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 Culture
Nick 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 Culture
Nick 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