The Archaeology of Multi-Media
A Conference at Brown University (Providence RI, U.S.A.)
Thursday-Saturday, November 2-4, 2000 http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm
For two-and-a-half days, participants in the conference will engage
and interrogate rhetoric about electronic media that describes them as
fundamentally new, irrevocably transformative and virtually unstoppable.
Refusing to rely on descriptions such as "new" and
"digital" (for what medium has not at one time been new, or is
not now produced digitally?), the conference will highlight mixed-media
art and scholarship. It will seek some alternative interpretations and
understandings of the singularity of electronic content, context, form,
and audience, as well as another map of the ways in which media have
always been multiple. Archaeology of Multi-Media seeks to integrate
historical scholarship and emerging modes of media theory, and to link
the study of multimedia with existing work on 'traditional' media, as it
opens some emergent spaces of mixture and multiplicity in present
research and action.
Conference
Schedule
Thursday 11.02.00
Starr Auditorium, Macmillan Hall
8-9:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks: Michael Silverman, MCM chair
10-11:30 a.m. Comparison: Cinema/Digital Media Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Thomas Levin, Princeton Michael Silverman, Brown (panel chair)
11:30-1p.m. Comparison: Print/Digital Media Wolfgang Ernst, University of Bochum,
Germany Julia Flanders, STG Brown Perry Curtis, Brown (panel chair)
1-2 p.m. Lunch break
2-3:30 p.m. Comparison: Conflict Media Thomas Keenan, Bard James DerDerian, Brown Mary Ann Doane, Brown (panel chair)
3:30-5 p.m. Comparison: Modes of Identification Ken Hillis, University of North Carolina Lisa Nakamura, Sonoma State University Ellen Rooney, Brown (panel chair)
5-6:00 p.m. Student Video Show
Saturday 11.04.00
Starr Auditorium, Macmillan Hall
9-9:30 a.m. Coffee and Refreshments
9:30-11 a.m. Comparison: Television/Video/Digital Media Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Richard Dienst, Rutgers University Tony Cokes, Brown (panel chair)
11-12:30 p.m. Comparison: Photography/Digital Media Geoffrey Batchen, University of New Mexico Nick Mirzoeff, SUNY Stony Brook Roger Mayer, Brown (panel chair)
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30-3 p.m. Comparison: Social Movements Geert Lovink, Nettime, Netherlands Renata Salecl, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Elizabeth Weed, Brown (panel chair)
3-3:15 Coffee and Refreshments
3:15-4:45 p.m. Comparison: Language/Systems Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego Cornelia Vismann, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt
(Oder) Len Tennenhouse, Brown (panel chair)
5-6:00 p.m. Concluding Roundtable: Nancy Armstrong, Brown Lynne Joyrich, Brown Philip Rosen, Brown Robert Scholes, Brown Wendy Chun, Brown (panel chair)
10 p.m. MCM DUG Fundraising Party, Piano Lounge, Graduate Center
This conference, supported by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research
in Culture and Media Studies, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and
Research on Women, the Scholarly Technology Group and the Multi-Media
Lab, and organized by the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown
University, is free and open to the public but registration is required.
Please register either on the web or by emailing amm@brown.edu. For
more information, please visit the website at
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm.