Restoration /Regeneration

the New Media Caucus Symposium

March 6-8, 2026

Arizona State University

Restoration /Regeneration

the New Media Caucus Symposium

March 6-8, 2026

Arizona State University

Symposium Schedule

Friday, March 6, 2026

10:00AM to 5:00PM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering
All Day

Friday Registration & Badging

Friday, March 6, 2026
10:00AM to 5:00PM
1st Floor Lobby

01:00PM to 5:00PM Workshops

Workshop

SudoMagic's Digital Reconstructions: Sculpting Digital Forms with TouchDesigner

Friday, March 6, 2026
01:00PM to 5:00PM
First Floor - Soundstage 3 (123)

5:00PM to 7:00PM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering
2 hrs

Reception

Friday, March 6, 2026
5:00PM to 7:00PM
1st Floor Lobby

6:00PM to 7:00PM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering
1 hour

Expanded Media Opening & Toast

Friday, March 6, 2026
6:00PM to 7:00PM
1st Floor Lobby

7:00PM to 8:00PM Social Gatherings

Opening Keynote by Paula Gaetano Adi
Social Gathering
1h 30min

Opening Keynote by Paula Gaetano Adi

Paula Gaetano Adi
Friday, March 6, 2026
7:00PM to 8:00PM
2nd Floor Screening Room

8:30PM to 10:00PM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering
1 hr 30 min

Friday Screenings

Friday, March 6, 2026
8:30PM to 10:00PM
MIX Center Plaza

10:00PM to 12:00AM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering

Friday Social Hour

Friday, March 6, 2026
10:00PM to 12:00AM
TBD

Saturday, March 7, 2026

8:30AM to 9:00AM Performances

Ritual unbinding of an Amazon Alexa, smoke, and tablecloth
Performance

Ritual Unbinding of an Amazon Alexa

Alan Perry
Saturday, March 7, 2026
8:30AM to 9:00AM
Enhanced Immersion Studio

8:30AM to 9:00AM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering

Saturday Refreshments

Saturday, March 7, 2026
8:30AM to 9:00AM
1st Floor Lobby
Social Gathering
All Day

Saturday Registration & Badging

Saturday, March 7, 2026
8:30AM to 9:00AM
1st Floor Lobby

9:00AM to 10:00AM Presentations

Presentation
1hr Panel

Slow Servers, Long Cycles, and Temporalities Beyond Acceleration

Carrie Hott, Isabel Beavers, Liat Berdugo, Dorothy R. Santos
Saturday, March 7, 2026
9:00AM to 10:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room

9:00AM to 11:00AM Workshops

Workshop
2 hr

XR Artwork with Godot (No Experience Required)

JLS Gangwisch
Saturday, March 7, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
Computer Lab 0 - 2nd Floor (228)
Workshop
2hr

Gambiarra: Resilience As Futurism

Pedro de Oliveira, Xuedi Chen
Saturday, March 7, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
Production Shop - 1st Floor

10:00AM to 11:00AM Presentations

Presentation
1hr 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
Saturday, March 7, 2026
10:00AM to 11:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room

11:15AM to 12:15PM Presentations

Presentation
15 min

how to breathe underwater: Photogrammetry in Lost Places

Mollye Bendell
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Sustaining Digital Tools: the Clinic for Open Source Arts

Chris Coleman
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Creative Disruptions: AI, Memes, and Social Media

Peter Kusek
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room

11:15AM to 1:15PM Workshops

Workshop
2 hr

Making Bioplastics with Memories and Feelings

Beile Hu
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:15AM to 1:15PM
Fabrication Lab - 1st Floor
Workshop
2 hr

*Cancelled* Hand-Coding as Restoration: Reclaiming the Web One Site at a Time

emily d'achiardi
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:15AM to 1:15PM
Computer Lab 1 - 2nd Floor (232)

12:15PM to 1:15PM Presentations

Presentation
15 min

Digital Resurrection: Performing Stephen Cripps’ Fire Machines

Trey Burns
Saturday, March 7, 2026
12:15PM to 1:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

The Decoys

Inbar Hagai
Saturday, March 7, 2026
12:15PM to 1:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

“Do you want to hear a story?”: Laurie Anderson and the Sensory Potential of the Video Game

Erin Gordon
Saturday, March 7, 2026
12:15PM to 1:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room

1:00PM to 2:00PM Single-Channel Videos

Single-Channel Video
46 min 30 sec

Dirt Nap

Rick Silva
Saturday, March 7, 2026
1:00PM to 2:00PM
MIX Center Exterior Video Wall

2:15PM to 4:15PM Presentations

Presentation
15 min

Abstraction and Obfuscation: Tactics for Trans Visibility in New Media Art

Chelsea Thompto
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

A Tool for Modern Times: Roses, Romance, and the Early PC

Camila Galaz
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Post-Human Perspectives Analyzing Gender, Identity, and Technology in Barbara Kruger's Art and Donna Haraway's Cyborg Theory

Rose Ansari
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Exploring Restoration/ Regeneration through Artmaking

Sandro Del Rosario
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Digital Puppetry and the Animistic Lineage of Motion Capture: Histories of Avatars in Contemporary Digital Culture

Jonah King
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
1st Floor Screening Room

2:15PM to 4:15PM Workshops

Workshop
1hr

The Crafting Digital Narratives Workshop

Amanda Stojanov
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
Computer Lab 0 - 2nd Floor (228)
Workshop
1hr

Static is the Spellwork: A workshop on KDZU’s Tactical Mythmaking and Interventionist Field Studies

Rob Ray
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:15PM to 4:15PM
Fabrication Lab - 1st Floor

4:30PM to 5:30PM Presentations

Presentation
15 min

Tech-taal: Regenerating the Embodied Heritage of Bharatanatyam through Multisensory Restoration and Machine Learning

Nishra Ranpura
Saturday, March 7, 2026
4:30PM to 5:30PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Practicing Future Memory through Regenerative Rituals

Alisha Harris
Saturday, March 7, 2026
4:30PM to 5:30PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Regeneration, Ritual, and the Divine Feminine in Augmented Italian Landscapes

Brita d'Agostino
Saturday, March 7, 2026
4:30PM to 5:30PM
2nd Floor Screening Room

4:30PM to 6:30PM Workshops

Workshop
2 hr

Design a Resilient Future with More-than-human agency

Shihan Zhang
Saturday, March 7, 2026
4:30PM to 6:30PM
Flex Room - 3rd Floor
Workshop
1hr

Critical Fabulation, Digital Archives and Infrastructure Infiltration

Anshul Roy
Saturday, March 7, 2026
4:30PM to 6:30PM
Computer Lab 1 - 2nd Floor (232)

5:30PM to 6:30PM Presentations

Presentation
1 hr Panel

Healing through Performance: Far-Reaching Connections Between Restorative Acts

Brenda Vega, Tina Vahed, Zahra Jafarpour
Saturday, March 7, 2026
5:30PM to 6:30PM
2nd Floor Screening Room

8:00PM to 10:00PM Performances

Noma Tongues
Performance

Noma Tongues

Yiou Wang, Raven Tao
Saturday, March 7, 2026
8:00PM to 10:00PM
Enhanced Immersion Studio
Anger at the Asteroid for 3 Corythosaurus Skull Musical Instruments and Saxophone
Performance

Anger at the Asteroid for 3 Corythosaurus Skull Musical Instruments and Saxophone

Courtney Brown
Saturday, March 7, 2026
8:00PM to 10:00PM
Enhanced Immersion Studio

10:00PM to 12:00AM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering

Saturday Social Hour

Saturday, March 7, 2026
10:00PM to 12:00AM
TBD

Sunday, March 8, 2026

8:30AM to 9:00AM Performances

Cards from House Oracle
Performance

House Oracle

Jai Knight
Sunday, March 8, 2026
8:30AM to 9:00AM
Enhanced Immersion Studio

8:30AM to 9:00AM Social Gatherings

Social Gathering

Sunday Refreshments

Sunday, March 8, 2026
8:30AM to 9:00AM
Enhanced Immersion Studio
Social Gathering
All Day Until 12PM

Sunday Registration & Badging

Sunday, March 8, 2026
8:30AM to 9:00AM
1st Floor Lobby

9:00AM to 11:00AM Presentations

Presentation
15 min

Chasing the Sun: Restoring Evolving Understandings of Geological Time

Joelle Dietrick, Owen Mundy
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Hybrid Matter: Building New Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies Using Sustainable Art Practices

Darya Warner
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Image Restoration: The High-Impact Practice of Turning Tragedy into Pedagogical Success

Rebekah Alviani
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

It’s Hard for A.I. to Connect the Dots (and Other Findings from a Rigorous Study)

Loraine Wible
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Authenticity and Traceability for Artists in the Age of Generative AI

Mona Kasra
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
1st Floor Screening Room

9:00AM to 11:00AM Workshops

Workshop
2 hr

Methods and Opportunities in TouchDesigner: Generative Performance Media

Rose Ansari
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 11:00AM
Computer Lab 0 - 2nd Floor (228)

9:00AM to 12:15PM Workshops

Workshop
3 hours

The Hallucinating Archive

Christopher Meerdo
Sunday, March 8, 2026
9:00AM to 12:15PM
Computer Lab 1 - 2nd Floor (232)

11:15AM to 12:15PM Presentations

Presentation
15 min

More than Buildings: Experimental Preservation and Traces of the Intangible

Milad H. Mozari
Sunday, March 8, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

BioEconomic futures

Shihan Zhang
Sunday, March 8, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room
Presentation
15 min

Invasive Aesthetics: Restoring the Unwanted

e clayton scofield, Eli Rodriguez Fielder
Sunday, March 8, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
2nd Floor Screening Room

11:15AM to 12:15PM Workshops

Workshop
1 hr

Technomantic Coding: Sigilization and Processing

Alan Perry
Sunday, March 8, 2026
11:15AM to 12:15PM
Computer Lab 0 - 2nd Floor (228)