Saturday 10am — 6pm Keynotes and Panels
UB Educational Opportunity Center (555 Ellicott Street)
10-11:15AM: Greg Seigworth Keynote with Patricia Clough as respondent
11: 15-11:30 AM: Break
11:30AM-1 PM: Session One (panels 1 — 2 concurrently)
Panel 1: Feeling Good/Feeling Bad
Larry Switzky (University of Toronto)
Laura McGough (UB — Media Study)
Derek Curry (UB — Media Study)
2-3:30PM: Session Two: (panels 3 — 4 concurrently)
Panel 3: Feeling Together
John Muse (University of Chicago)
Miriam Felton-Dansky (Bard College)
Laura Shackelford (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Panel 4: Digital Methods
Alex Reid (UB — English)
Jeff Good (UB — Linguistics)
Karen Fricker (Brock University)
3:30-4PM: Break
4-5PM: Jonathan Kalb Keynote
5-5:30 PM: Closing remarks
*dataPurge was commissioned by Performance Space 122 with an exploration grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the Building Demand for the Performing Arts Program.
Departing from Raymond Williams's notion of "a structure of feeling," this colloquium considers digital culture's characteristic affects, genres, spectatorial habits, and modes of thought—its "characteristic elements of impulse, restraint, and tone," in Williams's formulation—as manifested in contemporary art and culture. How have architecture, visual art, literature, dance, and performance been subtly transformed by the layering of new relations on old expectations? To borrow Sianne Ngai's phrase, does digital culture have symptomatic "aesthetic categories"? Or, more simply, What new modes of experience has the digital age inaugurated, and how have these new ways of thinking, feeling, and perceiving permeated culture and shaped artistic and literary forms?
"Structures of Digital Feeling" is a two-day colloquium that will convene fruitful conversations across disciplines by curating seminars in which scholars from different fields of study—both from UB and outside—will address similar questions and provocations.
