DIGITAL FUTURES Panel Talk

July 7th, 2022

The Digital Futures panelists will discuss and highlight the issues related to the intersection of digital and performance art.

Speakers:

Dr. Christiane Paul, New York, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art | Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School

Dr. Julie Nagam, Winnipeg, Director Nuit Blanche Toronto | Glam Collective

Tina Sauerlaender, Berlin, Artistic Director VR ART PRIZE | Co-Founder peer to space | Founder SALOON Berlin

Peggy Schoenegge, Berlin Senior Curator | peer to space

Dr. Francesca Albrezzi, L.A, University of California Los Angeles

Rah Eleh, Toronto, Moderator and Artist

We would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support. In addition, we would like to thank our partners at the European Cultural Centre Performance, European Cultural Centre Italy and the Aabijijiwan New Media Lab.

July 7, 2022 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM CEST

https://zoom.us/j/96776275337?pwd=MHpIa2JOQ1ZLdVg3K3JSN21tK2k0dz09

Passcode: 573857

YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW IN THE METAVERSE - Panel Discussion

The University of Michigan Digital Studies Institute presents
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW IN THE METAVERSE
Thursday, February 17, 1-2:30pm EST / 19-20:30h CET
Via Zoom (< Link)

This panel convenes a group of leading international artists and curators working in online spaces in a variety of modalities, including net art, video/animation, game development, VR, XR and the NFT-adjacent art community. The speakers will briefly introduce their own practice and participate in a roundtable discussion that reflects critically on the present concept of the "metaverse," from creative, art historical, and socio-politically-informed perspectives. The conversation will seek to chip away at some of the hype and corporately co-opted buzzwords clouding the present discourse in order to underscore some important legacies and trace a path for the trajectory of the most compelling work in the metaverse.

Panelists:
LaTurbo Avedon, Artist/Avatar
Yvette Granata, Artist, Digital Studies Institute faculty, Assistant Professor, Dept of Film, TV & Media, University of Michigan
Auriea Harvey, Artist, Professor of Games, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Tina Sauerlaender, Director & Head Curator, Peer to Space
Moderator: Marisa Olson, Artist, Executive Director, Digital Studies Institute