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BRIDGES: Sessions
DAY 1: Thursday, May 31, 2001
10:00am Introductory Remarks
Elizabeth Daley, Executive Director, The USC Annenberg Center for Communication
Celia Pearce, The USC Annenberg Center for Communication
Sara Diamond, Banff Centre for the Arts New Media Institute
10:30-12:00 Goals/Introductions
Review of Consortium Goals and Overview (Sara Diamond & Celia Pearce)
Formal, two-minute introductions of participants
12:00-1:00 Panel One: Roots - Histories of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Case studies of historical in art/technology/science collaboration, evolution of collaborative context; roots in other disciplines, challenges and rewards; paradigm shifts that occurred as a result; birthing new disciplines.
Dan Sandin, University of Illinois, Chicago, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Randall Packer, Zakros InterArts & Ken Jordan, New England Foundation for the Arts
Anne Nigten, V2/Encart
Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz, Electronic Cafe International
Co-Moderators: Sara Diamond & Celia Pearce
1:00 Lunch on the Lawn
2:00-3:30 Panel Two: Arts, Science, Engineering - The Value of Collaboration
Various notions of interdisciplinarity, including idea of the interdisciplinary individual; pleasures of collaboration; changing reference frames; thinking "outside the box" by using techniques from other disciplines in new ways; influence of root disciplines; fuzzy lines;
marginalization encountered if you're discipline is not "pure;" connotations of word "discipline"
Ken Goldberg, U.C. Berkeley
Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary
Roy Ascott, CaiiA
Mashiko Kusahara, Kobe University
Tapio Makela, University of Turku
Co-Moderators: Sara Diamond & Celia Pearce
3:45-5:45 Panel/Roundtable: Process
Notions of creativity, creative process, intuition and rational methods. Presentations and discussion centered on context for collaborative work, as well as motivations and methods of creating interdisciplinary projects, including both research and educational contexts.
Nina Czegledy, Independent
Michael Naimark, Independent
Jacquelyn Morie, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Paul Kaiser, Riverbed
Mark Green, University of Hong Kong, School for Creative Media
Co-Moderators: Sara Diamond & Celia Pearce
7:00pm Dinner Reception at Hotel Figueroa
DAY 2: Friday, June 1, 2001
9:00-12:30 Brainstorming Session: Values, Culture and Language (Inter-Dictionary)
An exercise in language, words, and meaning:
Part 1: Participants made up competing definitions of key words, then others voted on them.
Part 2: Half the participants wrote a question using the term "surface tension," the other have an answer using the term "Because the artist..." No-one was able to see what others were writing. Participants then read what they had written, alternating between answers
Part 3: A series of words was presented. People self-organized into breakout groups in which they discussed various meanings of the word, its implications and its relationship to other words within various disciplinary lexica. Afterwards, groups reconvened to discuss results.
Co-Moderators of group discussion: Sara Diamond & Celia Pearce with Patrick Clancy, Kansas City Art Institute with Glenn Van Knowe, MESO
12:30-1:30 Lunch on the Lawn
1:30-2:45 Panel/Roundtable: Entities, Institutions and Funding‹How Things Get Done (See Discussion Topics)
"Entities" and institutions; relationship of individual to institution/entity; funding models and economics; resource subversion; cultural issues; variations in work product; project management and production process; what skills are needed to collaborate well?
Bronac Ferran, Arts Council of England
Ana Serrano, Canadian Film Centre
Anne Levi-Lloyd, Media Innovation Centre
Stephan Meyers, Nokia
Co-Moderators: Celia Pearce and Sara Diamond with Mark Beam
3:00-4:45 Working Groups
Participants broke up into interdisciplinary working groups to brainstorm potential BRIDGES initiatives. Teams then returned and presented ideas to the full group.
Group Leaders:
Natalie Bookchin, CalArts
Kathryn Saunders, Digital Media Institute
Tapio Makela, University of Turku
Pamela Jennings, SRI International
Robert Nideffer, UC Irvine
5:00-6:00 Closing Session
Group discussed long-term potential of BRIDGES and enthusiasm about future initiatives.
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