Thursday

12:00 - 12:30 Registration
12:30 - 1:00 Opening Remarks: R.L. Rutsky
1:00 - 2:00 Panel 1: Auteurs & Realism in the Digital Age

Laura Moses: Towards an Aesthetic Definition of the Hyperreal in Richard Linklater’s Digital Cinema

Bruno Lessard: Digital Kiarostami: Defining the Modalities of Indeterminacy

Moderator Jennifer Hammett

2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:15 Panel 2: Digital Subversion

Justin Mendoza: Posted Pastiche: Stolen Images as Subversion and Creating Community in the Age of YouTube

Melanie Saeck: Morimura’s Digital Inversions

Moderator Aaron Kerner

3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:30

Panel 3: Digital Criticism

Summre Gaston: Robotic Femmes
Justin Mendoza: Through the Rabbit Hole
Daniel Steves: The Spectacular Films of John Greyson – A Critical Discourse in HTML
David Church: Singapore Sling: Narrative, Noir and Destructive Desire
Liam Colle: Infernal Departed
Laura Costantino & Zeynep Yasar: Women (‘s) Love

Moderator: R. L. Rutsky

5:30 - 7:30 Evening Reception

Friday

9:00 - 9:30 Registration / Breakfast Opening
9:30 - 12:00 Lynn Hershman Leeson: Strange Culture & Keynote Presentation
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Reception
1:00 - 2:00 Panel 4: The YouTube World

Kate Balsley: The Amateur Avant Garde: How YouTube Encourages Experimentation and Innovation

Bryan Brown: Becoming a “Friend”: The Filmmakers’ Blog and its Impact on Filmmaking

Moderator Mary Scott

2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:15 Panel 5: National Cinemas

r. Amit Kumar: New Technologies, Old Ideologies: Indian Cinema in Digital Age

Fiona Lee: Malaysian Independent Filmmakers: Democratizing National Cinema through Digital Films

Moderator Jenny Lau

3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Panel 6: Digital Aesthetics

Marcy Saude: Limning Cinema: Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle

John Laughlin: FraudCast Yourself: The Spectacle of YouTube and the Case of lonelygirl15

Moderator Tim Sika

4:30 - 4:45 Closing Comments Selena Dickey