[ecrea] Media Fields Conference 4: Access/Trespass

> CFP:
> UCSB Media Fields Conference: Access/Trespass
> April
> 4th
> and 5th,
> 2013
> Keynote
> Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UC San
> Diego
>
> SUBMISSION
> DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 17, 2013.
>
> The
> Media Fields collective at UC Santa Barbara is excited to announce its
> fourth graduate student conference exploring the complex relationships
> between media and space. Our hope to anticipate or catalyze new
> horizons for our field has inspired the theme for our 2013 conference,
> Access/Trespass. The collective welcomes scholarly submissions engaged
> with how the idea of "trespass" might be employed to energize, expand,
> negate, or flip the idea of access. While access has been a useful
> concept for understanding rights discourses, implying a spatial
> relationship of a center to a periphery and a juridical authority that
> dispenses privilege, trespass may make more legible the outline of
> these accepted, naturalized, or enacted terms. We encourage scholarship
> that explores the tactical,
> rhetorical, or strategic deployment of “trespass” in various media
> contexts, challenging notions of who is deemed a trespasser, and
> interrogating who is calling it trespass. Papers should reflect a
> consideration of the theoretical and ethical implications of naming,
> embracing, or resisting trespass as a category. Our
> hope is to mobilize trespass in a way that reimagines the agentive
> capacity of those not "permitted" access. Indeed, trespass, whether by
> hacktivist groups like anonymous or surveillance media like TSA
> scanners, can also be thought of as a demand for access.
>
> We
> seek papers that take into account how these ideas of trespass and
> access can be discussed in the context of media studies. Guerilla
> media, appropriative media, and media piracy could all be fertile
> grounds for developing the idea of media trespass, and for
> reconsidering the
> ethical aspects of policies that define who is and is not a trespasser,
> or what activities are and are not criminalized.
> Discussions of such media could suggest a potential for a politics of
> resistance by “trespassers” who reject their marginal positioning.
> However, we also invite papers that think about trespass in terms of
> violation; for example, medical technologies such as mandatory
> transvaginal ultrasounds can position the body as a site of trespass.
> This conference aims to develop an understanding of the diverse ways
> that media objects and practices enable, work alongside, or prevent
> various forms of trespass.
>
> Potential
> topics might include:
>
> -Obscenity
> and taste; abject media
> -Identity,
> pseudonym, and identify theft; digital bodies; passing and race/gender
> -Ways
> of working around media censorship, including piracy, VPNs, etc.
> -Media
> crossing borders; smuggling media; media imperialism
> -Media
> and surveillance: drones, scanners, medical imaging
> -Dataveillance
> and information privacy
> -Hacktivism:
> media and protest
> -Transgressive
> film or media movements; border (crossing) films
> -Films
> about issues of access or trespass
> -Access
> and trespass in documentary filmmaking or journalism
> -Governmentality
> of social networks; media black-outs
> -Accessibility
> and archival studies; trespass in histories of film and media
> -Disciplinary
> trespass; boundaries of artforms
> -Interpenetration
> of media and environment; citizen activism and environmental media; GIS
> mapping and computer modeling technologies
> -Androgyneity
> or drag in film and media
> -Race,
> gender, and sexuality and access to media and media representation
> -Access
> to/trespass on media infrastructures
> -Spatial
> protocols for “new” spatial formations (e.g. Mars)
>
> Each
> panelist will have 20 minutes to present his/her paper. All submissions
> should include a 300-350 word abstract and a brief bio of the author.
> We also invite experimental presentation formats; if your presentation
> will be unconventional we ask that you provide a brief summary of your
> planned format. Submissions are due January
> 17th
> and should be emailed to (conference /at/ mediafieldsjournal.org).
>
> KEYNOTE
> SPEAKER: Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UC San
> Diego
>
> Professor
> Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater
> (EDT), which developed the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS cell phone
> safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S. border. This project as
> well as other virtual sit-ins and acts of electronic civil disobedience
> garnered Dominguez attention and sparked a federal investigation into
> his work. More recently, Dominguez launched the Performative
> Nano-Robotics Lab at UCSD's new Structural and Materials Engineering
> research center, where he is the co-curator of "Drones at Home," a year
> long Gallery@CALIT2
> exhibition
> investigating the relationship between San Diego, UCSD, and UAV
> production.



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