CAA 2011 Annual Conference
Wednesday February 9
ARTspace
The Aesthetics of Sonic Spaces
Wednesday, February 09, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: China Blue, The Engine Institute, Inc.; Jill L. Conner, White Hot Magazine and Parsons The New School for Design
Spectral Temporal Aesthetics and Human Perception
China Blue, The Engine Institute, Inc.
Sound as Sculptural Sensation
Michael Brewster, Claremont Graduate University
Witnessing Space
Andrea Polli, University of New Mexico
Developing an Aesthetic: Soundwalking as a Tool for Understanding Urban Sonic Spaces
Jonathan Farrow, City College of New York, City University of New York
Looking at Sound: The Exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
Carey Lovelace, International Art Critics Association
Discussant: Jill L. Conner, White Hot Magazine and Parsons The New School for Design
Bio-Art, Boundaries, and Borders
Wednesday, February 09, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jennifer Johung, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Bio Art Predecessors: Counter-Culture Artists in the 1960s and 1970s
Linda Weintraub
Regeneration: Tissue Engineering, Maintenance, and Gendered Infrastructures
Kelly Rafferty, Arizona State University
Eco-Locative: Media Art and Sustainability Practices
Meredith Hoy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Moving Spaces
Yevgeniya Kaganovich, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Nathaniel Stern, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
CAA Education Committee
MFA? DFA? Ph.D? DVA? Determining the Terminal Degree in Studio Art Practice for the Twenty-First Century
Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hilary Braysmith, University of Southern Indiana
Artists Engaged with Science and Technology
Ellen Levy, University of Plymouth
Unresolved Problems in the Practice-Based PhD
James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Learning from the Sister Art of Music: The Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) as Possible Model for the Doctor of Fine Arts
Margaret Kennedy-Dygas, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
5:30-7 PM
Keynote: the Harrisons
East Ballroom, Hilton Hotel NY, 3rd floor
Thursday February 10
Sponsored by LEAF
12:30 PM
Into Focus: Art/Science in the University Classroom
Adrienne Klein
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), Rooms 9206/9207
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart
Exhibitions:
Thursday, February 10
6:00–8:00 PM
Reception: Foxy Production
Sponsored by Leonardo Education and Art Forum
623 West 27th Street (Map)
On view: Highways Connect and Divide
A group exhibition that explores the positives and negatives of information technology and information systems.
Directions: Take C/E to 23rd Street. Exit at 25th Street and 8th Avenue. Walk west three blocks. Gallery is located between 11th and 12 Avenues.
Friday February 11
LEAF business meeting
12:30-2 in the East Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton
Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?
Friday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Edward Shanken, University of Amsterdam
The Seeds of Discord between New Media and Contemporary Art: Critical Reflections on Art and Technology Projects
Christine Albu, University of Pittsburgh
Could This Be What It Looks Like? Lifelike Art and New Media Practice
Jamie Allen, Newcastle University
Reassembling Components, Hybridizing the Human and the Machine: The “Three Media Ecologies” of Expanded Cinema and the Possibilities for a Discourse of Interfacing
Ji-hoon Kim, New York University
Apparatus and Instruments: Problems of Terminology
Jean Gagnon, Université du Québec à Montréal and Ottawa University
Shot by Both Sides: Art-Science and the War between Science and the Humanities
Philip Galanter, Texas A & M University
The Artist in the Laboratory: Co-operating (t)Reasonably
Jane Prophet, Goldsmiths, University of London
New Media in the Mainstream
Christiane Paul, The New School and Whitney Museum
Transdisciplinary Strategies in Art and Science
Paul Thomas, University of New South Wales
The Post-Critical Hybrid
Ronald Jones, Konstfack, University College of Art, Craft and Design
, Stockholm
Saturday Feb. 12
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
Designing a New Joint Studio, Art History, and Theory Program: A Gedanken Art/Science Experiment
Saturday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse A, Concourse Level, Hilton New York
Chair: Ellen K. Levy, New York University
The Ideal Interdisciplinary Program
Patricia Olynyk, Washington University in St. Louis
Challenges of Art and Design’s Future
Joseph S. Lewis III, University of California, Irvine
Cross-Disciplinary Research Models
Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles and Parsons The New School for Design
Discussant: Meredith Tromble, Leonardo/ISAST
2:30–5:00 PM
Art/Technology Global Sample
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Mark Tribe, Brown University; Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology