Digital Legacies of the Avant Garde

American University of Paris: April 14, 2012


Morning Session: Grand Salon, 31 Avenue Bosquet

9:30am Welcoming Remarks

Stephen Monteiro, American University of Paris

Panel 1 MODELS

9:45am Electronic Civil Disobedience: The Strategic Avant-garde

Fidele Vlavo, London South Bank University

10:05am The Art and Politics of the Digital Underground: Dissent in an Age of Networks

Kevin Rozario, Smith College

10:25am Marcel, no more painting, go get a job

Gabriela Galati, University of Plymouth-Planetary Collegium

11:00-11:15am Break

Panel 2 METHODS

11:15pm The Eternal Network: Avant-garde Activism and the Cultural Commons

Stephen Voyce, University of Iowa

11:35pm From Cut-up Technique to the Aesthetics of ‘Cut and Paste’: Contesting Authorial Originality in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Kaja Marczewska, Durham University

11:55pm Cumbia Along the Autobahn: Rhizomatous Identities and Postnational Music Production

Jennifer Chu, Yale University

12:15pm Frictionless Sharing and Digital Promiscuity

Robert Payne, American University of Paris

12:50-2:30pm Mid-Day Break


Afternoon Session: Room 31, 6 Rue Colonel Combes

Panel 3 GENEAOLOGIES

2:30pm Analog Circuit Palettes, Cathode Ray Canvases: Digital Cinema's Analog, Experimental Past

Gregory Zinman, New York University

2:50pm Polish Constructivism and Current Media Philosophies and Practices

Aleksandra Kaminska, York University/p>

3:10pm VanDerBeek’s Socialimagestics: Or, What Might Have Been a Fourth Avant-garde

Mark Bartlett, University of the Creative Arts

3:45-4:00pm Break

4:00pm Keynote

Mark Tribe, Brown University

5:15-5:30pm Break

5:30pm Roundtable