Dean Yager speaks at the beginning of the symposium.
Grant Kester is Chair and Associate Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Awake Media. Click on the Panel to sent directly to the web page. Panel 1 Panel 2 and Panel 3.Explores collaboration as a dialogic process that depends on difference and contestation as much as it does participation, the search for a common language, and cooperation. Is failure a dimension of all successful collaboration? How does the dialogic nature of collaboration herald unexpected possibilities?
Participants: Sean Fletcher & Isabel Reichert, John Jota Leaños, Michael Mateas, Gustavo Vazquez;
Moderator: Dee Hibbert-Jones; Respondent: Sharon Daniel
Maggie Morse and B Ruby Rich speak at the beginning of day two of the symposium. Also, Dee Herbert Jones introduces the first panel participants.
Considers methods and approaches that enable creative collaborations in academia and elsewhere, overcoming the exclusion of collaborative authorship from the distribution of credit and rewards, including academic tenure, and in the archiving and curating of collaborative work. Are there particular technological developments or innovative organizational frameworks that have contributed to collaborative authorship or agency?
Participants: Joline Blais, E.G. Crichton, David Evan Harris, Jon Ippolito, Marsha Kinder;
Moderator: Warren Sack; Respondent: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Presented in collaboration with the UC Santa Cruz Foundation at the Music Recital Hall, with a simulcast in the DARC Media Lab.
Explores examples of collaborative practices in the arenas of contemporary art, activism, and research. What are the successes and failures of these experiments? How can communications across disciplines and between academic sites and the public be improved?
Participants: Claudia Eipeldauer of WochenKlausur, Melissa Gwyn, Bassam Haddad, Susana Ruiz;
Moderator: Chip Lord; Respondent: Jennifer González
Sponsored by the Center for Art and Visual Studies (CAVS)
