Symposium Schedule Our programming is still growing and taking shape. We will be sharing the full lineup soon. Friday, March 6, 2026 01:00PM to 5:00PM Workshops Workshop SudoMagic's Digital Reconstructions: Sculpting Digital Forms with TouchDesigner 5:00PM to 7:00PM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Reception 6:00PM to 7:00PM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Expanded Media Opening & Toast 7:00PM to 8:00PM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Opening Keynote by Paula Gaetano Adi 10:00PM to 12:00AM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Friday Social Hour Saturday, March 7, 2026 8:30AM to 9:00AM Performances Performance Ritual Unbinding of an Amazon Alexa Alan Perry 8:30AM to 9:00AM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Saturday Refreshments & Ritual Alan Perry 9:00AM to 11:00AM Presentations Presentation Panel Slow Servers, Long Cycles, and Temporalities Beyond Acceleration Carrie Hott, Isabel Beavers, Liat Berdugo, Dorothy R. Santos Presentation Panel Belonging, Adaptation and Regeneration in Environmental Media of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Ila N. Sheren, Camilla Fojas, Celina Osuna, Cristina Correa, Diana Flores Ruíz, Tara Plath 9:00AM to 11:00AM Workshops Workshop 2 hr XR Artwork with Godot (No Experience Required) JLS Gangwisch Workshop 2hr Gambiarra: Resilience As Futurism Pedro de Oliveira, Xuedi Chen 11:15AM to 1:15PM Presentations Presentation 20 min Digital Resurrection: Performing Stephen Cripps’ Fire Machines Trey Burns Presentation 20 min how to breathe underwater: Photogrammetry in Lost Places Mollye Bendell Presentation 20 min Sustaining Digital Tools: the Clinic for Open Source Arts Chris Coleman Presentation 20 min The Decoys Inbar Hagai Presentation 20 min “Do you want to hear a story?”: Laurie Anderson and the Sensory Potential of the Video Game Erin Gordon Presentation 20 min Creative Disruptions: AI, Memes, and Social Media Peter Kusek 11:15AM to 1:15PM Workshops Workshop 2 hr Hand-Coding as Restoration: Reclaiming the Web One Site at a Time emily d'achiardi Workshop 2 hr Making Bioplastics with Memories and Feelings Beile Hu 2:15PM to 4:15PM Presentations Presentation 20 min Abstraction and Obfuscation: Tactics for Trans Visibility in New Media Art Chelsea Thompto Presentation 20 min Superkilogirls: on labor, bodies, and machines Camila Galaz Presentation 20 min It takes many ghosts to touch the ground Nadav Assor Presentation 20 min Post-Human Perspectives Analyzing Gender, Identity, and Technology in Barbara Kruger's Art and Donna Haraway's Cyborg Theory Rose Ansari Presentation 20 min Exploring Restoration/ Regeneration through Artmaking Sandro Del Rosario Presentation 20 min Digital Puppetry and the Animistic Lineage of Motion Capture: Histories of Avatars in Contemporary Digital Culture Jonah King 2:15PM to 4:15PM Workshops Workshop 1hr The Crafting Digital Narratives Workshop Amanda Stojanov Workshop 1hr Static is the Spellwork: A workshop on KDZU’s Tactical Mythmaking and Interventionist Field Studies Rob Ray 4:30PM to 6:30PM Presentations Presentation Panel Healing through Performance: Far-Reaching Connections Between Restorative Acts Brenda Vega, Tina Vahed, Zahra Jafarpour Presentation 20 min Tech-taal: Regenerating the Embodied Heritage of Bharatanatyam through Multisensory Restoration and Machine Learning Nishra Ranpura Presentation 20 min Practicing Future Memory through Regenerative Rituals Alisha Harris Presentation 20 min Regeneration, Ritual, and the Divine Feminine in Augmented Italian Landscapes Brita d'Agostino 4:30PM to 6:30PM Workshops Workshop 2 hr Design a Resilient Future with More-than-human agency Shihan Zhang Workshop 1hr Critical Fabulation, Digital Archives and Infrastructure Infiltration Anshul Roy 8:00PM to 10:00PM Performances Performance Noma Tongues Yiou Wang, Raven Tao Performance Anger at the Asteroid for 3 Corythosaurus Skull Musical Instruments and Saxophone Courtney Brown 10:00PM to 12:00AM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Saturday Social Hour Sunday, March 8, 2026 8:30AM to 9:00AM Performances Performance House Oracle Jai Knight 8:30AM to 9:00AM Social Gatherings Social Gathering Sunday Refreshments & Ritual Jai Knight 9:00AM to 11:00AM Presentations Presentation 20min Chasing the Sun: Restoring Evolving Understandings of Geological Time Joelle Dietrick, Owen Mundy Presentation 20 min Hybrid Matter: Building New Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies Using Sustainable Art Practices Darya Warner Presentation 20 min Image Restoration: The High-Impact Practice of Turning Tragedy into Pedagogical Success Rebekah Alviani Presentation 20 min It’s Hard for A.I. to Connect the Dots (and Other Findings from a Rigorous Study) Loraine Wible Presentation 20 min Authenticity and Traceability for Artists in the Age of Generative AI Mona Kasra 9:00AM to 11:00AM Workshops Workshop 2 hr Methods and Opportunities in TouchDesigner: Generative Performance Media Rose Ansari Workshop 3 hours The Hallucinating Archive Christopher Meerdo 11:15AM to 12:15PM Presentations Presentation 20 min More than Buildings: Experimental Preservation and Traces of the Intangible Milad H. Mozari 11:15AM to 12:15PM Workshops Workshop 1 hr Technomantic Coding: Sigilization and Processing Alan Perry 11:15AM to 1:15PM Presentations Presentation 20 min BioEconomic futures Shihan Zhang Presentation 20 min Invasive Aesthetics: Restoring the Unwanted e clayton scofield, Eli Rodriguez Fielder Presentation 20 min Shareable Biome: Microbes and Collective Responsibility
