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50th Anniversary Arts and Humanities Conference: "Creativity, Cognition, Critique"

This joint Arts + Humanities conference addresses the topic “Creativity, Cognition, Critique.” The event will probe the flow among acts of artistic and technological making, forms of interpretation and reflection, and the cognitive processes that they share. Speakers will be major and emerging figures in the arts, the humanities, and their intersection. This event is linked to Event will be linked to the 2016 Wellek Lectures, the School of Humanities’ premier lecture event and an important part of UCI’s history. The speaker for the Wellek Lectures is Katherine Hayles, Professor of English at Duke University and a leader in the fields of digital humanities, electronic literature, and literature and science. The week will also be enriched by a residency with Georgina Born, a prominent musicologist from the UK who has done research on UCI’s digital arts program and legacy. Major guests include filmmaker Charles Burnett.

SCHEDULE: Friday, May 20

10:00: Panel: Creativity, Cognition, and Critique: Contemporary Sound and Soundscapes
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Amy Cimini, Music, UCSD; Sumanth S. Gopinah, University of Minnesota; Jim Steintrager, UCI Critical Theory.
Georgina Born, responding.
Conference launch: Dean Georges Van Den Abbeele
Moderator: David Brodbeck

11:30: Lunch

12:30: Keynote 1: Georgina Born
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"Art-Science Teaching at UCI: An Ethnography of Interdisciplinary Experiment"
Introduced by Amy Bauer, Department of Music, UCI

Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College. Her books include Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (California 1995), Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music (edited with David Hesmondhalgh, California 2000), and Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (Vintage 2005).

2:00: Keynote 2: Teddy Cruz: Creativity and Critique in / as Urban Space
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Teddy Cruz, architect and urbanist (Professor of Visual Art, UCSD)
Introduced by Jesse Colin Jackson, Assistant Professor of Art, UCI and Amy Sanchez, MFA Candidate in Art, UCI
Teddy Cruz is recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, advancing border immigrant neighborhoods as sites of cultural production, from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing and civic infrastructure.

4:00: Wellek 3
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N. Katherine Hayles
"Precarious Narratives: The  Risky Behavior of Print Books No Longer Able to Tell Coherent Stories"

6:00: Reception

7:00: Performance: Random Access Music Universe with Pamela Z, Cauleen Smith and Nicole Mitchell.
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
Contemporary Arts Center, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC Irvine

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