[spectre] Violence, Technology and Public Intervention, UCDArNet Panel

[dj lotu5]

*Violence, Technology and Public Intervention

Date: *April 24th, 2009
*Time: *Noon - 5:00pm
*Location: *Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
[webcast <http://calit2.net/webcast>: http://calit2.net/webcast]
*Host: *gallery at calit2 and UCDARnet


*Guest Speaker:* Carlos Trilnick (Keynote) et al.
Full speaker list and agenda below

*DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT:*

This symposium is in conjunction withi Carlos Trilnick's Anti-Personnel 
Mines Project, an interactive installation in the gallery @ calit2. Free 
and open to the public, and a reception will follow the panels. 
Sponsored by UCDARnet and gallery @ calit2.

Abstract: Presentations will address the current and historical 
relationship between technology and violence, state and 
corporate-sanctioned as well as forms embodied in practices of 
resistance. The symposium will consider how the scale and far-reaching 
impact of violence and multiplication of modalities that it takes 
relates to global, regional and local contexts. Artists and
theorists will navigate the tactics, strategies and disturbances that 
technology amplifies and distributes under the signs of the 
post-contemporary.

Since our first encounters with analytic machines, technologically 
enabled violence has flickered between utopia and apocalypse, between 
labor saving and loss of jobs, between the ordinary and all too new, 
between bad machines and good machines. States of command and control 
violence and new forms of public interventions continually emerge from 
the machine smashing
Luddites of 1811 to Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace’s code 
for the “difference engine” in the mid-800's, to the exponential growth 
of military driven R & D throughout the 20th and 21st century.

*AGENDA*

Noon –Introduction - Brian Goldfarb

12:10 - Carlos Trilnick - Keynote

12:30 – *Panel One: Public Intervention as Art*

    *
      Sharon Daniel - Public Secrets Project
    *
      Warren Sack - Conversation Map v.2.0 Project
    *
      Micha Cárdenas – Transborder Immigrant Tool
    *
      Respondent - Brian Goldfarb

2:30 Coffee Break

3:00 – *Panel Two: The Art of Public Intervention*

    *
      Rita Raley – Tactical Optics
    *
      Amy Sara Carroll - Forensic Prescience, Domestic Violence,
      "Death and the Idea of Mexico": Teresa Margolles' Operativo
    *
      Jordan Crandall - Art as Destabilization, Elemental and Ineludible
    *
      Respondent - Patrick Anderson

Reception: 5:00pm

Sponsored by UCDARnet and gallery @ calit2.


*SPEAKER BIO:*

Speakers include:

*Micha Cárdenas* / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, 
theorist and troublemaker. Micha is an MFA candidate at the University 
of California San Diego who will be graduating in the summer of 2009. 
Micha holds a Master's degree in Media and Communications with 
distinction from the European Graduate School <http://egs.edu/> and a 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Florida International 
University. She is a researcher at the Experimental Game Lab 
<http://www.experimentalgamelab.net/> at CRCA <http://crca.ucsd.edu/> 
and at CalIT2 <http://calit2.net/>. Her interests include the interplay 
of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at 
TechnoTrannySlut.com <http://technotrannyslut.com/>. Micha is a founding 
member of a number of art/activism collectives including Sharing Is Sexy 
<http://sharingissexy.org/>, the borderlands Hacklab 
<http://sdhacklab.org/> and the City Heights Free Skool 
<http://cityheightsfreeskool.org/>. Micha recently joined the Lui 
Velazquez <http://luivelazquez.com/> space in Tijuana as a curator and 
collective member. In addition, Micha was the recipient of a 2008 Open 
Classroom Challenge Grant from UCIRA 
<http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/projects_artists.html> and taught a class 
entitled "Collective Art Practice, Performative and Networked Approaches 
to Challenging Power". She has been a guest lecturer at Calarts in Los 
Angeles and at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and presented a 
paper on the project Becoming Dragon <http://secondloop.wordpress.com/> 
at the Society of Photonic Imaging Engineers "Electronic Imaging" 
<http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm?fuseaction=conferencedetail&export_id=x16280&ID=x16223&redir=x16223.xml&conference_id=863831&event_id=862795&programtrack_id=862796> 
Conference in 2009. Micha has collaborated with faculty members Ricardo 
Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum on the Transborder Immigrant Tool 
<http://bang.calit2.net/dr.-cardenas-s-blog/artivists-and-mobile-phones-the-transborder-immigrant-project-2.html> 
and the B.A.N.G. lab <http://bang.calit2.net/>, and Adriene Jenik on 
specFlic 1.0 <http://specflic.net/>.

*Amy Sara Carroll*, assistant professor of Latina/o Studies (jointly 
appointed in English and American Culture, affiliate of the Center for 
World Performance Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies) at 
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received a Ph.D. in Literature 
from Duke University (2004), an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from 
Cornell University, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of 
Chicago . Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latin/o 
American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and 
literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, cultural studies, 
inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. 
Her critical essays and poetry has appeared in various journals and 
anthologies. She is a member of the *particle group* (pitmm.net) and the 
Transborder Immigrant Tool research group.

*Jordan Crandall* (http://jordancrandall.com 
<http://jordancrandall.com/>) is a media artist and theorist. He is 
Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of 
California, San Diego. His ongoing art and research project Under Fire, 
concerning the organization and representation of political violence, 
opened in October 2006 at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art 
of Seville . To date, two catalogues of Under Fire have been produced, 
in 2004 and 2005, published by the Witte de With center for contemporary 
art, Rotterdam . The third volume will be produced by the Seville 
Biennial in early 2007. Crandall has written on technology and culture 
for magazines such as Artforum, Parachute, Framework, Cultural Politics, 
Journal of Visual Culture, and TRANS (arts.cultures.media). Crandall’s 
other books include Trigger Projekt (Frankfurt: Revolver, 2002); 
Heatseeking (Caen: Esac, 2002); Suspension (Kassel: Documenta X, 1997); 
and Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network (New York: D.A.P., 2001).

*Sharon Daniel* is an artist whose research involves the use and 
development of information and communications technologies for social 
inclusion. Daniel engages in the production of “new media 
documentaries”—building online archives and interfaces that make the 
stories of technologically disenfranchised communities available across 
social, cultural, and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been 
exhibited internationally at museums and festivals including 
Transmediale 08, 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, such as 
Database Aesthetics (Minnesota University Press, 2007), the Sarai 
Reader, and Leonardo. Daniel is a Professor of Film and Digital Media 
and Chair of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the 
University of California , Santa Cruz , where she teaches classes in 
digital media theory and practice.

*Warren Sack* is a software designer and media theorist whose work 
explores theories and designs for online public space and public 
discussion. He is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the 
University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned a B.A. from Yale 
College and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. Warren's 
writings on new media and computer science have been published widely 
and his art work has been shown at the ZKM|Center for Art and Media, 
Karlsruhe , Germany ; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the 
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the artport website of the Whitney 
Museum of American Art . His Conversation Map is currently included in 
the SFMOMA exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now (November 8, 
2008, through February 8, 2009).

*Rita Raley* is Associate Professor English Department UC Santa Barbara. 
She researches and teaches in the areas of new media (art, literature, 
theory) and 20-21C literature in an “international” or “global” context. 
Her book, Tactical Media, a study of new media art in relation to 
neoliberal globalization, is forthcoming from the University of 
Minnesota Press in its “Electronic Mediations” series. At present she is 
working on a series of articles on the topics of locative narrative, 
mobile media poetics, and ALife art. She also continues work on Global 
English and the Academy, excerpts of which have been published in The 
Yale Journal of Criticism and Diaspora. Another book project, Reading 
Code, is underway, an excerpt of which has been published under the 
title, "Code.surface || Code.depth". In the English department at UCSB, 
she is director of the Literature.Culture.Media center (formerly 
Transcriptions), co-director of the Literature and Culture of 
Information specialization and currently leading a working group on “New 
Reading Interfaces” for Transliteracies. She has taught at the 
University of Minnesota and at Rice University, where she was the 
Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Assistant Professor of English. In Spring 
2009 she will be in residence at the UCHRI.

*Carlos Trilnick* has been one of the pioneers of video art in Latin 
America since 1980, and his works - ranging from video installations and 
multimedia art to photography and online projects - have been exhibited 
extensively in Europe, Latin America and the U.S. , including the Museum 
of Modern Art in New York . He is a senior professor in the Faculty of 
Architecture, Design and Urban Development at the University of Buenos 
Aires. In addition to UC San Diego, Trilnick is also a Visiting 
Professor at universities in Colombia and Ecuador . Trilnick co-directs 
the Media Laboratory at the Talpiot Institute of Buenos Aires (a primary 
and secondary school), and coordinates the audio-visual media program 
"Vale la Pena," which curates programs of a broad range of contemporary 
work that engages social issues across the arts.

*MORE INFORMATION:*

For Directions and information: _http://gallery.calit2.net_ 
<http://gallery.calit2.net/>
UCDARnet: _http://ucdarnet.org/_
Reception will follow the panels at 5pm.