NEoN Re@ct Social Change Art Technology Symposium Schedule

Wed 06th Nov - SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE VENUE: V&A 09:15 Symposium Opening Joseph DeLappe, Sarah /Introduction Cook, Laura Leuzzi 09:30 KEYNOTE 1: Performance and Maria London South Citizen Media: Gesturing Dissent Chatzichristodoulou Bank University 10:30 BREAK Paper Title 11:00 PANEL 1: Why Now? Learning From Chair, Sarah Cook University of Activist Video of the 1970s & 80s , Mercedes Vicente Independent Darcy Lange’s Maori Curator of Land Project: Early Dundee, Scotland Video, Indigenous Rights and Artistic Interventions Adam Lockhart DJCAD, University Democracy vs of Dundee, Technocracy Scotland Tony Dowmunt Communications Introduction to LCVA: and Cultural Why Now? Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Alicja Pawluczuk University of Storifying the Digital Liverpool and Divide: What Can The Digital Beez.org 1970's Community Video Teach Us About Inequalities in the Digital Age? 12:30 LUNCH/ ACTIONS OFFSITE 14:30 PANEL 2: Disrupt! Interventions in Chair, Joseph DeLappe Abertay University, Cultural and Political Contexts Dundee, Scotland Francesca Franco University of Exeter, Art & Technology at UK the Venice Biennale, 1968-1970 BD Owens Independent Artist, ‘Watching Me, Scotland Watching You: Reflections Upon Surveillance, Gare Loch Duality & the #undesiredline’ Jon Blackwood Greys School of After the Captured Art, , State : Contemporary Scotland Artists, Digital Strategies and Political Action in North Macedonia, 2015-19 Fernando Martín Stultifera Navis The Ghost Newspaper: Velazco Institutom / Fake Journalism in the Independent Mexican Drug War 16:00 BREAK 16:30 KEYNOTE 2: Pro Bono Mercenary for Steve Lambert Associate Justice Recruitment Session Professor, SUNY Purchase, Co- Director, Center for Artistic Activism, NYC, USA Thur 07th Nov – SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO VENUE: WEST CHURCH 130/132 Perth Road 09:30 KEYNOTE 3: Artists and Food Amanda McDonald Independent Systems: Towards Sustainable Crowley Curator, Cultural Futures worker, and Educator, NYC, USA 10:30 BREAK 11:00 PANEL 3: Let's Take the Toys From Chair, Laura Leuzzi DJCAD, University the Boys: Feminist and Queer of Dundee, Strategies Scotland Laura Leuzzi DJCAD, University EWVA - Retracing of Dundee, European Early Scotland Women's Video Art Joanna Walsh UEA PhD A Woman Sitting In candidate, Front of a Screen Creative and Critical Writing (Digital Narrative, Digital Selves) Virginia Crisp King’s College, Making a Difference?: London Research as a Catalyst for Change Giulia Casalini Cuntemporary.org Queer-feminist Ecologies of Resistance in Digital (after)Lives 12:30 LUNCH/ ACTIONS OFFSITE VENUE: CHAMBER EAST Chamber Building, Panmure Street 14:30 PANEL 4: Making and Playing: Chair, Darshanna Abertay University, Tactics for Social Change Jayemanne Scotland Janna Ahrndt Indiana University, P@tching In: Stitching USA Together Tactical Media and Social Aesthetics as a Political Art Practice Ray LC Northeastern A Case for Play: University, Parsons Immersive Storytelling School of Design, of Rohingya Refugee USA Experience Fruzsina Pittner University of To Redraw the Picture Dundee -- Altering the Image of the Postcolonial through the Art of Making Lulamile Mohapi Fishknife Political Play in the Interactive, South “Winnie Mandela” Africa Video Game: A Postmortem 16:00 BREAK 16:30 KEYNOTE 4: Ecocritical Media Arts Sean Cubitt Goldsmiths, and the War on Terra University of London

Fri 08th Nov – SYMPOSIUM DAY THREE VENUE: STEPPS THEATRE, WELLGATE CENTRE Victoria Road 09:30 KEYNOTE 5: Mahwish Chishty University of Drones+Cultural Massachusetts, Aesthetic Amherst, USA 10:30 BREAK 11:00 PANEL 5: AI: Surveillance, Activism Chair, Sarah Cook University of and Control Glasgow, Scotland Violeta Vojvodic Balaz PhD candidate, Social Engine Transdisciplinary Communication Studies of Modern Experiment Arts And Media at the Faculty for Media and Communication in Belgrade Dennis Delgado Cooper Union, Dark Databases: NYC, USA Facial Recognition and its 'Failure,' to Enroll Martin Zeilinger Abertay University, AI Between Copyright Dundee, Scotland Enforcement and Copyright Activism in Digital Art Conor McGarrigle Dublin School of Handouts don’t exist Creative Arts, hustle or you don’t eat Technological (title is an AI University Dublin generated tweet) 12:30 LUNCH/ ACTIONS OFFSITE 14:30 PANEL 6: Emerging Threats, Chair, Natasha DJCAD, University Questions, Empowerment Lushetich of Dundee, Scotland Pip Thorton Creative Linguistic Capitalism: Informatics, Critique & Resistance University of in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction Tom Keene Goldsmiths, Database (e)State: University of Resisting, Thinking, and London Acting with Machines of Urban Regeneration. Johanna Hoffman Shiftworks + Making the Future MKThink, San Personal Francisco, CA USA Andy Best Aalto University, T/Act - sound Finland controllers for social empowerment 16:00 BREAK 16:30 KEYNOTE 6: Copper in my Cooch Marisa Morán Jahn MIT and The New and Other Technologies School, USA