Program

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES IN THE PROGRAM (updated at 4:30 pm, Oct 16)


OCTOBER 18, Friday

8:00 am - 8:45 am - Continental Breakfast (Community Gallery) / Registration (Centre Gallery)

8:45 am - 9:00 am - Opening remarks, conference greeting by:

                                      Nick Dyer-Witheford, Acting Dean of FIMS

                                      Christopher Keep, Acting Director of CSTC
                                      LEDC

9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Jodi Dean - Affective Collectivity: Apps and Drive (Lecture Theatre)

10:30 am - 10:45 am    Coffee (All locations)

10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 1: GAMIFICATION (Lecture Theatre)

• Moderator: Dan Mellamphy
• Aubrey Anable (University of Toronto) - Indie Game Apps and the Aesthetics of Failure
• Jessica Thom (Western) - A Hundred Points is Not Equivalent to A Hundred Pounds: The Gamification of Healthcare, Fitness, and Social Wellness
•  Matthew Tiessen (Ryerson University) - The Gamification 'App'aratus: Incentivizing the Digital Modulation of Affect and Agency

10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 2: REGULATIONS OF AFFECT (Board Room)

• Moderator: Nandita Biswas Mellamphy 
• Henry Adam Svec (Western) - Sing Out: Smule Apps, Apple, and the Folk
•  Jeremy Wade Morris (University of Wisconsin-Madison) -Enhanced and Disenchanted: App Albums and the Commodification of Digital Music
•  Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen (University of Southern Denmark) - Apps and Affects in Museum Communication

10:45 am - 12:00 am - Panel 3: CulturePlex (Community Gallery)

• CulturePlex in Arts and Humanities

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch (Community Gallery)

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Panel 4: APPS FOR THAT (Board Room)

•  Moderator: Carole Farber
• Robbie Cormier (Stony Brook University) - Outside the Box: Wolfram|Alpha and Automated Creativity (APP)
•  Gemma Richardson (Western) - Feeling Suicidal? There's an App for That
•  Julie Ann Wilson & Emily Chivers Yochim (Allegheny College) - Mommy Apps: Keeping the Family ‘Happy’ in Digital Media Culture

2:00 PM - 3:15 pm Workshop with  Paul Caplan (University of Southampton) (Community Gallery)

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee (All locations)

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 5: LOCATIVE GAMES / APPS (Board Room)

•  Moderator: Ben Woodard
• Jennifer Martin (Western) - Limiting the Lived Environment: Capital and Location-Based Social Networking
•  Sarah Thorne (Carleton University) - Appending Reality: Fantasizing About Play in Locative Games
•  Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, NZ) - Running with the Digital: Affect and the App/prosthetic

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 6: UBIQUITY, LABOUR, AND DATA MANAGEMENT (Lecture Theatre)

• Moderator: Liam Young
•  Vincent Manzerolle (Western) - Everything, Everywhere, Always: An Archaeology of Immediacy
• Atle Mikkola Kjøsen  (Western) - The Apps Economy: When Money Attracts Commodities

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Break & Dinner on your own

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Keynote: Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - Sounding Turing's Cathedral (Community Gallery)

8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Reception (Community Gallery) - begins / new audience

 8:30 pm - midnight - Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - Concert / General Public

                                    (more about this event: HERE)

OCTOBER 19, Saturday

 8:00 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast (Community Gallery)

9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Alexander Galloway - Three Middles: Mediation in Networks (Lecture Theatre)

 10:30 am - 10:45 am - Coffee (All locations)

10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 7: PASSIVE / ACTIVE INTERACTIONS (Board Room)

• Moderator: Liam Young
• Paul Caplan  (University of Southampton) - We’re all remix artists now: everyday remix, apps and objects
• Svitlana Matviyenko  (Western) - Technique and Interpassivity
• Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University) - Grindr and the Formation of New Pornographic Narratives: Screening, (Dis)simulation, and Databanks

10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 8: MOST EXCELLENT PLATFORMS (Lecture Theatre)

• Moderator: Warren Steele 
• Rebecca Halliday (York University) - Electric Ambience’: Mobile Photo Apps and the Mediation of Affect In and Outside of the Fashion Show Tent
• Frederik Lesage  (Simon Fraser University) - Photoshop: Lives of the Most Excellent Platforms, Software and Applications
• Sara Swain  (York University) - Tablets of Testimony: How Apps for Apes Illuminates the Affective Dimension of Communication

10:45 am - 12:00 pm - Panel 9: PRODUCTION OF AFFECT (Community Gallery)

• Moderator: Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
• Jeremy Hunsinger  (Wilfred Laurier University) - The culture of fear and anxiety in the age of the App
• Mark Hayward  (York University) - Minitel Rose: Secure Networks and Online Intimacy

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch (Community Gallery)

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Keynote: Ed Keller - Post-Planetary Sublime: Science Fiction and Apps (Lecture Theatre)

 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm - Coffee (All Locations)

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 10: DIGITAL GHETTOS AND FRONTIERS (Community Gallery)

• Moderator: Vincent Manzerolle
• Adeel Khamisa  (Carleton University) - How Apple uses hardware to keep regulators out of its semiautonomous walled garden
• Michael Daubs (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) and Vincent Manzerolle  (Western) - Appertunity Knocks? App-centric media and the Diminishing Possibility of an Open Web
• Michael McNally  (University of Alberta) - From the Pedestrian Route Production Patent to the Avoid Ghetto App: The Effects of the Dominance of a Narrative on Race in the Media's Construction of the Avoid Ghetto App

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 11: APP ECONOMY (Board Room)

• Moderator: Sarah Roberts
• Greig de Peuter (Wilfred Laurier University) and  Enda Brophy (SFU) - The Mobile Circuit of Exploitation
• Alexandre Macmillan & Damian Charrieras  (City University of Hong Kong) - Capitalizing on affect: Social networks and micro-transactions in mobile video games application
• Michael William Palm  (UNC, Chapel Hill) - Magic Touch: Transaction Apps and the Political Economy of Swiping

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Panel 12: AESTHETICS, TECHNICS, POLITICS OF THE APP (Lecture Theatre)

• Moderator: Atle Mikkola Kjøsen 
• Andrew Iliadis  (Purdue University) - Individuation and Infostructure: The Aesthetics of Applicative Thinking
• Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Western) - Planet of the Apps: Coming to Terms with our New Overlords

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm - Coffee / Snack (All locations)

5:15 pm - 6:45 pm - Keynote: Patricia Clough - The Philosophical Carpentry of the App (Lecture Theatre)

 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Dinner together

OCTOBER 20, Sunday

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast (Community Gallery)

9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Mark Andrejevic - Auto-Affect: Technologies of Self-Regulation in the App Economy (Lecture Theatre)

 10:30 am - 10:45 am - Coffee (All Locations)

10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 13: DIGITAL LABOUR WITH AFFECT (Board Room)

• Moderator: Giles Whitaker
• Renyi Hong  (USC) - Neoliberal laboring practices in prosumer culture
• Nick Dyer-Witheford  (Western) - App Worker
• Andrew Herman  (Wilfred Laurier) - Media Materialities, Affective Labour and the Moral Economy of a ‘Mobile Media Ecology'

10:45 am - 12:00 pm - Panel 14: IMAGINARY FUTURE IN THE PAST OF APPS (Community Gallery)

• Moderator: Christopher Keep
• Jamie Rooney  (Western) - Digital Apporias and Evolutions: Posthuman Trauma, Mourning and Melancholia
• Brian Greenspan  (Carleton University) - The Last App: Archaeologies of Future Media

10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 15: GAZE, TRACKING, SURVEILLANCE (Lecture Theatre)

•  Moderator: Carole Farber
• Jennifer Hambleton  (Western) - De-coding Gesture
• Alison Hearn  (Western) - Apps, Influence and Social Scoring
• Aaron Trammell (Rutgers University) - A Brief History of Biogamification

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch (Community Gallery)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Panel 16: NEW HAPPINESS AND NEW SOLITUDES (Board Room)

• Moderator: Alison Hearn
• Tamara Shepherd  (Ryerson University) and Leslie Regan Shade  (University of Toronto) - Feeling ‘meh’ about it: Affective dimensions of the privacy paradox in mobile apps
• Donald Calabrese  (Western) - 'And each man fixed his eyes before his feet': The Waste Land app and the new solitude

1:30 pm - 3:00pm - Panel 17: GHOSTLY IDENTITIES (Lecture Theatre)

• Moderator:  David Miller 
• Kane Faucher (Western) - App as Non-Apparition: The Counter-Alethic Functio
• Marc Ménard, André Mondoux, Maxime Ouellet, Maude Bonenfant (Quebec University, Montreal) - I Know Who You Are: You Are Here
• Tanya Kant (University of Sussex) - 'All your stories, all your apps, the perfect way to express who you are': Facebook apps and the commodification of personal profiles

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm - Coffee (All locations)

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm - Keynote: Melissa Gregg - Hack for Good, or Else (Community Gallery)

4:45 pm - 5:30 pm - Concluding remarks:

                                 Alison Hearn, concerence organizer

                                 Svitlana Matviyenko, conference organizer

                                 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, conference organizer