IAWP Faculty and Student News: Feb. 2021
Despite things being what they are, IAWP has still managed to continue to grow and produce over the past semester. Below are some highlights of IAWP doings and happenings throughout fall 2020.
Following a very productive 2020 for the TECHNE Lab, the TECHNE crew (Amerika, Kim, Gallagher) are coming out of the 2021 box with their next IDMO (Imaginary Digital Media Object) in the just-released special issue of Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, focused on "."
submitted a course proposal for a class called The Body in Space to the Space Minor program, which was accepted and will be taught by her in the fall of 2021. De Koninck also completed her first-year review this past fall and is now preparing for her upcoming April residency in the B2 space by spending her Beverly Seares Graduate Student Grant on fabrics. In addition, she did a performance during the ATLAS Research Showcase where she wore a garment made of a textile she wove with dissolving threads.
participated in the online event .
received a $25,000 donation from Google to support the Media Archaeology Lab. The MAL also initiated its for work in the lab that relates to the intersection of race and technology. Emerson also developed a new undergraduate course she’s proposing to the College of Arts and Sciences called . In December, she published, “,”as part of Rhizome’s / The New Museum’s ongoing work to restore The Thing BBS. She also participated in the presentation of libi striegl’s short video, Frequency, which we aired for an event called Protected: Performing Media Archaeological Experiments that took place at the University of Luxembourg. Finally, Emerson gave a keynote presentation titled “Community x (Pedagogy + Play) at the Media Archaeology Lab'' for the MetaCulture Media Festival in Moscow, Russia.
was featured in the Daily Camera for her outdoor exhibit, Right on!, at Museum of Boulder. Her work responds to social crisis and systemic racism with 32 plaques. Eng is also running a fundraiser called Dare to Care food drive for public school students––in which local artists decorate food collection crates––in collaboration with Naropa's for brain-injured adults. She also and was awarded a Gerald C. Bean Scholarship, as well as Colorado Music Relief Funds. Finally, Eng has been invited by Leon Gallery for a solo exhibition this summer for her work .
was a virtual visiting artist at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany, and in August at John Cabot University in Rome. Her film about yellow mealworms, Tenebrio molitor, showed on Australia's TV Science channel through the end of the summer months and her new documentary, Sacred Mountain, premiered in early September in Mumbai at the Indian Cine Film Festival. The Kontejner Collective also highlighted Espelie's art in Zagreb, Croatia. Finally, Espelie curated a show, , at Union Hall in Denver that was open through Jan. 9, 2021.
gave a presentation at the Artificial Creativity conference in Malmo, Sweden, on Nov. 19 and 20 entitled “Do GPT-2s Dream of Electric Poetry?" He was also selected for an Atlas B2 residency, to be held from Feb. 22 to March 5, 2021. In addition, Gallagher completed his first-year review!
was part of the group show The Archive to Come at Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco.
Her solo exhibition, Living Lab, also opened in November at Clark College’s in Vancouver, Washington. In addition to displaying projects online, she offered a workshop titled Feeling without Touching: An Archive of Feelosophic Artefacts from the Living Lab and collaborated with virtual visitors to create intimate "feelosophic artefacts" that explore and reimagine how we language our emotions in digital spaces.
Kim's video, Cricket World, is included in the online, social VR, and in-gallery group exhibition at Telematic Media Arts. Finally, her book, Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, has been reviewed on .
PhD candidate Darija Medic participated in a debate on “the new normal” during the literary festival . She also participated in the workshop during the South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance. Finally, she participated in Belgrade’s via a panel on "Future Narratives," speaking from the position of the affiliation with the Media Archaeology Lab as a small intervention in narratives on innovation.
book, , was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Last but not least, presented a paper titled "Mapping Post-Reform Narratives: Hypertext Network as Literary Infrastructure" at the Youth Round Table as part of the Fifth-Annual Conference of Network Society, hosted by Institute of Network Society in China Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou, China. The paper will eventually be translated and published in Chinese by INS.