The Center for Art Research (CFAR) and Tropical Contemporary are partnering to facilitate a collection of expressions that represent individual artists’ examination of power. This project was initiated by a research community at the University of Oregon that assembled to investigate global histories, philosophical positions, and lived experiences related to POWER. This work represented a range of information and perspectives related to power in public and private spheres in order to access, process, and advance thinking about individual, social, and cultural issues. By creating an environment that privileged access, analysis, and open exchange, this research community worked within a cooperative structure that drew from participants’ experiences, studio practice, and speculative inquiry.

On Power, in 20 Parts is a culmination of this work, and is intentionally multivalent, indeterminate, and discursive, manifesting in a range of forms that represent individuals’ distinct consideration of POWER. As such, we have attempted to design this site in a way that counters the pervasive hierarchies that are embedded in the systems we engage with daily and are inherently present in online platforms. Our primary method to address these issues was to construct a static landing page with dynamic, nonhierarchical access points for projects, so as to randomize the relationship between viewers and each project. Additionally, each contributing artist was given agency to organize their individual page to reflect the priorities of their project.

Artists
HIBA ALI
AANDERSON/ DEVAUGHN/ YATSU
SAJADS AMINI
DANA BUZZEE
AGNESE CEBERE
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATION OF LAND MASS AGENCY
MARY EVANS
TANNAZ FARSI
BRIAN GILLIS
ANASTASIYA GUTNIK
RON JUDE
ERIN LANGLEY
DAVID PENA + LUISA MARTINEZ
HANNAH PETKAU
TYLER STOLL
TANNON RECKLING
JESSIE ROSE VALA + STEPHEN NACHTIGALL
AMANDA WOJICK
CAROL YAHNER
WILLIAM ZENG

Visit the Center for Art Research and the Department of Art websites for further information.

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2021 Data|Media|Digital Graduate Symposium Panel

The 2021 Data|Media|Digital Graduate Symposium panel will take place from 4-6 on Thursday, April 8th. The symposium is a joint collaboration of the New Media & Culture Program, the School of Journalism and Communication, and the Digital Humanities Initiative. We are happy to announce the speakers for this year’s panel:

Dr. Kate Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English; Associate Director, Comic Studies Program) will present a paper entitled “Heat Maps and Comic Strips: Visual Tactics for Capturing Migrants in Europe.”

Emily Lawhead (PhD Program, History of Art and Architecture) will present a paper entitled “Collecting Code: Digital Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum.”

Sofia Vicente-Vidal (PhD Program, Anthropology) will present a paper entitled “Networks of World Heritage Management.”

Zane Casimir (MA, History of Art and Architecture) will present a paper entitled  “A Picturesque Display of Art: What we can learn from Animal Crossing New Horizons’ Procedural Version of Art, Art History, and Museum-Going.”

The 2021 Data|Media|Digital Graduate Symposium panel will take place from 4-6 on Thursday, April 8th. The symposium is a joint collaboration of the New Media & Culture Program, the School of Journalism and Communication, and the Digital Humanities Initiative. We are happy to announce the speakers for this year’s panel:

Faculty Presentation

Dr. Kate Kelp-Stebbins (Assistant Professor, English; Associate Director, Comic Studies Program), “Heat Maps and Comic Strips: Visual Tactics for Capturing Migrants in Europe.”

Graduate Presentations

Emily Lawhead (PhD, History of Art and Architecture) will present a paper entitled “Collecting Code: Digital Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum.”

Sofia Vicente-Vidal (PhD, Anthropology) will present a paper entitled “Networks of World Heritage Management.”

Zane Casimir (MA, History of Art and Architecture) will present a paper entitled  “A Picturesque Display of Art: What we can learn from Animal Crossing New Horizons’ Procedural Version of Art, Art History, and Museum-Going.”

Stay tuned for information on registration and a link for virtual attendance.

The NMCC is proud to announce that we will be hosting a virtual panel featuring Omeka exhibits recently made by our graduate students, Ken Hanson (PhD, Sociology), Patrick Jones (PhD, Media Studies), and Emily Lawhead (PhD, History of Art & Architecture). Omeka is a digital platform for the collection, curation, and display of rich image-and-text web exhibits.

The panel will be held on Thursday, February 11th from 5:45-6:45.

To register for the event contact NMCC Program Assistant, Patrick Jones at patrickj@uoregon.edu.

To check out the exhibits before (or after) the event, visit the NMCC Omeka Showcase.

The History of Art and Architecture department’s Sponenburg Lecture is next Wednesday, February 3, at 5:30. Dr. Kristine Tanton of the Universite de Montreal will give her lecture on recent work entitled: “Sculpture, Epigraphy and Ritual: The Spatial Iconography of inscribed Capitals in Romanesque France, 1080–1160”. For more information click on the poster. To register, please email Gabriela Chitwood at gchitwoo@uoregon.edu.

Digital Scholarship Services is running it’s WordPress for Digital Humanists Workshop Series for the beginning of winter term. No experience is required. The three individual workshops are geared toward learners who want to get their toes in the shallow end of the WordPress swimming pool.

The first workshop starts next Tuesday, 1/19 from 1-3 pm

For more information about the workshops and how to register visit the DSS Dream Lab.

Winter 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the University of Oregon Department of Art and Center for Art Research

January 14: Fred H. C. Liang: “Convergence”
January 28: Mario Ybarra Jr.: “I Did It for Revenge!”, George and Matilda Fowler Lecture
February 4: Jillian Mayer: “Time To Chill”
February 11: Laura Fritz: “Mechanisms of Uncertainty”
March 4: Hamza Walker, Critical Conversations lecture

Lectures are live online on Thursdays at 4pm PST and are free and open to the public.
Register using the above links or join the livestream on the Department of Art Facebook.

The winter 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series was made possible in part by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund, the Gordon W. Gilkey Endowed Fund, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Critical Conversations | Inside Oregon Art, a partnership between the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon Department of Art’s Center for Art Research.

Go to art.uoregon.edu for more information about the department.
Visit “5 Minutes” for interviews with Visiting Artists by UO Art MFA candidates.
Explore 10+ years of Visiting Artist lecture videos on the UO Channel.
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Call for Submissions

University of Oregon’s Third Annual
Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium

Thur Apr 8 (afternoon session) + Fri Apr 9 (morning and early afternoon sessions)

Proposal Submission Deadline: Thursday, January 14, 2021

We invite submissions for 15-minute presentations from UO graduate students on any aspect of Data/Media/Digital studies for a symposium to be held over three sessions on Thursday April 8^th and Friday April 9^th (this is week 2 of the Spring 2021 term).  The annual Data/Media/Digital Symposium will be held this year virtually (though if an opportunity arises for some or all of our panels to be a hybrid in-person and virtual model, we will be in touch with applicants well before the symposium date).  Presentations can be based on work in progress or on research and work in the final stages of development. Proposals should specify clear scholarly or pedagogical goals, and should articulate how the design or argument of a data/media/digital project might address those goals. Any kind of data studies, media studies, or digital studies project is welcome (if you aren’t sure if your project fits our call, then it probably does, but please get in touch and we can offer you our guidance).

This event will be an opportunity to showcase the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced by graduate students across campus.  We look forward to sustaining cross-disciplinary conversations and building inter-departmental community over the course of the day.  To facilitate this goal, student participants are expected to attend all three panel sessions comprising the symposium (to the extent that their academic schedule allows).

Please send your submission to nmcc.uo@gmail.com by the end of day (11:59PM) on Thursday January 14^th.  Submissions should include two documents (as separate PDFs): a submission file and your CV.  Your submission PDF must include: your name, your UO department or program, your presentation title, and a brief 250-to-500 word abstract (or executive summary) of your proposed presentation.  Decisions about all submissions will be conveyed by Monday, February 1^st, 2020.

Questions about D|M|D can be directed to any member of our co-organizing committee:

• Colin Koopman: koopman@uoregon.edu (New Media & Culture + Philosophy)
• Bish Sen: bsen@uoregon.edu (School of Journalism & Communication + Media Studies)
• Patrick Jones: patrickj@uoregon.edu (New Media & Culture + SOJC Media Studies)

The NMCC is proud to announce our newest Omeka exhibit: Do People Dream of Silicone Soulmates? by Ken Hanson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology.

Kenneth R. Hanson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon where he studies the cutting edge of technology and sexuality. His dissertation, The Silicone Self, is a digital ethnography of the love and sex doll community. The Silicone Self features content analysis of more than 100 social media sites;  posts, threads, and images from two leading doll community forums; and in-depth interview data with more than 40 doll community members. These members include owners, industry workers, partners of people who own dolls, and potential buyers. His research is informed by a strong queer theoretical lens that incorporates symbolic interactionism, poststructuralism, and intersectional frameworks. Empirically motivated and intellectually adventurous, his work leads him wherever sexuality and technology are willing to go.

Our other Omeka exhibits can be found on our website. And stay tuned for info about an NMCC Omeka virtual panel this winter!