Graduate Student Symposium
Graduate Student Symposium
Curated by Atiya Dorsey, Yasmin Eubanks, Chris Henrriquez, and Mina Kawahara from TDPS
Image: Still from A Cyborg Anti-Porno, 2023, courtesy of MK Ford.
The Graduate Student Event portion of the Symposium highlights interdisciplinary work, from artwork to academic papers, which explores the ways in which technology enhances and expands how art performs. Graduate Student representatives of departments from across the university are showcased in these events, in an effort to build interdepartmental collaboration of thought and scholarship.
Schedule
9–9:10 am Welcome
9:10–9:25 am Installation Viewing: Sensational Machines:
The Graduate Student Exhibition puts into question how technology performs as art shifts, to ask the viewer to expand their consideration of either category. How does technology react to the moving body? Where do they converge? Our curatorial project dives deeper into the manifestation of technological collaboration. Ford, Warnken and Dai’s work considers gender and sexuality; using “queer phenomenology” and embodied technology to expand sexual and gender hybridity through film. Stauffer and Ortega Miranda explore the reproducibility of memory and human experience through mediated processes. Robinson and Baker highlight data visualization through sight and sound, offering alternative approaches to the creation and notation of performance.
9:25–10 am Graduate Student Creative Work Presentations
10–10:05 am Break
10:05–10:35 am Talkback with the Artists
Moderated by Yasmin Eubanks, Graduate Student in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland
10:35–11 am Break
11–11:40 am Graduate Student Research Presentations and Discussion
This event is part of Techno-Futures: Collaborations in Performance, Technology, and Creative Scholarship Symposium.