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Michigan Meeting Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments

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March 22, 2019 - 2:00pm – 6:00pm03/22/2019 2:00pm 03/22/2019 6:00pm Michigan Meeting Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments Michigan Meeting Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments In 2012 the first 4K resolution screen became available on the commercial market at the common 30” desktop size, making it possible for a user with 20/20 vision seated 24” away from a computer screen to be confronted with the same amount of visual information as could be experienced in the surrounding environment. This development brought verisimilitude to another realm that has gradually emerged for decades, the constitution of the digital sphere as a kind of environment itself. Today, we live inside the digital. Increasingly, our public and private lives are conducted online and in digital space where our relationships are forged, nurtured, or deleted, where our bills are paid and finances tracked, and where our ideologies are fed and our politics balkanized by our respective media bubbles. And while the digital now constitutes more and more of our daily routines, it can also offer a distorting abstraction of “external life.” Swiping left is easier than breaking up, and even the most civil among us can become an entitled consumer on Yelp. At once, our digital environments offer new grounds for engagement and interaction, and immersive venues for escape from the exigencies of the outside world. This session will discuss this dialectic. Drawing contributors from across art, architecture, design, and media studies, we will examine the digital as both a totalizing environment unto itself – a bubble apart from the external lifeworld – and a new venue for social organization and engagement. Registration is required to attend. Panel Speakers Amy Kulper, RISD Aubrey Anable, Carleton University Jose Sanchez, USC Moderator McLain Clutter, U-M Taubman College Schedule 2:00 PM Introduction 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Presentations by panelists 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Discussion 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Intermission 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM Guided Tour: "Art In the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today" 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Discussion 6:00 PM Closing The 2019 Michigan Meeting is co-organized by Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Assistant Professor of Architecture Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Associate Professor of Communication McLain Clutter, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Associate Professor of Architecture Paul Conway, University of Michigan School of Information, Associate Professor of Information Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Assistant Professor of Architecture Sarah Murray, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Assistant Professor of Film, Television, and Media Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor of American Studies University of Michigan Museum of Art America/Detroit public

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University of Michigan Museum of Art

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Michigan Meeting Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments

In 2012 the first 4K resolution screen became available on the commercial market at the common 30” desktop size, making it possible for a user with 20/20 vision seated 24” away from a computer screen to be confronted with the same amount of visual information as could be experienced in the surrounding environment. This development brought verisimilitude to another realm that has gradually emerged for decades, the constitution of the digital sphere as a kind of environment itself. Today, we live inside the digital. Increasingly, our public and private lives are conducted online and in digital space where our relationships are forged, nurtured, or deleted, where our bills are paid and finances tracked, and where our ideologies are fed and our politics balkanized by our respective media bubbles. And while the digital now constitutes more and more of our daily routines, it can also offer a distorting abstraction of “external life.” Swiping left is easier than breaking up, and even the most civil among us can become an entitled consumer on Yelp. At once, our digital environments offer new grounds for engagement and interaction, and immersive venues for escape from the exigencies of the outside world. This session will discuss this dialectic. Drawing contributors from across art, architecture, design, and media studies, we will examine the digital as both a totalizing environment unto itself – a bubble apart from the external lifeworld – and a new venue for social organization and engagement.

Registration is required to attend.

Panel Speakers
Amy Kulper, RISD
Aubrey Anable, Carleton University
Jose Sanchez, USC

Moderator
McLain Clutter, U-M Taubman College

Schedule
2:00 PM Introduction
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Presentations by panelists
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Discussion
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Intermission
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM Guided Tour: "Art In the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today"
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Discussion
6:00 PM Closing

The 2019 Michigan Meeting is co-organized by
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Associate Professor of Communication
McLain Clutter, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Associate Professor of Architecture
Paul Conway, University of Michigan School of Information, Associate Professor of Information
Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Sarah Murray, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Assistant Professor of Film, Television, and Media
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor of American Studies