The inaugural Occupied Spaces Symposium will begin Friday and run through Saturday at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. The symposium will feature research from scholars as far away as Arizona, Michigan, and Illinois; performances from cellist Hank Roberts and a world premiere from DJ/VJ Art Jones; and two days of lively debate and discussion about occupied spaces in all their many forms, from geographic to gaming, post-9/11 in the United States and across the globe.
Occupied Spaces schedule:
Friday, April 8 Park 220 (unless otherwise noted)
9:45-10:15 a.m. Inauguration of the Occupied Spaces Research Initiative and Symposium
Welcome: Dianne Lynch, Dean, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College
Keynote Address: Peter Bardaglio, Provost, Ithaca College, "Occupied Spaces and Sustainable Communication"
10:15-11:45 a.m. Session I
Occupations in a Post 9/11 World: Representations, Mediations, Constructions
Moderator: Tanya Saunders, Assistant Provost and Dean, Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Ithaca College
Presenters:
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session II
Want to Play a Game: War and (Computer/Video) Gaming
Moderator: Gordon Rowland (Ithaca College, OCLD)
Presenters:
3:15-4:45 p.m. Session III
(Rap/Hip Hop) Music as Cultural Export: Occupying and Recolonizing Bodies, Race(s), Gender(s), and Histories
Moderator: Larry Shinagawa, Director, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Ithaca College
Presenters:
5:00-6:00 p.m. Reception/cocktails/wine for participants in Park Lobby
Installations featuring the Korean music videos of Changhee Chun (Ithaca College, Cinema and Photography)
Sponsored by the Department of Television/Radio and the Office of Multicultural Affairs
6:45-7:45 p.m. "Music from Occupied Lands" (Park 220)
Hank Roberts, avant-garde cellist, presents a program of solo chamber music from occupied lands
Sponsored by the Department of Organizational Communication, Learning and Design and the School of Music
8:00 p.m. Performance: "Dismantling Empire: Live!" (Park Auditorium)
Art Jones, Distinguished Feature Artist
A live audio/visual performance and DJ/VJ battle incorporating multiple video streams and music performed in real-time with multiple computers. The performance appropriates and remixes audio and visual elements from mainstream news, commercial, entertainment, and alternative media to critique how images validate and promote the idea of a benign 'new American empire." 'Hi-tech' combat, embedded war journalism, prisoner torture, and post 9-11 security and surveillance form the source material for the live remix. A world premiere and special commission from the Occupied Spaces Research Initiative (OSRI) in collaboration with Cinema on the Edge (COTE). Also featuring Simon Tarr and Changhee Chun
Sponsored by Cinema on the Edge, the School of Music, and the Experimental Television Center
Saturday, April 9, Park 220 (unless otherwise noted)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session IV
Space and the Occupation of National Identities
Moderator: Steve Tropiano (Ithaca College, Los Angeles Program)
Presenters:
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session V
Performing Against Occupation
Moderator: Marie Garland (Ithaca College, OCLD)
Presenters:
1:15-2 p.m. Wrap-up Roundtable Discussion (Clark Lounge)
2-2:30 p.m. Park School Walkabout
This symposium is part of the Occupied Spaces Research Initiative, an on-going interdisciplinary faculty research and outreach project in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.
Major funding for the Occupied Spaces Symposium is generously provided by the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity, the Roy H. Park School of Communications, the Office of the Provost and Cinema on the Edge. Additional funding is provided by the Department of Television/Radio, Department of Organizational Communication, Learning, and Design, the graduate program in communications, the Office of Alumni Relations, the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, School of Music, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20050404142835270