THE STREET

Graduate Student Conference
PhD Program in Visual Studies
University of California, Irvine
February 29 - March 1, 2008

Download the PDF schedule with abstracts here. Or, view the abbreviated schedule below.

Friday, February 29, 2008

10:00 -10:30 Registration, HIB 135

10:45 – 11:00 Welcome Remarks, HIB 135

11:00 – 12:30 (Re)placing Paris: Reconstruction, Revolution, and le reste, HIB 135

Camille S. Mathieu, University of California, Berkeley

“Passage, from Above and Below: The Street in Early French Impressionist Painting”

Kate Morris, University of Glasgow

"Perec's Alternative Topography: Figuring Permanence and the Ephemeral in Lieux"

Respondent: Professor Catherine Liu, University of California, Irvine

12:30 – 2 Lunch

2 – 3:30 Urban Interventions and Tactile Aesthetics, HIB 135

Eva Friedberg, University of California, Irvine

"'Experiments in Environment’: Urban Rituals and the Street as Public Stage”

Claudia Pederson, Cornell University

“Games, Play, and the Spectacle: Situating Agency in Alternative Gaming”

John Tyson, Tufts University

“Street Art and the Problematization of Public Space”

Respondent: Professor Jonathan Hall, University of California, Irvine

4:00 – 5:30 Opening Keynote, HIB 135

Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of

Government at Cornell University

7:00-9:00 Screening, HIB 100

Green Love (n.d.), Lincoln Tobier and Nils Norman, 12 min.

River Made (2004), Charles Long and Kristina Faragher, 3:50 min.

Rebels of the Dance (2004), Fikret Atay, 11 min.

Tinica (2004), Fikret Atay, 7 min.

Paradox of Praxis I, (1997) Francis Alys, 15 min.

Style Wars (1983), Dir. Tony Silver, 69 min.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

11:00 – 12:30 Sites and Citations: The Photographic City, HIB 135

Inés Rae, University of Leeds

“Kurl up n Dye; the vernacular in British high street culture”

Thomas O’Leary, University of Southern California

“Image Hunters: Moriyama Daido and Araki Nobuyoshi’s Visions of Tokyo”

Franz Prichard, University of California, Los Angeles

"Between Inundation and Insurgency: Nakahira Takuma's Urban Photography"

Respondent: Professor Sally Stein, University of California, Irvine

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:30 Visualizing the Street, HIB 135

Catherine McMahon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Panoramic Urbanity”

Lara Schweller, University of California, Irvine

"TransiTV: Mediating the Street"

Krista Dahl, Boston University

“Balthus: A Surrealist’s Fabrication of Parisian Streets”

Respondent: Professor Kristen Hatch, University of California, Irvine

4:00 - 5:30 Closing Keynote, HIB 135

Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine