Surplus Affect
3/3/2018 @ 7pm @ Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

Screening of video art by Tony Conrad co-curated by Laura McGough + Anna Scime
Presented in collaboration w/ Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

still from “Grading Tips for Teachers” (2003), Tony Conrad, part of “Tony Conrad: Later Works in Video”

Along with Anna Scime, I have co-curated Tony Conrad Later Works in Video which is part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery‘s retrospective Introducing Tony Conrad,the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, March – June 2018. The exhibition will travel to the MIT List Center in October 2018 and the ICA Philadelphia in February 2019.

Introducing Tony Conrad – Wall Text and Object Labels

Tony Conrad: Later Works – Video Descriptions

I will be presenting a paper on multimodal composition at the SUNY Conference on Writing on September 9, 2017 as part of a panel entitled “Composing in a General Education Capstone: Interrogating Successful Practices for an Integrative Learning Curriculum.”

NYSSSA
Friday, July 14
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Engineering Tech Building
Alfred State University
Alfred, NY

On Friday, July 14, I’ll be speaking to high school students at the NY State Summer School for Media Arts about recent projects that explore the live stream as artistic material. The event is  open to the public.

On April 21^st I will be presenting research conducted with Eric Souther, Assistant Professor of New Media at Indiana University South Bend, and Jason Bernagozzi, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State University, at the R-Cade Symposium at Rutgers-Camden University.  R-CADE invites scholars to dissect, and repurpose obsolete technologies in an attempt to understand their historical and cultural significance. Scholars and artists work over the course of many months by researching and/or repurposing an object of study, and they share this work during the symposium. With funding from R-Cade, we have worked to convert an analog-to-digital television tuner into a new hardware glitch instrument for use in performance and exhibition, on its own or in collaboration with other digital and analog media tools.

I’ll be presenting at SCMS on Sunday March 26 from 9:00 – 10:45 in the 4^th floor conference room at the Fairmont Hotel, Chicago as part of the “Time, Space, and Storytelling” panel chaired by Jason Gendler, University of California, Los Angeles.

Jason Gendler, University of California, Los Angeles
“Storytelling Conventions of Bulk-release Television Narratives”

Shannon Tarbell, University of Chicago
“The Verbal Flashback in the Sound Film”

Laura McGough, SUNY, University at Buffalo
“The Turn to Liveness within The Media Arts: From Presence to Co-presence”

Eliot Bessette, University of California, Berkeley
“Haunt Mediation: 2D Renderings of 3D Threat Spaces”

Jason Bernagozzi, Eric Souther and I have been documenting our experiences hacking digital-to-analog television converters  on this blog. Our final research will be presented at the R-Cade Symposia at Rutgers U/Camden in April. The goal is to reanimate converter boxes as real-time broadcast interruption instruments for use in exhibition or performance.

Among other experiments, we performed a hardware datamosh (via circuit-bending) of a broadcast of “The Joy of Painting.” This hack was live-streamed over FaceBook.

I’ll be presenting research conducted with Eric Souther and Jason Bernagozzi on digital to analog conversion boxes (a.k.a. “TV tuners”) at the R-Cade Symposium at Rutgers-Camden in April 2017. We’ll be documenting the process of converting TV tuners into a new hardware glitch instrument. Read more about the symposium here.

On November 11th I’ll be presenting as part of the Purple States, an election week event sponsored by the Techne Institute at the University at Buffalo (see below)

November 11, 2016
Screening Room
Center for the Arts, SUNY at Buffalo, North Campus
Free and open to the public, 4pm-6pm
 Three Parts:
4 pm-5 pm 

A panel discussion commenting the election process through social media networks. Co-moderated by Harvey Palmer and Franck Bauchard

Tero Karppi
Assistant Professor of Media Theory, Dep of Media study, UB

Rebecca Bryan
PhD Student, research focus on political behavior, specifically political participation, social networks and social media.

Jacob Neiheisel
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, UB

Nikolaus Wasmoen
Postdoctoral fellow in English, Digital Humanities at UB

Harvey D. Palmer
Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Political Science

Franck Bauchard
Director of Techne Institute, Associate professor Arts management program

 5 pm -5.30 pm 

“Four More Years: Media Artists + Election Interventions”
A presentation from Laura McGough

Laura McGough is a media art historian, curator and educator based in Buffalo, NY. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Media Study. Her research focuses on liveness within the media arts.

 5:30 pm-6 pm

Digital performance from Valérie Cordy

The Asteroid
Valérie Cordy uses the metaphor of the asteroid for her digital happenings, considering its fundamental characteristic of being, above all, an independent being, responding to the laws of mechanics, but not to those of orbital habits that the ether makes us think as immanent.

On stage, Valérie Cordy, through her asteroids, captures the flow of data in relation to the contexts and specific paths: disaster in Haiti, financial crisis, etc. Her asteroid integrates that flow to return it in a powerful live moment, thanks to digital technologies that enable to deconstruct this data and turn it into strong and meaningful messages, giving to decrypt the world differently

Valérie Cordy is the director of the Fabrique de Théâtre, as well as a theater director and digital artist.