2015PreliminaryConfProgDraft

Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), "The Emergence of the Filing Cabinet: The Spatial and TemporalStorage of Modern Information"Shannon Mattern (The New School), "Intellectual Furnishings: Media Storage Devices as Epistemic Structures"Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland College Park), "Sand----Tables"Respondent: Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University)H2: Representations of Aging in CinemaRoom: 2Chair: E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University)Timothy Shary (Independent Scholar), "The Penultimate Road to Resolution in Elder Odyssey Movies"Nan McVitti (Northeastern Illinois University), "Ageism for Laughs: The Generational Politics of Bad Grandpa andOff Their Rockers"E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University), "Trauma and the Elderly in Film"Respondent: Lester Friedman (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)H3: Animation and Politics 1: Aesthetics and TheoryRoom: 3Chair: Suzanne Buchan (Middlesex University)Nea Ehrlich (University of Edinburgh), "(Re)Considering Realism as a Political Aesthetic in Animated Non-fiction"Eric Herhuth (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "The Aesthetics of Judgment and the Politics of Animation"Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland), "From the Mass Ornament to MASSIVE: Nature, Contingency, and theCalculated Image"Paul Morton (University of Washington, Seattle), "The Pre-political Mind of Sándor Reisenbüchler"H4: Making Habits and Breaking Habits: Moving Images in Monuments and Heavily Screened Urban MediaEnvironmentsRoom: 4Chair: Zach Melzer (Concordia University)Co-Chair: David Colangelo (Ryerson and York Universities)Zach Melzer (Concordia University), "Moving Image Real Estate: The Case of New York City’s Times Squareand Montréal’s Quartier des spectacles"Dave Colangelo (Ryerson University), "Massive Media: The New 'New Monumentality' in Urban MediaEnvironments"Annie Dell'Aria (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), "Never Forget/Never Remember: TheTexture of Media in Contemporary Memorials"Tanya Sondergaard Toft (University of Copenhagen), "Curating Criticality in Urban Digital Art Spectacles"H5: Indigenous Cinema I: Programming and PedagogyRoom: 5Chair: Angelica Lawson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)Jan-Christopher Horak (University of California, Los Angeles), "Through Indian Eyes – Programming NativeAmerican Cinema"