SLSA 07 Materials Repository

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Day One: Thursday, 1 November, 2007

Session 01 | Thursday, 1 November | 4pm ‚ 5.30

01.a What's in a Name?
Chair: William S. Lynn
Speaker: William S. Lynn, "Coding Wolves"
Speaker: Marion W. Copeland, "Animal Fantasies and Animal Autobiographies or Blatant Anthropomorphism? Naturalist Novels or Nature Fakers? Sentimental or Subversive?"
Speaker: Lisa G. Brown, "The Speaking Animal: Graphic Novels and the Voices of Nonhumans"

01.b Roundtable: Code Video: Image as Text
Chair: Sam Smiley
Speaker: Bebe Beard
Speaker: Danielle Georges
Speaker: Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo

01.c Coding the Brain as Cultural Organ Through Art, Diagram, and Memoir
Chair: Melissa Littlefield
Speaker: Melissa Littlefield, "'Here still be dragons': Coding Neuroscience as Ancient Cartography"
Speaker: Spencer Schaffner, "Cracking the Code of Brain Diagrams"

01.d Literature of Matter; Literature That Matters
Chair: Angela Campbell
Speaker: Varghese Mathai, "The Paradox of the Power of the Micro"
Speaker: Angela Campbell, "Georgiana Molloy and the Code of Modernity"

01.e (Word) Art and the Natural
Chair: Christopher Todd Anderson
Speaker: Håkan Sandgren, "The Code of Nature in Modern Swedish Poetry » File available
Speaker: Christopher Todd Anderson, "'To Woo the Fearful Small': From Invertebrates to Microbes in Contemporary American Poetry"
Speaker: Mara Adamitz Scrupe, "Survival Principle: the Art of Nurturing Nature"

01.f Cyborg Monsters, Literary Hoaxes, and the MiB: from the Saucerian Archives of Gray Barker
Chair: Sandy Baldwin
Speaker: Sandy Baldwin, "The Great Hoax: Gray Barker's saucerian writings and the limit of techno-scientific discourse"
Speaker: Nick Perich, "They Knew Too Much: The Men in Black and the Ends of Knowledge"
Speaker: Nick Hales, "How to Make a Myth: The Flatwoods Monster as Cyborg"
Speaker: Alan Sondheim, "Gray's Anatomy: How to make a flying saucer" » audio recording of talk re: saucer presentation
Respondent: Rich Doyle

01.g Codes, Mediality and the Deleuzean Differential
Chair: Vera Bühlmann
Speaker: Vera Bühlmann, "inhabiting media"
Speaker: Klaus Wassermann, "The Dimensions of Meta=reading Gertrude Stein with Gilles Deleuze"

01.h Elements of Poetry
Chair: Ellen Moll
Speaker: Katherine Bash, "Perceptual Poetry: The Case of Janus Shade"
Speaker: Douglas Basford, "'It won't be easy and can't be a pleasure': Aaron Kunin's Binary Hand-Alphabet Translations of Pound and Maeterlinck"
Speaker: Ellen Moll, "Mathematics and Metaphor in the Poetry of Sherman Alexie"
Speaker: Annie Finch, "The Metrical Code: Poetry's Wordless Language"

Session 02 | Thursday, 1 November | 5.45 ‚ 7.15

02.a Literature and/as New Media
Chair: Pawel Frelik
Speaker: Edmond Chang, "'How ya doin', mon?': Coding and Coded Race in World of Warcraft"
Speaker: Paul Youngman, "Pulling History or Pushing an Agenda? Twentieth-Century German History and the World Wide Web in Erich Loest's Reichsgericht (Supreme Court)" » Conference paper
Speaker: Kimberly De Vries, "Coding Reality: From the Spells of Neil Gaiman to the Programs of Second Life"

02.c Just the Same Old Song: Technology, Communication, and Gender
Chair: Ann McClellan
Speaker: Evelyn Stiller, "Breaking the Code: Are Women's Voices Heard Online?"
Speaker: Cathie LeBlanc, "Coding Women: Female Avatars in Online Communities"
Speaker: Ann McClellan, "Of Mouse and (Wo)Man?: Decoding the Masculine and Encoding the Feminine in Hypertext Theory"

02.d Global Warming, Hurricane Katrina, and Aerial Navigation: Excursions in Green Science Studies
Chair: Robert Markley
Speaker: Sidney Perkowitz, "Temperature Sensors: Cultural Indicators of Global Warming on Screen"
Speaker: Robert Markley, "Climate Change, Techno-Fixes, and Systems Theory"
Speaker: Bart H. Welling, "Coding the Storm: Hurricane Katrina and the Rise of Twenty-First Century Hurricane Discourse"
Speaker: Denice Turner, "Remapping the Earth: Aerial Codes and Human Perception of the Physical World"

02.e Automata and Enchantment in Early Modern English Literature
Chair: Wendy Hyman & Justin Kolb
Speaker: Justin Kolb, "'What fine chisel could ever yet cut breath?': The Technology of Character in The Winter's Tale" » Conference paper
Speaker: Erin Labbie, "Historical Materialism and Automata in Volpone"
Speaker: Wendy Hyman, ""Mathematical experiments of long silver pipes': The Renaissance Trope of the Mechanical Bird"

02.f On the Animated and the Automated: Genealogies of Life, Media, and Duration
Chair: Orit Halpern
Co-Chair: Rob Mitchell
Speaker: Orit Halpern, "'On the Malevolent Vitality of Inanimate Objects': Temporality, Abstraction, and Difference in Art, Anthropology, and Cybernetics"
Speaker: Robert Mitchell, "Vitality, Digitality, and the 'Newness' of Media"
Speaker: Inga Pollmann, "Abstract Life: Hans Richter"
Speaker: Phillip Thurtle, "Biology Beyond the Fold: The temporal Virtuosity of the Animated Gene"

02.h Rhetoric of Science
Chair: Sean Miller
Speaker: Travis Williams, "Mathematical Tales: The Failure of Narrative in Early Modern Arithmetic"
Speaker: Sean Miller, "Substantiating Strings: String Theory Popularizations and the Domestication of the Planck Scale" » Supplementary material on string theory imaginaries | » Powerpoint presentation

02.i Recoding the Posthuman: Genetics, Language, and Animal Rights
Chair: John Bruni
Speaker: Jon Paulson, "Cryptids, Cyborgs and the Malleability of Being"
Speaker: Karalyn Kendall, "Dogs and Masters: Beckett, Levinas, and Posthumanist Ethics"
Speaker: John Bruni, "Posthuman Languages and Animal Rights in Jack London's Dog Novels" » Conference paper

Opening Reception | 9pm ‚ 10.30

Day Two: Friday, 2 November, 2007

Session 03 | Friday, 2 November | 8.30 ‚ 10am

03.a Non-Human Animals and Racial Formation in the United States
Chair: Brett Mizelle
Speaker: Brett Mizelle, "Racial Codes in Representations of Non-Human Primates: Animals, Slavery and Racial Formation in Post-Revolutionary America"
Speaker: Christopher Geissler, "'From the loins of a horse': Breeding Between the Lines of American Nationhood, 1805-1833"
Speaker: Rebecca Onion, "Re-articulating the Native, Claiming the Human: Man-Dog Relationships in the New American North"
Speaker: Karla Armbruster, "Re-Coding Race through the Discourse of Animality in Toni Morrison's Novels"

03.b ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The SUBONE Urban Murals Project
Chair: Jan Piribeck
Speaker: Jan Piribeck » Online materials available
Speaker: Tim Clorius
Speaker: Chris Thompson

03.c Cartographies Without Organs
Chair and Respondent: Sandy Baldwin
Speaker: Thomas Zummer, "Interstitial Cartographies"
Speaker: Patrick Lichty, "SL Performance Art as Technosomatic: Performing the Virtual Viscera"
Speaker: Alan Sondheim, "This Real Here Performance Trip" » recording of talk on avatars

03.d Cyberconformity, Cyberperversity
Chair: Michael G. Bennett
Speaker: Benjamin J. Robertson, "Second Nature and/in the Networked Society or, Cultural Production's Limiting Present"
Speaker: Michael G. Bennett, "Codes Legal, Cyberspatial and Molecular in an Age of Technoscientific Adolescence"

03.e 20th C. Literary Codes
Chair: Kerstin Bergman
Speaker: Randy Laist, "Enter the Code: Cybernetic Aspirationism in Don DeLillo's White Noise" » Online materials available | » File available
Speaker: Kerstin Bergman, "Codes and Deciphering in Crime Fiction: The Dan Brown Examples"
Speaker: Luis F. Garcia, "Coding and Decoding Scientific Knowledge as a Discursive Tool of Magic Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez"

03.f Inscribed Bodies
Chair: Cynthia Current
Speaker: Cara Ogburn, "Material Embodiment: Shelley Jackson's 'Skin' Project and the Body as Page"
Speaker: Cynthia Current, "'Liminal Lives': Fingerprints, Genomics, and the Disruption of Identity in Mark Twain and Octavia Butler"

03.g Poetry by Other Means
Chair: Arndt Niebisch
Speaker: Braxton Soderman and Daniel Howe, "The Aesthetics of Generative Literature: Lessons from an Electronic Writing Workshop"
Speaker: Claudia Schlee-Giardina, "Poetry as Compass: Chaos, Complexity and the Creative Voice"
Speaker: Arndt Niebisch, "Cryptopoetics. Writing as Noise"

03.h Text and Image: Decoding a Galaxy of Signifiers
Chair: Frenchy Lunning
Speaker: Michael Filas, "Coding the Posthuman: Stelarc Versus Warwick"
Speaker: Frenchy Lunning, "Japanese Manga and the Codes of Transnational Desire"
Speaker: Despina Kakoudaki, "Objects and the Internet"
Speaker: Shari Jill Clark, "Welcome to the Machine: Lang's Linguistic Coding in Metropolis"

Session 04 | Friday, 2 November | 10.30 ‚ 12 noon

04.a Animal Noises
Chair: Lucinda Cole
Speaker: Una Chaudhuri, "Becoming Bird: Code Conversion as Interspecies Performance in two recent 'Avianworks.'"
Speaker: David Rothenberg, "Cracking the Code of Humpback Whale Song by Trying to Join In"
Speaker: Lucinda Cole, "Renaissance Physiognomy and Animal Speech"

04.b Decoding the Occult: Alchemy, Art, and Science
Chair: Mark Morrisson
Speaker: M. E. Warlick, "Decoding Alchemical Diagrams"
Speaker: James W. McManus, "Marcel Duchamp = Shadows and Veils: not seen and/or less seen, constructing the androgyne"
Speaker: Peter Mowris, "Mystical Formalism: Occult Theories of Visualization in the Work of Henri Focillon"
Speaker: Mark Morrisson, "Spiritual Alchemy and Nineteenth-Century Sciences of the Mind"

04.c Communication Through Images
Chair: Sarah Lowe
Speaker: Sarah Lowe, "The Visual Language of Technology"
Speaker: Jaime Snyder, "Drawing conclusions: Bridging communication gaps with visualizations"

4.d Knowing the Body
Chair: Jennifer Burris
Speaker: Maaike Bleeker, "Living the code, moving along: dys-embodiment and corporeal literacy "
Speaker: Ronald Schleifer, "Intangible Materialism: The Semiotics of Pain"
Speaker: Jennifer Burris, "Decoding the Subject: Parallels in Psychopharmacogenomics and Contemporary Visual Art"

04.e Code as Media III: machinima, virtual worlds + commons aesthetics
Chair: Beth Coleman
Speaker: Amber Frid-Jimenez, "OpenStudio and other commons-based Web Art"
Speaker: Beth Coleman, "Virtual World Primer: design and use 1.0"
Speaker: Henry Lowood, "Code vs. Object, Replay vs. Capture, Demo vs. Video: Modes and Cultures of Production in Machinima"

04.f Decoding Richard Powers? I
Chair: Jay Labinger
Speaker: Hugh Crawford, "DIY AI: the Ontology of Sentience, the Concrescence of Sapience"
Speaker: Steven Meyer, "'A Total Cipher': Toward an Algebraic Model of Science Studies"
Speaker: Joan Richardson, "Resounding Invisibility"

04.g Art and DNA
Chair: Jessica Luck
Speaker: Jessica Luck, "Writing in Code: The Embodied Autopoietics of Ammons's Long Poems" » Conference paper
Speaker: Geoffrey Hlibchuk, "The Poetics of Junk: On the Noncoding Function of Language in Contemporary Poetry"

04.h What is an operative image?
Convener: Gregory Bringman
Chair: Christopher Burnett
Speaker: Christopher Burnett, "Pictorial Automata and the Operative Image: implications for visual studies"
Speaker: Gregory Bringman, "The Unconscious Semantics of Letterforms: Language Sign Transformation and its Operative Artifacts" » Longer Version-Edited
Speaker: Henry S. Turner, "Naming, Acting, Doing: Toward a Dramatology of the Operative Image"
Speaker: Kevin LaGrandeur, "Networks, Function, and Form in Aristotle's Justification of Slavery"

04.i Theories of Mind
Chair: Hans-Jakob Wilhelm
Speaker: Arkady Plotnitsky, "Reencodings: Neurobiology, Lingustics, and the Translational Concept of Information"
Speaker: Hans-Jakob Wilhelm, "Perceptual Content and Philosophy of Mind"
Speaker: Marcel O'Gorman, "Code Resistance: Physical Computing and the Return of Meat"

Session 05 | Friday, 2 November | 1.30 ‚ 3pm

05.a Cross-Breeding Freaks
Chair: Stephanie S. Turner
Speaker: Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira, "Codes and Genomes: (Re)Editing Humanity?"
Speaker: Stephanie S. Turner, "Code-breaking Cryptids"
Speaker: Eva Hayward, "Prefixial Flesh and other Metaplasms"

05.b Algorithmic Arts
Chair: Brian Evans
Speaker: Anat Pollack, "Transgressing the Machine "
Speaker: Dale Syphers, "Coding Works of Art as Dynamic Quantum Mechanical Systems"
Speaker: Brian Evans, "Mapping Data: Coding Signals: Making Metaphors, (a statement of a digital artist)" » artist website

05.c Images of the World
Chair: Thomas Cornell
Speaker: Amy Clary, "Wild Images: Simulation and Scopophilia on the 'Last Frontier'"
Speaker: Scot Wittman, "Maps as Art and Science"
Speaker: Thomas Cornell, "Designing the New World Picture"
05.d Early Modern Blood
Chair: Eve Keller
Speaker: Alvin Snider, "Blood, Bloodlines, and National Identity"
Speaker: Eve Keller, "'That Sublimest Juyce in our Body': Blood and Blood-Letting in Late Seventeenth-Century England"
Speaker: Richard Nash, "Why does the Blood-Horse Bleed?"

05.e Poetics of Code
Chair: Zabet Patterson
Speaker: John Cayley, "poetics = code ? ((who ? writes : what) & (who ? reads : what)) : ((writes ? who : what) & (reads ? who : what));" » 46Mb mpeg4 illustrated recording of the presentation
Speaker: Mark Wolff, "Remedial Computation: The Oulipo and the Materiality of Code"
Speaker: Zabet Patterson, "Code and the 'Linguistic Turn' in Art"

05.f Multimedia Scholarship: Theory and Practice
Convener: Helen J. Burgess
Chair: Jeanne Hamming
Speaker: Jeanne Hamming, "A Manifesto for Cyborg Scholars; Or, the Institutional Emergence of Multimedia Scholarship"
Speaker: Helen J. Burgess, "Steal This Multimedia: Information Ownership and the Anxiety of Genre" » File available
Speaker: Timothy J. Menzies, "Multi-implications of multi-dimensional authoring: or, everything you wanted to know about geek herding, but were afraid to ask" » Online materials available

05.g Decoding Richard Powers? II
Chair: Jay Labinger
Speaker: Amy Charles, "Richard Powers and the Scientists' Code" » File available
Speaker: Joe Duemer, "Programming Introduction to Literature"
Speaker: Jay Labinger, "'What could be simpler?' The complicated question of simplicity in science"

05.h Scifi +
Chair: Gundela Hachmann
Speaker: Sue Hagedorn and Cheryl Ruggiero, "Slavery and Sexuality in Butler and LeGuin"
Speaker: Gundela Hachmann, "Quantum Mechanics of Memory: The Uncertainty Principle in Helmut Krausser's UC"
Speaker: Pawel Frelik, "Heirs of carbon=encoded humans in contemporary science fiction"

05.i (De)coding
Chair: David Hogsette
Speaker: Matthew Holtmeier, "Code, Schizophrenia, and Tetralinguistics: Exposing the Minor Literature of Titus"
Speaker: David Hogsette, "Decoding Transhumanism: Human Revaluation in Neuromancer and The Diamond Age"
Speaker: Anna Botta, "Decoding Complexity"

Session 06 | Friday, 2 November | 3.30 ‚ 5pm

06.a Designing Animals
Chair: Carol Gigliotti
Speaker: Abigail Mann, "Dog's Code/God's Code?: Designer Dogs as a Cultural Symbol"
Speaker: Carol Gigliotti, "Code t Informatics t Animals"
Speaker: Susan Nance, "A Star is Born to Buck: The Codes and Commerce of North American Rodeo Bull Breeding Technologies, 1990-2007" » Online materials available

06.b Art and Affect
Chair: Tara Rodgers
Speaker: Tara Rodgers, "'The "Now" for the First and Last Time': The Convergence of Cybernetics, Early Computer Music, and Countercultural Critique in the Work of Herbert Brun"
Speaker: Jonas Williams, "Extra-Intentional Development: Photography, Variety, and Memory Intervention"
Speaker: Joy James and Glen Lowry, "Working to Code: Forensic Affect, Post-Identity Politics, and the Work of Larissa Lai & Rebecca Belmore"

06.c Against Embodiment (or, Embodiment and its Discontents) I
Chair: Bernard Geoghegan
Speaker: Bernard Michael Dionysius Geoghegan, "Against Embodiment: Gesture, Technics and Embodied Conversational Agents"
Speaker: Amanda Taylor, "(Re)Configuring Ourselves and Others: Subjectivity, Information, and Embodiment in Matt Groening's Futurama"
Speaker: Anna Munster, "Embodiment Reconsidered: A re-embodied virtual presentation"
Respondent: Mark Hansen

06.d Health codes
Chair: Elizabeth Mazzolini
Speaker: Jenell Johnson, "From Housewives to Zombies: Representations of Lobotomy in the Popular Press, 1936-1956"
Speaker: Lisa Hermsen, "Cogs, Codes, and Neuroethics"
Speaker: Elizabeth Mazzolini, "Hidden codes: prion diseases and unknown transmissions"

06.e Code as Argument
Chair: Ian Bogost
Speaker: Nick Montfort & Michael Mateas, "Hammurabi's Code" » Hammurabi, from Ahl's Basic Computer Games
Speaker: Ian Bogost, "Procedural Rhetoric: Code as Argument"
Speaker: Mark Marino, "Encoding Terrorism: Applying Critical Code Studies to Command and Control Code" » Critical Code Studies blog

06.f Scifi ¨
Chair: Michael Klein
Speaker: Laura Wiebe Taylor, "Killing Technology and Cyborgs with Souls: The Threat and Promise of Technoscience in the Science Fiction Metal of Voivod and Fear Factory" » File available
Speaker: Michael Klein, "Deciphering the Code: Science Fiction Literature and the Human Cloning Debate"
Speaker: Michael Simeone, "The Mind On Screen: Gadgets, Posthumanism, Video Codes in Adaptations of Philip K. Dick's Short Fiction"

06.g De/coding Women in Medical, Legal, and Labor Narratives, 1840-1914
Chair: Matthew Anderson
Speaker: Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, "'Fear is a Folly which Departs with One's Virtue': Bodies as Code in Fitzallen's Maine Factory Girl Fiction"
Speaker: Cathrine O. Frank, "'Let the Experiment Be Made on the Vile Body': Tattoos, Women, and Victorian Legal Code"
Speaker: Jennifer S. Tuttle, "Recoding the Chinese Body: Health, Illness, and Race in the Work of Sui Sin Far"

06.h Robots & Zombies
Chair: Nick Knouf
Speaker: Eleanor Sandry, "Machine codes in conversations with embodied emotional robots"
Speaker: Nick Knouf, "The vocal that is non-speech: externalizing the unspeakable through interactions with a robotic creature"
Speaker: Jentery Sayers, "You're Code! You Really Are Code! Or, Zombies, Control, and the Digital Body" » Online materials available

Reception | 5pm ‚ 6pm

Plenary I: N. Katherine Hayles | 6pm ‚ 7.15

"Intermediation: A Theoretical Framework for Code and Electronic Literature"

Day Three: Saturday, 3 November, 2007

Session 07 | Saturday, 3 November | 8.30 ‚ 10am

07.a Mathematics and the Fourth Dimension in Modern Art and Literature
Chair: Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Speaker: Kirsten Hoving, "Decoding the Dimensions of Space and Time in Joseph Cornell's Late Collages"
Speaker: Linda Dalrymple Henderson, "The Spatial 'Fourth Dimension' versus Space-Time at Mid-Century: Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Smithson"

07.b Tech Changes Bodies I
Chair: M. A. Greenstein
vSpeaker: M. A. Greenstein, "The Future Body"
Speaker: Adam Frank, "Strange Intimations: Gertrude Stein and the Invention of Television"
Speaker: Paul Lai, "One, Two: Conjoined Twins, the Self, and Medical Technology"

07.c Computer, Language, Thought
Chair: Amit Ray
Speaker: Zach Blas, "TransCoder: Queer Programming Anti-Language"
Speaker: Daniel Howe and Bill Seaman, "Coding Creativity: Generative Models of Associative Thought in the 'Bisociation Engine' and 'Architecture of Association'"
Speaker: Amit Ray, "Universal Coding?: Wikipedia, Free Software and Encyclopedic Babel"

07.d Gaia@2007 I: Theoretics
Chair: Bruce Clarke
Speaker: Bruce Clarke, "Margulis's Gaia: The Autopoietic Planet"
Speaker: Steve Norwick, "Gaian Science: Achievements and Challenges from the Geological Modeling Perspective"
Speaker: Eileen Crist, "Earth Systems Theorizing and Anthropogenic Climate Change: A Critique of the Apocalyptic Paradigm"
Respondent: Lynn Margulis

07.e Classics Decoded
Chair: Steve Mentz
Speaker: Jason Buchanan, "Roguewords, Monkwords, and Useless Words: James Joyce's Linguistic Coding of Death"
Speaker: Steve Mentz, "Compass as Code in The Faerie Queene"
Speaker: T. Anne Metivier, "I Can't Believe It's Not Hamlet! Artificial Intelligence as Substitute for the 'Real' Thing"

07.f Coded Modernism
Chair: Sam Schwartz
Speaker: Sam Schwartz, "The Martial Codes of Modernist Avant Gardism"
Speaker: Marta Stone, "Praxis Recoded: The Vorticist response to Futurism"
Speaker: Anne Brubaker, "Fear and Loathing in Mathematization: Math Anxiety in Modernist Fiction and Drama"

07.g The Ontology of Code
Chair: Patricia Ticineto Clough
Speaker: Greg Goldberg, "Analog/Digital: measure, information, and surplus-value"
Speaker: Jamie "Skye" Bianco, "'Skins' and Code: the Subtension of ARG's and Viral Marketing"
Speaker: Craig Willse, "Psychiatry and its code of ethics, or bioethics as code"

07.h SLSA Creative Writers Read, Session I
Presider: Sue Hagedorn
Speaker: Wayne Miller, reading from The Bog Monster of Booker Creek » Recording (MP3 format)
Speaker: Sue Hagedorn & Cheryl Ruggiero, work in progress set in the Catalyst Trilogy universe
Speaker: Janine DeBaise, "Dripping with Marsh Mud"
Speaker: Amy Charles, "Thirty White Horses" » File available

07.i Technical Life
Chair: Mark Hansen
Speaker: Eugene Thacker, "Pathological Immanence"
Speaker: Mark Hansen, "Living Movement"
Speaker: John Protevi, "Developmental Systems Theory: Embodied and Embedded Biology"

Session 08 | Saturday, 3 November | 10.30 ‚ 12 noon

08.a Animals and Ethics
Chair: David Dillard-Wright
Speaker: Annie Potts, "Totem Transformations in Animal Tragic"
Speaker: Cary Wolfe, "(Un)Thinking Animals"
Speaker: Jonathan Burt & Jennifer Boyd, "Vivisection and cross-species codes of conduct"

08.b Cartoon Images
Chair: Phillip Thurtle
Speaker: Ellen Grabiner, "Wild About the Box: The Disruptions of Zippy the Pinhead"
Speaker: N.C. Christopher Couch, "The Geometry of Emotion: Doorways in Will Eisner's Comics"
Speaker: Claudia X. Valdes & Phillip Thurtle, "From Spiderman to Alba: Transgenics in a Post-Nuclear World"

08.c Biopolitics and Code
Chair: Thomas Lamarre
Speaker: Patricia Ticineto Clough, "Rethinking Autopoeisis: 'Languaging' and Coding"
Speaker: Sha Xin Wei, "Morphogenesis and Biopolitics"
Speaker: Thomas Lamarre, "The Ontology of Code"
Discussant: Brian Massumi » Massumi - The Architectural Manifold

08.d Reconfiguring Subjectivity
Chair: Mark Bartlett
Speaker: Lisa Swanstrom, "Self versus Cell.f: Coding Identity and Mourning Subjectivity in Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia"
Speaker: Jason Embry, "The Defeat of Cohesion in Snow Crash" » The Defeat of the big Other in Stephenson's Snow Crash
Speaker: Mark Bartlett, "From Fantasy to Imagination: Trans-Coding Lacan's equation: $>a"

08.e Secret Decoder Ring: Using Science Fiction Studies to Interpret the New Technocultural Millennium
Chair: Lisa Yaszek
Speaker: Doug Davis, "SF Narratives of Mass Destruction and the Politics of National Security"
Speaker: Patrick Sharp, "Saving Private Jessica: Gender, Technology, and the Military Damsel in Distress"
Speaker: Lisa Yaszek, "Afrofuturism versus the Futures Industry"

08.f Utopian Visual Culture: Recoding Science, Society, and Self in Electronic Media
Chair: Chris Van Acker
Speaker: Chris Van Acker, "Changing The Face of Television: Subversive Sex and Gender Identity Politics in Nip/Tuck"
Speaker: Jason Ellis, "Subversion of the Self in the Battlestar Galactica Re-Imaging" » Online materials available | » File available
Speaker: Andrew Pilsch, "Utopia.com: Piracy and Fredric Jameson Online" » Online materials available

08.g SLSA Creative Writers Read, Session II
Presider: Sue Hagedorn
Speaker: Victoria N. Alexander, "The Narrative: A Message Without a Sender" » Online materials available
Speaker: Steven J. Oscherwitz, "Heidegger and Husserl at a Contemporary Art/Technoscience Interface: A Painter's Interpretation" » Reading recording (mp3 format) | » Images from presentation
Speaker: Joseph Duemer, "A Poetic Encounter of Science and Arts"

Business Lunch | 12 noon ‚ 1.30

Session 09 | Saturday, 3 November | 1.30 ‚ 3pm

09.a Beasts of Nature
Chair: April Kiser
Speaker: Philip Armstrong, "Feral animals as code-breakers"
Speaker: Lawrence Mastroni, "Western Adaptation and Domestication of Dogs: Signposts of Cultural Superiority in American Periodical Literature, 1850-1900"
Speaker: April Kiser, "'Describing the true and lively figure of every beast:' The Usefulness of images in Edward Topsell's Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes"

09.b MECA

09.c Roundtable on Allegra Goodman's Intuition
Chair: Carol Colatrella
Speaker: Celeste Goodridge
Speaker: Jay Labinger
Speaker: Mary Frank Fox
Speaker: Mita Choudhury

09.e Language and Linguistics
Chair: Nanette Veilleux
Speaker: Nanette Veilleux, "Prosody in Spoken Language: Full codebook not included"
Speaker: Nancy Barta-Smith, "Through the Lens of Transcoding: Linda Hutcheon's A Theory of Adaptation and Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow"
Speaker: Raymond Miller, "Do as I Say, and Write as You Speak: Alphabet as Nationalist Code in Early 19th-Century Austria"

09.f Values of Order in Nature
Chair: Anthony Lioi
Speaker: Anthony Lioi, "Stupid Ontology Tricks, or, The Code Of Unknowing"
Speaker: Mike Clody, "The Code of Nature: Secret and Translation in Bacon"

09.g Undergraduate Roundtable II
Chair: Susan McHugh
Speaker: Ty Gowen
Speaker: Michael Ardolino
Speaker: Tahira Khalid
Speaker: Philip Woram, "Lessons from Complex Systems on the Edge of Chaos"
peaker: Daniel Herrick
Speaker: Gwendolyn Tatro

Session 10 | Saturday, 3 November | 3.30 ‚ 5pm

10.a Animals in (Techno)culture
Chair: Sherryl Vint
Speaker: Sherryl Vint, "Recoding Human and Animal: Weird Animal Stories in Fast, Cheap and Out of Control"
Speaker: Jeff Karnicky, "'Included in this classification': Encoding American Birds"
Speaker: Jim Ramey, "Parasitic Codes and the Human Phenotype"

10.b The Power of the Image
Chair: Kevin Chua
Speaker: Rolando Pérez, "Severo Sarduy on Kepler, Borromini, and the Anamorphic Image"
Speaker: Kevin Chua, "Gros and the Napoleonic Code of War"
Speaker: Elizabeth A. Kessler, "Codes of Realism in Contemporary Art and Science"

10.c Climate, Cold, and Melancholy
Chair: Robert Markley
Speaker: Alvin Snider, "Hard Frost, 1684"
Speaker: Robert Markley, "'Casualties and Disasters': Defoe and the Interpretation of Climactic Instability"
Speaker: Eric Gidal, "Climate and Melancholy in Early Social Theory"

10.d Formalisms of Code
Chair: Braxton Soderman
Speaker: David Parry, "Comments: Managing the Ambiguity of Code"
Speaker: Trey Conner, "The Protos Chronos and the Figure of Compression: Code and Coda" » Wiki pages (contact author for edit password)
Speaker: Braxton Soderman, "The Programming of Language: Code, Execution, Motivation"
Speaker: Christian Ulrik Andersen, "The Live Coding of Slub=art oriented programming as media critique" » personal webpage | » File available

10.e Microethics and Nanoculture: Media of the Tiny
Chair: Peter Schwenger
Speaker: Michael G Bennett, "Studying Societal Implications through Nanofiction"
Speaker: Peter Schwenger, "The Micro-Sublime"

10.f Code Dynamics: Reading Movement, Watching Text: Ten Years of E-Poetry Co-Authored by Stephanie Strickland
Chair: Sandy Baldwin
Speaker: Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, "Strickland's Quantum Poetics" » Online materials available
Speaker: Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, "Presentation of slippingglimpse, a new Flash work by Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, with video by Paul Ryan"

10.g Babel Reversed: Universal Languages, Visible Knowledge and the Book of Nature in the Early Modern Anglosphere
Chair: Sarah Rivett
Speaker: Rhodri Lewis, "'To Deliver the Natures of Things': Aristotle, Artificial Languages and the Image of the World in seventeenth-century England"
Speaker: Sarah Rivett, "Christian Translations: Indian Grammar and the Quest for a Universal Language in the British Atlantic World"
Speaker: James J. Bono, "Paradise Regained: Technologies of the Literal, the Book of Nature, and the 17th Century Poetics of Repairing the Fall and Babel"

010.h Code Play
Chair: Dene Grigar
Speaker: J. James Bono, "Cheat Codes: The Limits of Close Reading in Digital Games Analysis"
Speaker: Dene Grigar, "Mindful Games: Play Environments, Cognition, and Embodiment" » The MINDful Play Environment | » SLSA 07 Presentation
Speaker: Gregory Garvey, "The Half-Real Borders of the Info Cloud"

10.i Science v Philosophy
Chair: Kim Evans
Speaker: Isabella Winkler, "The Undecidability Principle"
Speaker: Kim Evans, "A Machine For Becoming Decent: Wittgenstein's Philosophy-as-Algorithm"
Speaker: Paul Sukys, "The Metanarrative Reborn: The Unification of Enlightenment and Postmodern Ideas"

Reception | 5.15 ‚ 6.15

Plenary II: Brian Massumi | 6.15 ‚ 7.30

"Signs of Danger: The Political Ontology of Threat" » Massumi - Affective Fact

Day Four: Sunday, 4 November, 2007

Session 11 | Sunday, 4 November | 8.30 ‚ 10am

11.a Problems of New Media Art
Chair: Katherine Behar
Speaker: Kimberly Knight, "Outlaw Code: The Viral in Koji Suzuki's Ring Trilogy"
Speaker: Katherine Behar, "R/W/X: (read/write/execute): Materiality of Code and Questions of Representation in New Media Art" » personal website

11.b Against Embodiment (or, Embodiment and its Discontents) II
Chair: Bernard Geoghegan
Speaker: Michael Tondre, "George Eliot's 'Fine Excess': The Physics of Feeling in Middlemarch"
Speaker: Jennifer Jackson, "Code Blue: Anxious Embodiment in Michel Houllebecq's The Possibility of an Island"
Speaker: Jakub Zdebik, "A Material Theory of Incarnation: The Surface Aesthetics of Francis Bacon and Marcel Proust"

11.c Sensation and Technology
Chair: Mara Mills
Speaker: Susanne Ramsenthaler, "Mind the Gap: On Distance and Representation"
Speaker: Mara Mills, "The Artificial Larynx and the Vocoder, or, Disability and Being-Digital"

11.d Code, Connotation, Community
Chair: Jeremy Kessler
Speaker: Elizabeth Wilson, "Artificial minds and the machinery of affectivity: The case of Walter Pitts"
Speaker: Jeremy Kessler, "A Telescope, Not a Spade: The Cambridge Language Research Unit, Machine Translation, and the Language of Science"
Speaker: Iain Matheson, "Ontologised Cryptanalysis And Praxical Ethics" » Full Paper

11.e Code/X
Convener: Daniel Rosenberg
Chair: Jonathan Sheehan
Speaker: Daniel Rosenberg, "The Right Eye of History"
Speaker: Daniel Selcer, "Encoded Matter and the Ontology of the Page in Bayle's Dictionnaire"
Speaker: Michael Witmore, "Chance and Complexity in the Early Modern Book"

11.f Code Poetics
Chair: Karen Leona Anderson
Speaker: Karen Leona Anderson, "Moore's Type Species and Zoological Codes"
Speaker: Sally Keith, "Inger Christensen's IT"
Speaker: Bin Ramke, "Poetry as The Unknowable"
Speaker: Jasper Bernes, "Micropoetics"

11.h Behind the Genetic Code
Chair: Hervé-Pierre Lambert
Speaker: Hervé-Pierre Lambert, "Jeremy Narby, 'hypothesis' on a link between the genetic code and shamanic knowledge : a contribution to the contemporary imaginary about the genetic code"
Speaker: Laura Balladur, "A Secret Code: Charles Bonnet and Eighteenth Century Proto-Biology"
Speaker: David Bering-Porter, "The Recessive Trait: Mendelian Secrets and the Dangerous Cipher of Life"

Session 12 | Sunday, 4 November | 10.30 ‚ 12 noon

12.a Arts Use Biomatter
Chair: Adam Zaretsky
Speaker: Seth Ellis, "The Alchemical Body: Descriptions of the Body as the Body"
Speaker: Stephanie L. Taylor, "Max Ernst's Painted 'Microbes': The Desert in a Grain of Sand"
Speaker: Adam Zaretsky, "The Mutagenic Arts" » ON THE MUTAGENIC ARTS
12.b Visual Reframings of the Genetic Code
Chair: Miriam van Rijsingen
Speaker: Anne Kienhuis, "Imagining Genomics, Introducing Visuality in the Genomics Debate"
Speaker: Ellen ter Gast, "Presenting the Monsters of Biotechnology, on the Morality of Bioart"
Speaker: Danielle Hofmans, "Breeding Life into Art/ Breathing Art into Life"
Speaker: Miriam van Rijsingen, "Code, Code on the Wall...a spatial Reframing" » Conference paper and slides

12.c Politics of Bios
Chair: Brian Duff
Speaker: Karen Weingarten, "Margaret Sanger's The Birth Control Review and the Codes of Racialized Reproduction"
Speaker: Brian Duff, "Family Talk in American Politics"

12.d Gaia@2007 II: Aesthetics
Chair: Bruce Clarke
Speaker: Steve Norwick, "The Rhetorical Effects of Holistic Nature Metaphors in Lovelock's Gaia Discourse"
Speaker: Nathan Currier, "A New Science for a New Aesthetics"

12.e Science Writing and Writing Science
Chair: Karl Zuelke
Speaker: Allison Dushane, "Bioliterary Code: The Human Condition and Faustian Narrative in Atwood's Oryx and Crake"
Speaker: Karl Zuelke, "Translating Science: Epideictic Celebration in Quammen, Weiner and Angier"

12.g Making Poems from Parts
Chair: Mary Newell
Speaker: Sharon Lattig, "Poetic [de]Coding: Deictic Emergence in the Neuroscience of Perception"
Speaker: Jonathan Skinner, "Animal Machines: (Eco)Poetics for an Age of Extinctions"
Speaker: Mary Newell, "Germinal Code, Autopoiesis, and Contemporary Poetics"

12.h Historic Technologies for the Body/Self
Chair: Aaron Worth
Speaker: Jenni Lieberman, "Decoding and Regulating the Body Electric: Bioelectricity in Nineteenth-Century America"
Speaker: Jennifer Thorn, "Mesmerism, credulity, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

Wrap-Up Session | 12 noon ‚ 1pm