Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

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Our Public Humanities + Research department focuses on making scholarly work widely available and accessible through the coordination of the fellowship program and public programming that combines academic research with exhibition-related events. Across the institution—from the classroom to the gallery, from publications to this website—we utilize digital media to facilitate and share original research. This section outlines current programming and provides a repository for past scholarly content.

New technologies frequently challenge our notions of distance by shifting perceptions of time and space which, in both subtle and radical ways, alter our relationships to our physical environments and social networks. This symposium focuses on recent advances in mobile technologies and new media and the ways that they are complicating, expanding, and disrupting our understanding of temporal, physical, and social distance. Papers presented will explore this topic through a variety of technologies that will help illuminate the changes, challenges, opportunities, and disorientations we face and their implications for the future.

1 pm

Peter N. Miller
Dean and Professor, Bard Graduate Center
Welcome

Jesse Merandy
Director of the Digital Media Lab, Bard Graduate Center
Introduction

1:15 pm

Shannon Mattern
Associate Professor, The New School
Coding Urban Pasts and Futures

2 pm

Angel David Nieves
Presidential Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University; Associate Professor, History, San Diego State University
Queering Historical Recovery, Truth & Reconciliation in South Africa: Stompie Seipei, Winnie Mandela, and the Promise of Digital History

2:45 pm

Coffee Break

3 pm

David Gagnon
Director, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling: Exploring the Ways that Places can Tell Their Stories with Mobile Media

3:45 pm

Meryl Alper
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
Reconsidering Connection and Conversation through Disability and Communication Technology

4:30 pm

Coffee Break

4:45 pm

Jason Farman
Associate Professor, American Studies and Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program, University of Maryland, College Park
Tactics for Waiting

5:30 pm

Panel Discussion and Q&A
Moderated by Jesse Merandy
Director of the Digital Media Lab, Bard Graduate Center

6 pm

Reception