[Commlist] Symposium JenniCam@30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures

April 14th, 2026, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley, then a 
college student, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her 
dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley’s webcam, known as 
JenniCam, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years, becoming the 
most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not 
being recognized as a pioneer during her time, Jennifer Ringley made 
Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming.


We're meeting exactly thirty years later to celebrate JenniCam’s 
anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming 
practices. Morning and afternoon (EST) events will be transmitted at 
Jennicam-at-30.com.

Morning
10:15am-12pm – 4th Space, Concordia (LB-103)

JenniCam in Context: Keynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online), plus 
an in-situ conversation.

Afternoon
1:00pm-5pm –Speculative Life Cluster (EV-10.625), Milieux, Concordia

A pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the 
Institute of Network Cultures.

Presentations and in-situ conversations include: Tommaso Campagna on 
live streaming as a form of publishing (TheVoid.TV); Geert Lovink on the 
lives of the online self (online); Seska Lee on camming and the 
construction of liveness; Lotte de Jong on webcam and art (online); 
 Uandha Fernandes Barbosa + Aalok Sud + Tara Halkiw presenting the live 
coding performance if (afk == false) stream(); Mark Sussman introducing 
pandemic object theatre, and Jas Nasty djing live (online).

Snacks and beverages will be provided at both locations.

This event would not be possible without the generous and enthusiastic 
support of:

the Digital intimacy, Gender & Sexuality Lab (DIGS), Milieux Institute 
for Arts, Culture and Technology, Speculative Life-Machine Agencies, the 
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC), 
COMS Concordia, Institute of Network Cultures, PLSM


For more information about the event, the JenniCam, and related web 
based art, visit Jennicam-at-30.com
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