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Carlin Wing is an artist and first year doctoral student in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU. She received her AB in Visual and Environmental Studies and Social Anthropology from Harvard and her MFA in Photography and Media from CalArts. Her current work brings together three disciplines—photography, anthropology and athletics—to address colonial histories, globalization and the potential for individual bodies to assert agency within overdetermined structures. Wing has presented photography, video, installation, performance, writing and lectures in national and international contexts. Recently, she has lectured at the Birmingham Museum of Art; drafted a proposal for a collaborative MFA program in Nashville; organized Bizarre Animals, an evening of contemporary art interventions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; performed at the Media, Culture, and Communication graduate conference; and presented Hitting Walls (v.XV): Making a Ball, a ball-making workshop, at Machine Project, Los Angeles. Visit her website at http://carlinwing.net
Panel: The Multimodal Dissertation
Joshua Dickinson is a composer studying in the Media, Art, and Technology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His interests include human/computer interaction and the application of AI to the creation of music and art. Examples of his work can be seen here: Amusesmile.com
Panel: Can You Hear Me Now?: Sound and Ethnography
Jen Heuson is a scholar, traveler, and media artist currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her work critically engages the mediated production, consumption, and circulation of knowledge, culture, memory, and identity during travel, both real and imagined. Specifically, she is interested in exploring links between experience, sensation, and liveness or everydayness, on one hand, and media, epistemology, and politics, on the other. She has engaged these questions through traditional academic forms (conference, journal, thesis) and through various multimedia inquiries (sound ethnography, film documentary, radio and print journalism). Her award-winning films have screened internationally at venues as diverse as FLEX Fest, Big Muddy, Black Maria, and the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival. Her forthcoming publications include a multimedia portrait of the Black Hills (Sensate Journal of Sensory Ethnography 2011) and an acoustic biography of Martin Heidegger (Contemporary Music Review 2011). Jen holds an MA in Film and Television Studies and an MA in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam as well as a BA in Philosophy from the University of Northern Colorado. For more about Jen and her collaborative work with partner Kevin T. Allen, visit smallgauge.org.
Panel: The Multimodal Dissertation
As content developer and researcher at The SIP – Shalom Shpilman institute for photography, my main focus lies in understanding transition of knowledge through images and the impact technology has over epistemic perception. In particular, I’m researching the inherent transformation that photographed image is going through in media, technology, art, the public sphere and day-to-day lives.
I am an MA student at The Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. My thesis (advisor: Dr. Hagi Kenaan) is devoted to Jean-Luc Nancy’s conceptualization of the memory and the immemorial in the image.
I further complemented my theoretical work by initiating, producing and curating international and local art events, both as an independent entrepreneur and as the producer of MoBY – Museums of Bat Yam; an international contemporary art museum located in a struggling urban environment.
As an independent producer and curator, I also took part in conceptualizing and conceiving the international project 3 Cities against the Wall, featuring 60 artists from New York, Ramallah and Tel Aviv. During the last decade, I worked as a journalist, both as a writer and an editor, in some of Israel’s leading newspapers and online magazines.
Panel: Not Just Another Face in the Cloud: Social Networks and New Collectivity
Brigitta van Weeren (Rotterdam, 1986) is an artist and graduate student at Fine Arts Arnhem. She is interested in the transformation of the city, and the urban landscape and its scale. Her work includes installations, maps and photography. She develops public space projects and works at a project management and research office in the field of culture-based planning. bvanweeren@gmail.com | www.brigittavanweeren.com
Panel: You are (W)Here: Critical Approaches to Mapping
Roos van Haaften (Amsterdam, 1983) is an artist and researcher. She most recently studied at the University of the Arts London, where she focused on the usage of space within an urban context. In her personal work she investigates the interface between human and animal habitats. Her work includes shadow installation, drawings and work in public space. roosvanhaaften@gmail.com | www.roosvanhaaften.nl
Panel: You are (W)Here: Critical Approaches to Mapping
Pedro Juan Vidal is a video-artist based in Brooklyn, New York. With an undergraduate degree in film studies, Pedro came to study his Master’s in Film & Media Studies at the New School with an interest in cultural studies and aesthetic critique. His work explores everyday life in its construction and assemblage. Kino-Made, the project which he brings to Critical Themes, transforms the construction and assemblage of cinema into a school of thought. Kino-Made investigates the possibility of an egalitarian discourse between the the artist and spectator through the cinematic object. Vidal’s videos can be found here.
Panel: The Cinematic Experience and Memory Sense
Karl J Mendonca is an experimental filmmaker and new media artist whose research and work explores how place is defined, used and transformed. His work has shown at a number of galleries and film festivals including the The Tank, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Queens Museum of Art, the Oxford Film Festival, Stuttgart Filmwinter 2010, Jersey City Museum, Pure Project, Monkeytown (NY), and Experimenta (India). Karl was an adjunct faculty member at Eugene Lang where he taught hybrid courses on digital media theory and production.He is presently a PhD candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Panel: Can You Hear Me Now?: Sound and Ethnography
Gabriel Menotti (Brazil, 1983) is an independent critic and curator involved with different forms of cinema, contemporary art and grassroots media. He has organized pirate movie screenings, remix film festivals, videogame championships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with super8 film projectors, generative art exhibitions and academic seminars. He holds a master in Communication and Semiotics by the Catholic University of São Paulo, and his thesis (about movie theatres and VJing spaces) has received the Itaú Cultural Cybernetics Arts award. Currently, he is a PhD candidate on the Media & Communications Department of Goldsmiths College. He also has published papers in different academic journals and volumes of critical writing, such as Public and the second Video Vortex Reader. Among the most recent events in which Menotti has participated are the Artivistic festival (Canada); Medialab Prado’s Interactivos?! (Spain); the 16th International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Germany); the 29th São Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil); and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (France).
Panel: Digging Deeper: Media Archaeology