The New International Division of Cultural Labor
  Toby Miller, Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts

Transmitters, Satellites, and Audiences in Indian Broadcasting
  David Lelyveld, Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University

Technologies of Self and the Performance of Frugality
  May Joseph, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Train Journeys: Bombay "Locals" and the Circulation of Suspicion
  Radhika Subramaniam, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Moderator: May Joseph, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

HOME/SPINNING: TECHNOLOGIZING SELVES

@ ARDMORE ROOM

Effeminacy as Cultural Work: Resignifying Abjection, Politicizing Selves
  Alex RobertsonTextor, American Culture, University of Michigan

Flawed then Flayed: Images of Woman's [Material] Body Being Performed Upon by Medical/Scientific Technologies
  Jill O'Bryan, Art and Art Professions, New York University

Netsex
  Sarah Standing, City University of New York

Moderator: Amanda Barrett,Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

DOCUMENTS OF PERFORMANCE

@ BROOKWOOD ROOM

Documentary Skepticism and the True Crime Docudrama
  Michelle E. Ridson, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

Tourist Photography as a Performance of Memory
  Yael Raviv, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Eighteenth and Twentieth Century Erotics of Public Transportation
  Marnie Thompson, English, Tulane University

Stars and Stripes
  Jessica Adams, Tulane University

SURREALITY, VIRTUAL REALITY, AND THE QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

@ GEORGIA ROOM

Technologies of Scale: Proximity, "Forgivability," and the Human Shape in Performance
  P.A. Skantze, English Language and Literature, The University of Michigan

Surreality and Virtual Reality, Modernist and Post-Modernist Landscape Art as an Investigation of Performance and Visual Space
  Corrine Calice, Wayne State University

Perception and Perspective in the Static Performance
  Karla Loring

CYBER-GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES

@ MORNINGSIDE ROOM

Four Rooms
  Theresa M. Senft, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

The Lady Vanishes
  Christopher Stahl, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Moderator: James Savoie Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

2:50pm - 4:15pm
Plenary
TECHNOLOGIES OF DEATH

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Playing Dead Again
  Peggy Phelan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Technology Microlectures
  Matthew Goulich, Goat Island, Chicago, IL

Facing the Other: Performance and Death
  Adrian Heathfield, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick

Moderator: Joseph Roach English, Tulane University

4:15pm - 5:00pm
Wrap-Up
WRAP-UP

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Moderator: Janelle Reinelt Theatre, University of California at Davis

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Business Meeting
CHAIRED BY PEGGY PHELAN

@ CONFERENCE SUITE

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Performance
A DANCE/COMPUTER INSTALLATION: "BEFORE NIGHT FALLS"

@ GEORGIA ROOM

Johannes Birringer, Alien Nation Company, Northwestern University
Tessa Elliot, Center for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, UK
Jools Gilson-Ellis, University College Cork, Ireland
Imma Sarries-Sgonc, Alien Nation Company, Brussels, Belgium

FOLLOWED BY:
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: "TECHNOLOGY AND THE FEMININE"

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Concert/Performance
PHOBIA NOVA

@ GRAND STAIRCASE

A leading new music ensemble, Phobia Nova boldly combines theatre, electronic media, traditional instrumentation, and new techniques of musical expression. The concert will include electronic compositions, a CD Rom exhibition by the ensemble, as well as Inlets [for Nine Conch Shells and Fire] and Theatre Piece #1 by John Cage.

Saturday, April 12, 1997

7:30am - 3pm
REGISTRATION


8am - 9:30am
Breakout
PRESENTATION

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

From Mouthpiece to Live place via STEM:
The Use of BIGEYE and LISA in Live Interactive Performance
  Richard Povall, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College
  Jools Gilson-Ellis, English, University College Cork, Ireland

BLACK VOICES, BLACK MOVES: POPULAR MUSIC IN THE DIASPORA

@ ARDMORE ROOM

"Flaneurism" and Cultural Identity in Brazilian Popular Music
  Joao Gabriel L.C. Teixeira, Sociology, University of Brasilia, Brazil

From Dixie to Harlem to Broadway: Authenticity and Passing in the 1920s
  James Wilson, Theatre Program, CUNY Graduate Center

Shake, Shake, Shake...Shake Your Booty: The Disarticulation of Afro Dance in the Transnational Recording Industry
  Anna Beatrice Scott, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Moderator: Paul Jackson, Spelman College

TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANQUILITY

@ BROOKWOOD ROOM

The Performance of Utilitarian Happiness
  Carolyn Shapiro, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Being There and Not-there: Finding One['s] Self in Chat Rooms
  Gary Maciag, Sienna College Theatre Program

Home Shopping Network
  Deborah R. Geis, Queens College, CUNY

THE FINE ARTS OF MANAGING THE [THEATRE] STATE

@ GEORGIA ROOM

Performance and Technologies of Democracy
  Baz Kershaw, Theatre Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

After Dialogue: Theatre of Confinement
  Branislav Jakovlijevic, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Tackling Political Totems and Taboos: Disruptive Performance in the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan
  Ivy I-Chu Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

THEATRES OF THE LIMIT

@ MORNINGSIDE ROOM

Bodies, Texts, and Technologies: The Staging of Power in Robert Lepage's Elsinore
  Margaret Werry, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Cyborgs and Saints: Mystical Performance Spaces in Medieval and Contemporary Theatre
  August S. Staub, Drama, University of Georgia

The Imaginistic Theatre of the Future: George Coates and the Blurring of Technological Boundaries
  Jennifer Starbuck, City University New York

9:45am - 11:15am
Breakout
DOCUMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES:
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Laurie Beth Clark, Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Li Chiao-Ping, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Douglas Rosenberg, University of Florida
Michael Peterson, Milikin University

GENDER, TECHNOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

@ ARDMORE ROOM

Word Made Flesh/Flesh Made Word: of the Body, Sex, and the Sacrament
  Julia Whitworth, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

A Stadium Full of Men Making Promises: Solace and Certainty
  Linda Kintz, English, University of Oregon

Performing Christ[a]: The Female Body and Acts of Post-Christian Signification
  Kirsten Stammer-Fury, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

MACHINES OF CONSCIENCE

@ BROOKWOOD ROOM

Watching the Wall: The Audience on Display
  J.B. Lawton III, Ohio State University

The Leprechaun that Roared: Reading Cultural Codes in the Film Adaptation of JB Keane's "The Field"
 Frederick S. Lapisardi, California University of Pennsylvania

If the Country's Going Gracie, So Can You
  Leah Lowe, Florida State University

CORPOS INFORMATICOS: PERFORMANCE WITH VIDEO

@ GEORGIA ROOM

Carla Rocha, CAPE-Brazilian National Research Council
Alice Staphanie Curi, CNP-Brazilian National Research Council

MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP/DEMONSTRATIONS

@ MORNINGSIDE ROOM

Reading As Performance
  Drew Davidson, University of Texas at Austin

A Lecture/Theatrical Interlude, care of ATHEMOO
 Twyla Mitchell-Shiner, University of California at Santa Barbara

11:25am - 1:00pm
Plenary
PLENARY/PERFORMANCE SESSION

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Virtual Barrio: Ethno-cyborgs and Artificial Savages
  Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Roberto Sifuentes

Talk Show
  Jessica Chalmers

Moderator: Philip Auslander, Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology

1 pm - 2:30pm
Breakout
PROVIDING CONTENT IN INTERFACE ECOLOGIES

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Ecologies of the Interface
  Andruid Kerne, New York University Media Research Lab/Creating Media

"Creative Strategy:" Producing Content at an Interactive Agency
  Melissa Lang, Creating Media

Business Provisions for Electronic Performers
 Jon McKenzie, VRcades, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Incorporating Creativity
  Laura Trippi, dn/a

Moderator: Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

REVISITING THE OLYMPICS

@ ARDMORE ROOM

The Olympic Experience: A [Re] Taking of Centennial Park
  Pamela A. Turner, Georgia State University
  Julie A. Jordan, Theatre Program CUNY Graduate Center

Olympic Reflections on the Community of the American South
  J. Caleb Boyd, Florida State University

LOW TECH THEATRE
@ BROOKWOOD ROOM

Low Tech Theatre: Necessity or Choice?
  Faye C. Fei, Macalester College

Technologies and Ideologies of Gender Performance on Chinese Modern Stage/Screen
  Katherine Huilung Chou, Yang Ming University, Taiwan

Technology and Costume: the Search for Authenticity Among Portuguese Folklore
  Kimberly Da Costa Holton, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF

@ GEORGIA ROOM

Auto Performance, Pop Self-Portraiture and the Surgically Enhanced:
From Andy Warhol to the "Woman Who Would Be Barbie"
 Tanya Augsburg, Georgia Institute of Technology

Autobiographical Performance: Writing A Self in Public
  Dan Bacalzo, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Performances in Process: A Technological Exchange
  Lara E. Dieckmann, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
  Jennifer S. Holmes, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

PERFORMANCES OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES AND DISPLACEMENT

@ MORNINGSIDE ROOM

Bombing the City, Broadcasting the Results:
Technology and Transformation in the Graffiti Culture of New York City
  Joe Austin, American Studies, University of Minnesota

Noise Performance and Nomadic Video
  Csaba Toth, History, Carlow College

Performing Asian-American Transnational Identity: Technologies of Seduction and Sacrifice
  Camilla Benolirao Griggers, Women's Studies, Carlow College

VIDEO VIEWING: Alienations of the Mother Tongue,
  [Dir: Griggers, 1996, 1996, 5 mins.]

Co-Chairs: Camilla Benolirao Griggers and Csaba Toth

2:40pm - 4:15pm
Plenary
PLENARY SESSION

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Transferred Agenices: Performance and the Fear of Automatism
  Jane Goodall, Humanities, University of New South Wales, Hawkesbury, Australia

Automophilia: the "Fifties" in Performance
  Elin Diamond, Rutgers University

Performing the Rites of Memory: Ronald Reagan and the Remembering of the Body Politic
  Tim Raphael, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Moderator: Jon Erickson, English, Drama and Performance Studies, Ohio State University

4:15pm - 5:00pm
Art Now
ON ARTNOW
A NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR THE ARTS
With Cindy Brizzell, General Manager of ARTNOW

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH


5:00pm - 5:30pm
Wrap Up
Moderator: Jill Dolan,
Theatre Program, CUNY Graduate Center

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH


5:30pm
Olympic Tour


6:00pm - 7:30pm
Performance
PATTY GALLAGHER

@ GEORGIA ROOM







Sunday , April 13, 1997

8am - 9:30am
Breakout
VIRTUOSIC BODIES

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

The [Black] Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop Dance and Body Power
  Thomas DeFrantz, Music and Theatre Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

XUXA: A Feminist Reading of Brazil's Answer to Femininity
  Julie Gochman, Theatre Program, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Technologies of the Virtuoso Body: Reading Renzoku
  Judith Hamera, World Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles

MIMETIC MACHINERIES

@ BROOKWOOD ROOM

Riding the Real: Technology and the Bicycle Messenger
  Ben Stewart, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Mimetic Machinery
  Maurya Wickstrom, Theatre Program, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Nonidentity Parade: Mimesis and Autonomy Among the Baader-Meinhof Group
  Christopher McGahan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

9:45am - 11:15am
Breakout
DANCE RECORDED IN STONE

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Research on the Collaboration of Modern Dance and Video
  Salley Mour, La Milagra Sirena Studios, San Francisco

Pilgrimage and the Production of Knowledge
 Marian Bleeke, University of Chicago

followed by:

WORKSHOP: MAKING LITERATURE MOVE: APPROACHING THE STAGING
OF FICTION THROUGH A MODERN DANCE AESTHETIC

Derek Goldman, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Peter Carpenter, X-Sight! Performance Group

MUSEUM THEATRE AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF EXHIBITION

@ ARDMORE ROOM

"The Pictures Move:" The Museum of Television and Radio
  Henry Bial, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Pennsylvania's Anthracite Museum Complex
  Lisa Maya Knauer, American Studies, New York University

From Wonder to War: The Age of Automatons
  Aviva Weintraub, Manager of Public Programs, The Jewish Museum

Exhibiting the Individual: Charles Rennie Macintosh at the Metropolitan
  David Woodbury, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

BRITAINS EMPIRICAL THEATRES:
CREDIT, COLONIALISM, AND GEOGRAPHY

@ BROOKWOOD ROOM

The Performance of Value: Anne Oldfield and the Credit Society
  James Peck, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

The Invention of the Middle East and the Revolution in Scenic Representation
  Edward Ziter, Dramatic Arts, University of California at Santa Barbara

Technologically Oriented: Nineteenth Century Bengali Theatre
  Sudipto Chatterjee, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Chair: Joseph Roach, English, Tulane University

SEMIOTICS OF MAGIC/MAGICAL SEMIOTICS

@ GEORGIA ROOM

Umberto Eco's "A Walk in the Semiotic Woods"
  Daniel Moser, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Performative Kabbalah: The Language of Techno Magic and the Production of Occult Knowledge
  Jason Winslade, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

13 Fugues
  Jennifer Natalya Fink, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE

@ MORNINGSIDE ROOM

Cobb County Stories: Community-Based Performances in Cobb County, Georgia
  John Gentile, Communication, Kennesaw State University
  Barbara Lebow, Playwright

Anna Deavere Smith's Performance of Community Healing
 Jane Barnette, University of Texas

11:20am - 1:00pm
Plenary and Wrap Up
GIRL TALK/GIRL TECH

@ GRAND BALLROOM NORTH

Framing the First Lady: The Emotional Excess of Hillary Clinton
  Patty Gallagher, Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Technology of Talking
  Dorothy Chansky, Theatre Arts, University of New Mexico

Queer-Lesbian Sounds in Musical Film: Barbra Streisand and Julie Andrews Sing [My] Desire
 Stacy Wolf, English and Theatre and Dance, George Washington University

Chair: Peggy Phelan Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

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