY ART COLLABORATIONS THROUGH INTERSECTIONAL LENS IN THE US, ASIA, AND EUROPE Panelists: Maurice Jones, Irina Aristarkhova, Osman Khan

Moderator/Chair: Natalia Fuchs Panelists: Maurice Jones, Irina Aristarkhova, Osman Khan

REDEFINING BOUNDARIES

Moderator/Chair: TBD Elizabeth Shores, “Looking In from Outer Space: The Karman Line as a Metaphor of Possibility for Practitioners and Viewers of Art and Design” Nicole Clouston, "Borders Unbound: Microbial Life and Lake Ontario" Chelsea Thompto, “Productive Bodies”

EVOLUTION & TECHNOLOGY

Moderator/Chair: TBD Roberta Buiani, “A co-production of people and things: the body beyond the extension of man” Su Hyun Nam, “The affective relationship of the human and technology; after the cognitive coevolution” Ellen Pearlman, “AIBO - An Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligent Brain Computer Opera Rapid Prototype”

Sunday September 22nd @ The Art & Architecture Building

ongoing

Popup/ Drop-in Sessions

Nick Bontrager & Taylor Hokanson, “Badge Culture” Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FIREWALL Jjenna Hupp Andrews, “Postcards from the Peripheral: From Apathy to Empathy”

9:00am - 10:30am

PANEL SESSIONS

CODES OF AFFECT

Moderator/Chair: TBA Shawn Lawson, “Cibo: A Machine Learning, Autonomous Live-Coding Performer” - live performance/ coding; philosophy of machine learning & musical performance" (Co-author: Jeremy Stewart) Pamela L Jennings, “Speaks Volumes” Katina Bitsicas, “Projected AR as Exposure Technique for Trauma”

WATERWAYS, ROADS & BRIDGES: INFRASTRUCTURE AND BORDER CROSSINGS

Daniel Feinberg, “Pavement and Omnidirectional Border Lines” Jordan Geiger, "Niagora" Sydney Hart, “Visualizing Transnational Mobility along the St Lawrence River and Great Lakes”

10:45pm - 12:15pm

PANEL SESSIONS

ARTIST TALKS VI

Moderator/Chair: TBA Kiley Brandt, “Claiming the In-Between: Diasporan Identity, Adoption and White Race Melancholia” Angela Ferraiolo, “Recombinant Narrative in ‘Maps of a Future War - Map No. 3: Flight’ “ Annabel Castro, “Outside in: exile at home. An ontological view of digital proprioception” Conor Elliott Fitzgerald, “Pisar Pasos”

DIGITAL DETROIT located in the galley

Moderator/Chair: Jennifer Junkemeier-Khan Panelists: Ben Corona, Alex B. Hill, Emily Kutil, Ingrid LaFleur, Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty

10:45pm - 12:15pm

WORKSHOP

Touch Designer Workshop

led by Paul Catanese