[FRAY] Conference

2006.05.13 [FRAY] Conference

SATURDAY MAY 13

[FRAY] Conference
SATURDAY MAY 13 @ 2 PM
Film, Video & New Media Dept @ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Room 1307 in the MacLean Building
112 S. Michigan Ave
CHI IL .US
FREE

Join [FRAY] for discussions and presentations on connective and collaborative New Media and Digital Arts with Annette Barbier (UNREAL-ESTATES and Interactive Arts and Media Department Columbia College), Ryan Griffis (The Temporary Travel Office, YOUgenics and The School of Art & Design University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana), Mark Hansen (Professor in English Language & Literature, Cinema & Media Studies; University of Chicago), Lynn Marie Kirby (California College of the Arts), PILOT TV, Rob Ray (DEADTECH and dorkbot Chicago), Lincoln Schatz (OPEN-NODE and The Upgrade! Chicago) and Daniel Tucker (AREA Chicago).

The [FRAY] Conference consists of the following discussions:

2 PM - 4 PM
Multiplicities

Ryan Griffis (The Temporary Travel Office, YOUgenics and The School of Art & Design University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana)
Rob Ray (DEADTECH and dorkbot Chicago)
Lincoln Schatz (OPEN-NODE and The Upgrade! Chicago)

The Multiplicities discussion focuses on connective + collaborative New Media + Digital Arts praxis in the context of internationalized efforts such as Ryan Griffis' The Temporary Travel Office, Rob Ray's initiation + running of dorkbot Chicago + Lincoln Schatz's development of The Upgrade! Chicago.

4 PM - 6 PM
Connectivities

Annette Barbier (UNREAL-ESTATES and Interactive Arts and Media Department Columbia College)
Mark Hansen (Professor in English Language & Literature, Cinema & Media Studies; University of Chicago)
Lynn Marie Kirby (California College of the Arts)

The Connectivities discussion directs our attention to New Media + Digital Arts projects that traverse multiple histories, theories + practices such as Annette Barbier's UNREAL-ESTATES, Mark Hansen's New Philosophy for New Media + Lynn Marie Kirby's Latent Light Excavations.

Daniel Tucker (AREA Chicago) participates in [FRAY] via an online video presentation of a discussion on AREA Chicago as a collaborative project.

[FRAY] After (Party) Event
SATURDAY MAY 13 @ 9 PM - ON
Chicago Art Department
1837 S. Halsted
CHI IL .US
FREE

The Chicago Art Department hosts the [FRAY] After (Party) Event. the [FRAY] After (Party) Event event is co-presented by the Film, Video & New Media and Performance Departments. Students of the Film, Video & New Media and Performance Departments are organizing and curating Performance Inside Out, a program of performance in the context of New Media that will take place @ the Chicago Art Department and online during the After (Party) Event.

The Chicago Art Department: http://chicagoartdepartment.org
[FRAY]: http://fvnm.info/fray

ABOUT [FRAY]

[FRAY] is a series of interwoven events organized by the Film, Video and New Media department (FVNM) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). [FRAY] is focussed on time, screen and code based experimental New Media art. [FRAY] consists of the following interrelated aspects: a conference, discussions, screenings and clusters of student initiated projects running during the Spring 2006 semester.