A-1 Sherwood 8:30-10:00
Multimedia Interactivity: Where is the Body?
Chair: Cinthea Fiss, University of Denver
1)Donna Tracy, Los Angeles
Virtual Species or Digital Waste
2) Clare Charles Cornell, Metropolitan State University
The Virtual/Visceral: (re)Visioning Sex for the Twenty-first Century
3) Kelly Hashimoto, Artist in residence at the World Trade Tower
BuckStop: Pro-Vanities in the Bathroom
4) Cinthea Fiss, University of Denver
Muscle_Beach
A-2 Morningside 8:30-10:00
Science, Technology and Race
Chair: Alicia Gamez, University of California, Berkeley
1) Alondra Nelson, New York Univerity
A Black Mass: Black Power, Bio Politics and Myths of Science
2) Jessica Baldanzi, Indiana University, Bloomington
Whose New Race? Sanger, Toomer, and 1920s Narratives of American Eugenics
3) Alicia Gamez, University of California, Berkeley
A Beautiful Gradation: Order and the Creation of Human Beauty
4) Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia
Pseudo-scientific theories of racial difference in the seventeenth century
A-3 Piedmont 8:30-10:00
The Energies of Modernism
Chair: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University
1) Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The University of Texas at Austin
Energy without Einstein: Invisible Energies and Forces in Early 20th Century Art
2) Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University
Thermodynamic Impasse in Zamyatin's We
3) Oliver A. I. Botar, University of Manitoba
The "Dynamic-Constructive System of Energies" and the Metaphor of Energy in the Work of
L szl¢ Moholy-Nagy
A-4 Augusta 8:30-10:00
Science, Causality, Turn-of-the-Century Fiction
Chair: Stephen Kern, Northern Illinois University
1) Stephen Kern, Northern Illinois University
The Causal Role of Ancestry in the Etiology of Murder Fiction, 1830-2000"
2) Lawrence D. Frank, The University of Oklahoma
Shifting the Paradigm in Doyle's Detective Fiction:
3) Robert Hendrick, St. John's University
In Jules Verne's Path: Ideological Defense in the Texts and Illustrations
of Science Novels in Fin-de-Siäcle France
A-5 Highland 8:30-10:00
Re-Writing the Genome
Chair: Stephanie Turner, Purdue University
1) Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University
"Genome Time"
2) James Luberda, University of Connecticut
Genes: From Hot Medium to Cool
3) Susan McHugh, Georgia Tech
Splicing Saurians and Amphibians, Racism and Multiculturalism: Imaging Transgenic Cultures in The Lost World
A-6 Ansley 8:30-10:00
Scientists, Monsters, and Robots: Media Representations of Humanity and Technology
Chair: Lynda Coupe, Pace University
1) Lynda Coupe, Pace University
MaryShelley's Creations: Men and Monsters
2) Susan Crawford, Pace University
The Mechanical Messenger
3) Robert Klaeger, Pace University
Human Ingenuity in Science Fiction Films
A-7 Fulton 8:30-10:00
Meat and Masculinity
Chair: Heather Schell, Miami University
1) Heather Schell, Miami University
A Taste for Flesh: Diet, Difference, and Power in Victorian India
2) Jeanne Hamming, West Virginia University
Sado-Masochism and The Crocodile Hunter
3) Daniel Tripp, West Virginia University
Wake Up!: Epiphanic Masculinity, Media Culture, and Millennial Cinema
A-8 Savannah 8:30-10:00
Science, Technology, and Postmodern Fiction
Chair: Lance Schacterle, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
1) Lance Schachterle, WPI
and P.K. Aravind, WPI
Three Equations in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
2) Sandy Baldwin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rocket Scientists: Innis/Snow Crash, Kittler/Gravity's Rainbow, or media theory as aesthetic pseudo-solution
3) Joseph Conte, SUNY at Buffalo
Postmodern Fiction in the Age of Hypermedia: Don DeLillo, Robert Coover, Richard Powers
Session B 10:30-12:00
B-1 Ansley 10:30-12:00
Literature and Online Multiuser Virtual Environments: A Panel Discussion
Chair: Stephen Guynup, MacWeb3D - Atlanta GA
Panelists: Stephen Guynup, MacWeb3D - Atlanta GA, Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology, Jeff Sonstein, Rochester Institute of Technology
B-2 Sherwood 10:30-12:00
Medical Imaging (I): Knowledge, Action, and the Telepresent Body
Chair: Jim Swan, SUNY at Buffalo
1)Tim Lenoir, Stanford University
The Virtual Surgeon: New Medical Practices for an Age of Medialization
2) Bernadette Wegenstein, SUNY at Buffalo
Getting under the Skin: Medializations of the Inner Body, or How Faces Have Become Obsolete
3) Mark Hansen, Princeton University
Imaging the Virtual Body
B-3 Fulton 10:30-12:00
Cultures of Nature I: Supernatural, Antinatural, and Postnatural Places
Chair: Lance Newman, State University of West Georgia
1) Douglas W. Richards, Keuka College
2) Christopher Rieger, Louisiana State U
3) Lee Rozelle, U. of Southern Mississippi
4) Randy Malamud, Georgia State U
B-4 Savannah 10:30-12:00
Taming Threats, Training Subjects: Journalistic Engagements with New Technologies
Chair: Jack Bratich, University of Illinois
1) Jack Bratich, University of Illinois
"The Conspiracist's Medium of Choice": Professional Journalism, Amateur Knowledges, and
Unruly Technologies.
2) Heidi Brush, University of Illinois
Framing the Hacker: Electronic Sabotage, Control Societies and the Threat of Invisibility
B-5 Augusta 10:30-12:00
Poetry, Semiotics, Aesthetics
Chair: Ron Schleiffer, University of Oklahoma
1)Ron Schleiffer, University of Oklahoma
The Poetics of Tourette Syndrome
2) Mirko Petric, University of Split (Croatia)
Humans and Machines: New Problems for a Semiotic Aesthetic
3) Yu-hsiu Brenda Hsu
The "Simultaneity" in Text: E. E. Cummings's Fourth-dimensional World
4) Herbert Shu-Shun Chan, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
The Matrix is the Message
B-6 Piedmont 10:30-12:00
The Art of Exhibiting Science and Technology, 1850-1970
Chair: Anne Collins Goodyear, The University of Texas at Austin
1) Ethan Robey, Columbia University
'A Peculiar Beauty': The Convergence of the Practical and the Poetic in
Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions.
2) Christina Cogdell, University of Texas at Austin
Evolution and the Rise of Modern Architecture
3) Anne Collins Goodyear, The University of Texas at Austin
'Art and Technology': Matchmaking, Art-Making, and Technological Innovation
B-7 Morningside 10:30-12:00
Darwinian Noise: Number, Affect, Vomit
Chair: Richard Doyle, Penn State University
1) Richard Doyle, Penn State University
Listening to Darwin:Monstrosity's Vector of Selection
2) Elizabeth Wilson, University of Sydney
Animalistic Affects
3) Brian Rotman, Ohio State University
On The Discovery of Mathematics Among the Bees: Darwinian Evolution of Mathemes
B-8 Highland 10:30-12:00
Attending The Progressive Dinner Party: 39 Literary Web Works by Women, 1995-2000
Marjorie C. Luesebrink and Stephanie Strickland
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Lunch (on your own) 12:00-1:30
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Session C 1:30-3:00
C-1 Savannah 1:30-3:00
Embodiment and Computer-mediated Communication
Chair: Lisa Cartwright, University of Rochester
1: Catherine Waldby, University of New South Wales
Circuits of Desire: Virtual Erotics and the Problem of Bodily Location
2: Natalie Jeremijenko, Yale University
On the Design of Interactive Systems:
How-to trigger Explosives or Other 'Interactive' Media
3: Lisa Cartwright , University of Rochester
Embodiment and the Body-Technology Interface in the Facilitated Communication Debates
C-2 Augusta 1:30-3:00
Medical Imaging (II)
Chair: Eve Keller, Fordham University.
1) Eve Keller, Fordham University
The Subject of Touch: Case Histories of Early-Modern Midwifery
2) Mary Pitts Rhodes College
Engineering Illness: Where Medical Imaging Technology and Rhetoric Meet
C-3 Sherwood 1:30-3:00
Constructing Subjects I
Chair: William Egginton, SUNY Buffalo
1) Sebastien Jean, Universite de Montreal
AI Research: Reconfiguring Ideas of the Subject
2) Kate Eichhorn, York University
Domestic Predators: Technologies of Interpellation from the Telephone to the Internet
3) William Egginton, SUNY Buffalo
Reality is Bleeding: A Brief History of Film from the 16th Century
C-4 Morningside 1:30-3:00
Technology and the Reconfiguration of Time and Space in the Post-World War II United States
Chair: Patrick Sharp, Georgia Institute of Technology
1)Patrick Sharp, Georgia Institute of Technology
Don't Be There!': Strategizing Urban Survival in the Early Cold War
2) Lisa Yaszek, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nothing will ever be the same again': Viral Transformation of the Urban Landscape in Recent Science Fiction
3) Sandy Baldwin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Speed and Ecstasy: Narrative and Real Time after McLuhan
4) Eugene Thacker, Rutgers University
"Regenerative Medicine: We Can Regrow It For You Wholesale"
C-5 Piedmont 1:30-3:00
Environments on Line: The Cassiquiare Exchange
Chair: Laura Walls, Lafayette College
1) Lee Sterrenburg, Indiana University
The Cassiquiare Channel: Alexander Von Humboldt's Visual and Verbal Icon for Exchange
2) Laura Walls, Lafayette College
"Wild Fruits": Educing the Environment
3) Bradley P. Dean, Thoreau Research Institute
Hyperlinking Henry Thoreau
C-6 Fulton 1:30-3:00
Sound Knowledge: Acoustics and the Production of the Real
Chair: Florian Dombois, German National Research Center
1) Florian Dombois, German National Research Center for Information Technology
Open Your Eyes - Open Your Ears: An old and a new way of producing scientific content
2) Alexander Weheliye, SUNY, Stony Brook
Consuming Sonic Technologies: Ralph Ellison's 'Living With Music' and Darnel Martin's I LikeIt Like That
3) Richard Menke, University of Georgia
'Neither Voice nor Feet': Realism, Telegraphy, and the Discourse Networks of 1850
4) Dawn Morgan, University of Central Florida
Bombast and Embodiment in Thomas Urquhart's Jewel (1652)
C-7 Ansley 1:30-3:00
Raising the Dead
Chair: Richard Nash, Indiana University
1) Alison Bright, Drew University
Resurrecting Monsters: the After-Life of 19th Century Sci-fi in Film
2) John Greenway, University of Kentucky
"It's Alive!": The Revival of the Dead in Romantic Medicine
3) Richard Nash, Indiana University
Mary Shelley's "Curious Monkey": _Frankenstein_ and the radical
implications of Early Anthropology
C-8 Highland 1:30-3:00
Site Explorations
Chair: Scott Harshbarger, Hofstra University
1) Scott Harshbarger, Hofstra University
Irony.Net, or *There is No Irony on This Page
2) Alison Colman, The Ohio State University
Evolution of the Kwanzaa Playground Website
3) Maura C. Flannery, St. John's University
HMS Beagle: The Webzine, a New-and Different-Type of Science Literature
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Session D 3:30- 5:00
D-1 Sherwood 3:30- 5:00
New Wine in Old Bottles: Media Theory at Work--in Theory and Practice.
Chair: Michael Wutz, Weber State University
1) Michael Wutz, Weber State University
Agency and Angst: Mangled Hands and Industrialized Writing
2) Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University
The Fly as Noise
3) Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia
Mobilizing Media
D-2 Fulton 3:30- 5:00
Actual Bodies: Drugs, Transplants, Aesthetics
Chair: Elizabeth Wilson, University of Sydney.
1) Helen Keane, Australian National University
The Substance of Drugs
2) Marsha Rosengarten, University of New South Wales
Xenotransplantation, Human Difference and Material Fodder
3) renÇe c. hoogland, University of Nijmegen
The Matter of Culture: Embodied Subjectivity and/as Aesthetic Production
D-3 Highland 3:30- 5:00
I Sing the Poem Electric (So Why Did You Pull the Plug?): A Panel Discussion
Chair: Thomas , Lafayette College
Panelists: Thomas Yuster, Lafayette College; Laura Walls, Lafayette College; Bianca Falbo,Lafayette College
D-4 Ansley 3:30- 5:00
Constructing Subjects II
Chair: Michelle Kendrick, Washington State University
1) Michelle R. Kendrick, Washington State University
A Fine Line: Digital Interface and the Construction of the User
2) Marcus Leaning, University of Luton
Ideas of the subject in New Media
3) Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Georgia Tech
Universal Creation: Hypermedia, Science, and the Female Subject in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka
4) Carol Ann Wald, UCLA
John Von Neumann's "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata" and Fictions of Female Artificial Intelligence
D-5 Morningside 3:30- 5:00
Allegory, Symbol, and Metaphor in Science
Chair: Hugh Crawford, Georgia Tech
1) Sidney Perkowitz, Emory University
"It's Bubbles all the Way Down:" Foam as Scientific Metaphor
2) Arthur Helweg , Western Michigan University
Metaphors and Phanthemes in Science and Technology
3) Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University
"How Subtle is the Lord," and How is the Lord Subtle: Symbol and Allegory
in Physics from Kepler and Galileo to Einstein and Bohr
D-6 Piedmont 3:30- 5:00
Diagrammatology
Chair: Kenneth Knoespel, Georgia Tech
1)Sha Xin Wei, Georgia Institute of Technology
Geometry As Writing As Performance
2) Kenneth Knoespel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Recalibrating the Literal
3) John Peponis, Georgia Tech
The Geometric Plot of Invisible Cities.
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Dinner (on your own)
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8:00 pm Plenary Lecture, Habersham Room
Introduction: Martin Rosenberg, Kettering University
Madeline Gins and Arakawa
Opening Up Experience: Experimental Embedded Embodiment
Session E 8:15-9:45
E-1 Sherwood 8:15-9:45
Mechanical Metaphors in a Digital Age
Chair: Stephanie Tripp, University of Florida
1) Thomas Cohen, University of Florida
Zeno's Paradoxes in the Digital Age
2) Michael Laffey, University of Florida
Prosth(aesth)etics: Or, The Mutual Inclusivity of Pro-ject and Sub-ject
3) Stephanie Tripp, University of Florida
Ghosts Outside the Machine: From Magic Lantern to Electronic Phantasmagoria
E-2 Piedmont 8:15-9:45
Medicine, Performativity, andPersuasion I
Chair: Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Penn State University College of Medicine
1) Lisa Roney, Penn State University
Biology, Psychology, and Performativity: The Case of Carson McCullers
2) Kathryn Montgomery, Northwestern Univ. Medical School
Knowing One's Place: the performance of clinical responsibility in a Hospital Conference
3) Caroline Wellbery, Georgetown University
Old Emnities, New Advocates: The Science vs. Art of Medicine
4) Kendrick Prewitt, University of the Ozarks
E-3 Fulton 8:15-9:45
Cultures of Nature 3: The Pedagogy and Practice of Environmentalism
Chair: Kavita Philip, Georgia Tech
1) Rob Hill, Georgia Tech
Problems in Pedagogy: Putting the Material back into Sustainability
2) Jimmy Lo, Georgia Tech
Krieger Depolarization and the Imminent Big Bang
3) Christina Whitenton Georgia Tech
Environmental Activism in Georgia
E-4 Highland 8:15-9:45
Ethics, Politics, and Information
Chair: Gustaaf Cornelius, Free University, Brussels
1) Gustaaf Cornelis, Free University, Brussels
Old Philosophy, New Technology: Ethical Problems concerning Nuclear Waste Management
2) Wynship Hillier, Wynship Hillier, Incorporated
Ethics and Information Technology, Data Privacy, Philosophy, Engineering
3) Tim Ziaukas, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and
Don Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
E-lection 2000: the Internet and the Future of Presidential Politics
4) Hazem Ziada, Georgia Tech
Tradition and the Challenges of Technological Transfer
E-5 Savannah 8:15-9:45
Nostalgia, Science, and Technology
Chair: Vincent J Willoughby, Georgia Tech
1) Linda Brigham, Kansas State University
"Deep Ecology and Relentless Rage in Shelley's Sensitive-Plant."
2) Vincent J Willoughby , Georgia Tech
Futuristic Antiques: Steampunk and the Technological Imagination
3) Marc Olivier, B.Y.U
From Microscopes to iMacs: Towards a Theory of Nostalgia and Technology
E-6 Morningside 8:15-9:45
Consciousness, Culture, and Cognitive Science
Chair: Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky, Lexington
1) Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Cognitive Science and Ideology
2) Jonathan Goodwin, University of Florida
Ideology and Cognitivist Cultural Theory
3) Trey Strecker, Ball State University
'The Draft of a Draft': The Evolution of Distributed Consciousness in Evan Dara's The Lost Scrapbook
4) Greg Garvey, Quinnipiac University
The Bicameral Mind and the Split-Brain Human Computer Interface
E-7 Augusta 8:15-9:45
Learning Science
Chair: Ariel Saiber, Bowdoin College
1) Dennis Desroches, McMaster University
Reading Efficiency: Textbook, Treatise, and Indoctrination.
2) Steve Pearson, University of Georgia
Moliere and Atomic Family Values
3) Ariel Saiber, Bowdoin College
"Why Women Want to Know About Optics"
4) Christopher Devine, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Reading Science in the Original: Classic Texts seen from the Perspective of Contemporary Science
E-8 Ansley 8:15-9:45
Thinking about Science and the Humanities
Chair: Luis O. Arata, Quinnipiac University
1) Muriel Lederman, Virginia Tech
Teaching Science by Deconstruction
2) Karyn Valerius, SUNY Stony Book
"Thinking about Science" and rethinking the science-humanities divide in the undergraduate classroom
3) Benjamin Cohen, Virginia Tech
Literature, Science, and Two Cultures: Bridging and Blurring the Divide, from C.P. Snow to the Science Wars.
4) Luis O. Arata, Quinnipiac University
Interactive Functions in Literature and Science
Session F 10:15- 11:45
F-1 Piedmont 10:15- 11:45
Avatar Interventions
Chair: Anne Weinstone, Stanford University
1) Phoebe Sengers, German National Computer Science Research Center Pathologies of the Avatar
2) Ann Weinstone, Stanford University
How to Become an Avatar Body
3) Robert Cheatham, Editor, Perforations
X Marks the Spot: Avatars, Trauma, and the Uncanny
F-2 Fulton 10:15- 11:45
Medicine, Performativity, and Persuasion II
Chair: Susan Squier, Penn State University
1) Christopher Amirault, Brown University
2) Katherine Peterson, New York University
3) Tod Chambers, Northwestern University Medical School
4) Anne Davis Basting, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
F-3 Ansley 10:15- 11:45
Life on the Screen
Chair: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University
1) Greg Siegel, University of North Carolina
Stadium Spectacular: Large-Screen Video Displays and Live Sports Entertainment
2) Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University
CAVE: virtual reality artwork
3) Klaus Benesch, University of Freiburg
Myth, Television, and the Obsolescence of Postmodern Drama: Don DeLillo's Tragicomedy Valparaiso
F-4 Morningside 10:15- 11:45
Bomb/Sex: the Meaning of Machines on the Big Screen
Chair: Richard Douglas Davis, Carnegie Mellon University
1) Richard Douglas Davis, Carnegie Mellon University
Hollywood Doomsday Machines
2) Patrick Sharp, Georgia Tech
'The Bomb Will Bring Us Together': Nuclear Families in the Films of James Cameron
3) Rebecca Holden, Independent Scholar
'Boys with toys:' The Changing Face of James Bond and the Construction of Masculinity
4) Lisa Yaszek, Georgia Institute of Technology
'Clever girls': Genetic Engineering and Gendered Identity in Jurassic Park
F-5 Highland 10:15- 11:45
Matters of New Media
Chair: Terry Harpold, University of Florida
1)Terry Harpold, University of Florida
Reading-work
2) Ellen Strain, Georgia Tech
and Gregory VanHoosier-Carey, Georgia Tech
Technology-less Technology and the Digital Compromise within Humanities Pedagogy
F-6 Augusta 10:15- 11:45
Light and (IN)Sight: Reflections on Mirrors and other Media.
Chair: James McManus
1) James McManus and Amy Ione
Mirrored Realities - True or False? Questioning Van Eyck, Velasquez and Manet"
2) Russel Kauffman, Muhlenberg College and
Barri Gold, Muhlenberg College
It's All Done with Mirrors: Ether Theory from Bronte to Woolf
F-7 Sherwood 10:15-11:45
Net Lit
Chair: Richard House, Georgia Tech
1) Ralph Buechler, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Rhetoric and Hypertextuality: Language and Literature on the Internet
2)Douglas Basford, Johns Hopkins University
The Borges Boolean: Lessons from an Early Manuscript Posted on the Internet
3) Helen Onhoon Choi, UCLA
Technologies of Reading: Modernist Collage and Hypertexual Assemblage
F-8 Savannah 10:15- 11:45
Medicine and Culture I
Chair: Jeffrey S. Reznick, Emory University
1) Jeffrey S. Reznick, Emory University
Prosthetics, Prostheses, and Propaganda in Great Britain in the Great War
2) Kathleen Welch, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
"Literature and Medicine Programs: Re-Scripting Medical Students' Understanding of the Text
of Doctor/Patient Interactions,"
3) Scott Warnock, Temple University
Optometry's rise to power in the health care arena: A rhetorical study
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11:45- 1:30 SLS Business Lunch (Crown Room)
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Session G 1:30- 3:00
G-1 Augusta 1:30- 3:00
Neotechnostalgia
Chair: David Crane, UC, Santa Cruz
1)David Crane, UC, Santa Cruz
Old Lines for New: Telephony and the Web
2) Ellen McCallum, Michigan State University
It's Only Ones and Neos: The Matrix's Line on Humanism
3) Lisa Nakamura, Sonoma State University
Race in the Construct, or the Re-Construction of Race: New Media and Old Identities in The Matrix
G-2 Piedmont 1:30- 3:00
Medicine and Culture II
Chair: Beth Donaldson, Stephen F. Austin State University
1) Beth Donaldson, Stephen F. Austin State University
The Madman in the Prison: Masculinity and the Criminalization of Mental Illness
2) ME Warlick, University of Denver
HÑxan: Witchcraft, Women and Psychiatry in the 1920s
3) David Raney, Emory University
'The Spectre of the Same': Germ Theory and Class Anxiety in America
4) David Flood, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia and
Rhonda L. Soricelli, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia
The Next Pandemic: Fictional Scenarios "Model" the Future
G-3 Highland 1:30- 3:00
Media: Politics and Persuasion I
Chair: Kathryn M. Plank, Penn State University
1) Ann Daghistany, Texas Tech
"Old and News Media Frames: Who's Telling the Story?"
2) Kathryn M. Plank, Penn State University
Anti-Vaccinationism on the Internet: A New Medium for an Old Resistance
3) Marcy Wheeler, University of Michigan
The Prehistory of the Web: Lessons of the Feuilleton on Citizenship
4) John F. Ronan, University of Florida
Getting Around: The Underground Press Syndicate and undergound comix
G-4 Sherwood 1:30- 3:00
Electronic Pedagogy: New Media in the Classroom
Chair: Laura Sullivan, University of Florida
1) Ingrid Daemmrich, Drexel University
From Recorders to Researchers: First-Year University Students' Testing of Journal-Writing as a Medium for Stress Relief
2) F. Elizabeth Hart, The University of Connecticut
A Case Study in Computers and Pedagogy: Intersections of Anonymity and Authority
3) Laura Sullivan, University of Florida
Resistance Through Hypertext: ACTing UP in the Electronic Classroom
G-5 Morningside 1:30- 3:00
Race, Gender, and the Internet
Chair: Jillana B. Enteen, Northwestern University
1) Jillana B. Enteen, Northwestern University
"'Thai Sisters are Doing it for Themselves' : Thai Women on the Internet"
2) Lorraine Ouimet, The University of Florida
Hypertextualizing Black Texts: The (Middle) Passage from Literacy to Electracy
G-6 Ansley 1:30- 3:00
Music, Mathematics, and the Performance of Measure
Chair: Jim Swan, SUNY at Buffalo
1) Janet Danielson, Simon Fraser University
Distance, Dissonance, and Piero's Flagellation
2) Jim Swan, SUNY at Buffalo
Prisoner of Consciousness: Solitaire, Music, and Number
3) Martin E. Rosenberg, Kettering University
Ornette Coleman, Harmelodics and Phase Space: Envisioning the Field of All Possibilities Harmonic, Melodic and Rhythmic
Respondent: Sha Xin Wei, Stanford University
G-7 Savannah 1:30- 3:00
Drama, Bodies, and Digital Performance
Chair: Rhona Justice Malloy, Central Michigan University
1) Barry Mauer, University of Central Florida
The Challenges of Scripting Drama for Interactive Media
2) Rhona Justice Malloy, Central Michigan University
Digital Performance and the Impossibility of the Body in Cyberspace
3) August W. Staub, University of Georgia
Media and the Body: The Question of Center, Sticking Point and Sphere
G-8 Fulton 1:30- 3:00
Reproduction and Digital Art
Chair: Diane Gromala, Georgia Tech
1) Paul-Brian McInerney, Columbia University
The logic of digital (re)production
2) Starla Stensaas, Nebraska Wesleyan University
New Art, Old Art Forms: Interactivity as a digital art signifier
3) Cathryn Vasseleu, University of Technology, Sydney
"What is Virtual Light?"
Session H 3:30-5:00
H-1 Highland 3:30-5:00
MOOing
Chair: Bradley Dilger, University of Florida
1) Jane Love,University of Florida
Space, Time, and the Textuality of Webbed MOO
2) Bradley Dilger, University of Florida and
Brendan Riley, University of Florida
Space, Narrative and the Rhetoric of the MOO
H-2 Sherwood 3:30-5:00
Cultures of Nature 4: Postcolonialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization
Chair : Kavita Philip, Georgia Tech
1) Sarah Hill, Johns Hopkins University
Domesticating the Environment: Personal Responsibility on the US-Mexico Border
2) Ashley Dawson, University of Iowa
Seeing Small Places: Ecotourism, Neoimperialism, and the Environment
3) Nelson Prato Barbosa, Universidad Central de Venezuela
and Francisco P ez, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Environment and Tourism: Cultural Challenges for Rural Areas in the New Millenium
4) Neal Bukeavich, West Virginia University
Population Ecology and John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_
H-3 Ansley 3:30-5:00
Media: Politics and Persuasion II
Chair: Alex Reid, Penn State Capital College
1) Kevin Lagrandeur, New York Institute of Technology
Images and Persuasion in Electronic Media
2) Alexander Reid, Penn State Capital College
Panoptics to "Cyber-optics:" Media and Control in eXistenZ
3) Stacy Takacs, Georgia Tech
The Images Are What Got to People": Camcorders and the Principle of Proximity in Bosnian War Coverage
4) Mark Frankel, Georgia Institute of Technology
With Liberty and Management for All: Soviet Montage, Scientific Management and the Ethos of Professionalism
H-4 Augusta 3:30-5:00
Evolutionary Narratives
Chair: Bernice L. Hausman, Virginia Tech
1) Bernice L. Hausman, Virginia Tech
Evolutionary Narratives and Maternal Practices Today
2) Michael Rectenwald, Carnegie Mellon University
The Medium of Anonymous Authorship in 19th Century Evolutionary Discourse: Vestiges of "The Divine Author" in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"
3) William Paulson, University of Michigan
Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles: Cloning, Reductionism, and the Deregulated Libidinal Economy.
H-5 Fulton 3:30-5:00
Virtuality and Embodiment
Chair: Lahti Martti, University of Lapland
1) Ken Rufo, University of Georgia
"Cyberplace and the Virtual Body: A Journy Into the Well"
2) Lahti Martti, University of Lapland
Computerized Skin: Cyborgian Pleasures of Computer and Video Games
3) Bob Rehak, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Playing at Being: Avatarial Operations in First-Person Videogames
H-6 Piedmont 3:30-5:00
Photography , Representation, Ideology
Chair: Blake Leland, Georgia Tech
1) Ruth E. Iskin, University of British Columbia
On the Subject of Media: Photography vs. Perspective as New vs. Old
2) Isabel WÅnsche, California Institute of Technology
From Scientific Imaging to Artistic Creation: Karl Blossfeldt's Photographic Work
3) Blake Leland, Georgia Tech
Auras & Auguries
H-7 Savannah 3:30-5:00
SLS and You: SLS Bibliography, SLS Web Pages, Roundtable Discussion
Discussion Leader: Sue Hagedorn, Virginia Tech
H-8 Morningside 3:30-5:00
Seeing and Knowing
Chair: Robert Markley, West Virginia University
1) Dennis Desroches, McMaster University
The Scientist's Prosthesis: (Post)Classical Experiment from Bacon to the QED.
2) Robert Markley, University of West Virginia
Imagining Earth, Imagining Ecology: Visualizing Earth from Outer Space, 1892-1956
3) Ron Broglio, Georgia Tech
Mapping England: Enlightenment Science Founding Romantic Nationalism
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Dinner (on your own)
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Plenary 8:00 Habersham Room
Introduction: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University
Invisible Architectures
Marcos Novak, UCLA
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Crown room at the top of the Sheraton Hotel
I-1 Ansley 8:30 - 10:00
Digital Performance
Chair: Sha Xin Wei, Georgia Institute of Technology
1) Trace Reddell, University of Denver
Remix, Remediate, Reformulate: "Plato's Pharmacy" (Ambient Media Mix)
2) Marjorie C. Luesebrink and Stephanie Strickland
"Errand on which we came"
3) Sha Xin Wei, Sponge
Sponge+FOAM:M3:TGarden, a responsive space
I-1 Ansley 10:15- 10:45
SLS Wrap-up