Digital Aesthetics Workshop with Shane Denson and Angèle Christin

Join us for our final event of the 2023–24 academic year with the Digital Aesthetics Workshop. We will workshop selected graduate student papers with Shane Denson (Art History) and Angèle Christin (Communication). Unlike our previous events, this will be open to Stanford affiliates only, and will not have a Zoom option. For our catering numbers, RSVP here by Wednesday, May 22. The full schedule is below:

12:00-1:00 - Lunch

Panel 1 - Spaces, places
1:00-1:15 - Danielle Adair, Theater and Performance Studies, (Music) or Sound as Space 

1:15-1:30 -  Katja Schwaller, Modern Thought and Literature, Google’s Sub/urban “Public Squares”: Architecture, Organization, and the Culture of Global Urban Activation

1:30-1:45 - Kola Heyward-Rotimi, Modern Thought and Literature, USAID Modernism: Aided Self-Help Housing in 1960s Africa

1:45-2:00 -  Lingjia Xu, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Towards a Crafty Lifestyle: @congcongh, Chinese Vloggers, and the Future of Work

2:00-2:30 - Faculty response (Angèle Christin, Communication) and peer response 

2:30-2:45 - Coffee Break 

Panel 2 - What goes (un)said
2:50-3:05 - Jason Beckman, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Informational Aesthetics: The Literary “I” vs. the Digital Profile

3:05-3:20 - Mallen Clifton, English, The Link to Nowhere: An Ontological Study of Deleted Social Media Posts

3:20-3:35 - J. Makary, Art History, Object Small AI: A Lacanian Appraisal of the Synthetic Image

3:35-3:50 - Rebecca Turner, Art History, Seeing/Unseeing Sex: Brian De Palma's Body Double and the Sex Wars

3:50-4:20 - Faculty response (Shane Denson, Art History) and peer-response

4:20-4:30 - Closing Remarks

This is event is co-sponsored with the Department of Communications and the Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS).