Practical information
Technical information
All rooms in our venues are equipped with laptops, projectors, and sound systems and are suitable for playing video and slide shows. Presenters are encouraged to bring their own USB flash drives. Those who wish to use their personal laptops may do so, but Mac users must remember to bring a VGA to DVI adapter.
Transport
The easiest and cheapest way of getting from Trondheim Airport Værnes to Trondheim is the ‘Flybussen' Airport Express coaches. These depart from right outside the arrivals level at the airport (there will be signs) and stop several places in the city centre, e.g. Royal Garden Hotel (within walking distance of our conference hotel, Comfort Hotel) and Hotel Scandic Solsiden (withing walking distance of Dokkhuset, our venue for Wednesday the 26th). A one-way ticket is 100 NOK (a return is 170), and can be purchased on board the coach. Credit cards are accepted.
Hotel
Our conference hotel is Comfort Hotel Trondheim and is situated between our two venues (see map). The hotel's website can be found here: http://www.choicehotels.no/comfort/en/trondheim-hotel-comfort-no105-en?cid=153134&tab=0
Venues
On Wednesday the 26th the whole programme will take place at Dokkhuset (see map). On Thursday the 27th and Friday the 28th, paper sessions and keynote speeches will all be at NOVA conference rooms (see map). A website for this venue can be found here http://www.nova-trondheim.no/en.html
Weather
As of yet we have not experienced any snow this season, but Trondheim weather is notoriously changeable, so we recommend that participants keep a close eye on forecasts and pack accordingly. A weather forecast for Trondheim in English can be found here: http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Sør-Trøndelag/Trondheim/Trondheim/
Map
A map of Trondheim with the conference venues and hotel can be found here: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=210360368079748804612.0004af3ec31237c3fd61d&msa=0
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The tower block – post mortem:
- An installation from the life of a memory blog and a performance.
In this exhibition you can see glimpses from the interactive media event in which memories where gathered and given back in a performance/ritual in which the people of Trondheim said farewell to the building. It all circled around a memory blog where people shared their memories. This became the site where the performance took shape.
Welcome to our room of memories !
A production by The Tower-Block Team: Andreas Bergsland, Håkon Fyhn, Andreas Schille, Andreas R. Sund, Barbro Rønning. Guest artist: Birgit Kvamme Lundheim
Time and place: Thursdag 27 and Friday 28 from 10.15-15.30
At Theatre Avant Garden - Entrance from Nova conference center.
Tactical Performance Workshop with Larry Bogad
Thursday 27th October at 17.00 - at Theater Avant Garden (same building as Nova Conference venue)
NB! Free attendance for participants at Media Acts, but places are limited.
Interested participants can book a place by sending an email beforehand to l.m.bogad@gmail.com.
Larry Bogad works in the intersection between art and activism, and on humor, imagination, and surprise as vital tools for social movements. He writes, performs, and strategizes with groups such as the Yes Men (www.theyesmen.org) and La Pocha Nostra. He is the author of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements (Routledge, 2005) and many essays about politics and performance. Bogad is the founding Director of the West Coast branch of the Center for Artistic Activism. He is an Associate Professor of political performance at University of California at Davis, where he teaches classes such as "Satire, Irony and Protest," and "Oppositional Performance and Social Movements."
For the Media Acts conference, professor, author, and activist Larry Bogad will host a "Tactical Performance" workshop. Bogad has led these workshops most recently in revolutionary Cairo, Buenos Aires, London and Reykjavik and across the USA.
Participants will look at techniques to help social movements and individuals communicate their ideas to larger audiences, challenge power relations in public space and pressure authorities in a nonviolent but effective way. The workshop will focus on protest actions that intend to intervene in the public imagination and "interrupt the hegemonologue" through the media, either print or digital. Many concrete examples will be explored, verbally and with video, such as the American civil rights movement, and more playful examples such as the work of the "Oil Enforcement Agency," the "Glacier Ice Cream Give-away," the Clown Army, and others.
Participants will be guided into imagining and beginning to design their own "media act."
Registration
The conference fee is NOK 1800 and includes a reception and concert on Wednesday, as well as lunch and light refreshments throughout the day on Thursday and Friday.
On Thursday there will be a banquet dinner for presenters and invited guests. For this there will be an additional fee.
REGISTRATION FORM
September 25th is the closing date.
Our conference hotel will be Comfort Hotel Trondheim. We have reserved room for all participants, but a reservation must be made by the participants themselves. If you submit the referencenumber 44722 when you make the reservation, you will recieve the conference rate at NOK 895 per night (NOK 1095 for a double). The deadline for making reservations is September 25th.
Media Acts - NorSIS 2011 - Call for papers
Recent technological changes that involve digitization have been claimed to erase the differences among individual media and fundamentally to alter the conditions of perception and experience. In the art world, formerly dominant conceptions of art forms such as poetry, painting, sculpture, and even video art, which in the 1960s were codified as channeled sensory portals, have been replaced by blurred domains of new media art, of sound art and tangible media. What, then, in the current situation, does the disputed concept of ‘medium' mean? Certainly, media still matter – but why, how and in what ways? The 10th NorSIS international conference addresses these questions by changing focus from what a medium is (in terms of substantial characteristics) to what media do.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Jacques Rancière, University of Paris (St-Denis)
- James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Sara Danius, Södertörn University College
- Frederik Tygstrup, University of Copenhagen
- Aud Sissel Hoel, NTNU
Keynotes
Sara Danius is a literary scholar and critic and Professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University College, Sweden.
Her research interests include critical theory, literary modernism, and the relationship between media, society, technology, and the senses. Danius is the author of numerous books, including Prousts motor (2000), The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics (2002), The prose of the world: Flaubert and the art of making things visible (2006), Röster/Voices: Samtida svensk keramisk konst/Contemporary ceramic art from Sweden (2006), and Nase für Neuigkeiten: Vermischte Nachrichten von James Joyce (with Hanns Zischler, 2008).
Frederik Tygstrup is Associate Professor of literature studies at Copenhagen University.
Tygstrup has published widely on topics such as European literature, aesthetics and politics, and the spatial dimensions of art. Selected publications by Tygstrup include: "Litteratur og politik" (with Isak Winkel Holm), Kultur og klasse (2007), Witness: Memory, Representation, and the Media in Question (with Ulrik Ekman, 2008), "Livets rum, erindringens form: W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz og vidnesbyrdlitteraturen" (with Isak Winkel Holm), Passage (2008), and Illness in Context (with Knut Stene-Johansen, 2010), "Literære kartografier" Boeygen (2010).
Jacques Rancière is a Philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the Université de Paris, St. Denis. He is also Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.
Rancière has published on a wide range of topics including pedagogy, the writing of history, philosophy, cinema, aesthetics, and contemporary art. In recent years his aesthetic theory has become a point of reference in the visual arts. Translated works by Rancière include: Reading Capital (1968), The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1989), The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1991), The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (2004), The Future of the Image (2007), Hatred of Democracy (2007), The Aesthetic Unconscious (2009), The Emancipated Spectator (2009), Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (2010), and Politics of Literature (2011).
James Elkins is an Art Historian and an Art Critic, and E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He also coordinates the Stone Summer Theory Institute, a short term school on contemporary art history based at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Elkins' writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature. His writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature. Some of his books are exclusively on fine art: Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? (1999) and What Painting Is (2000); others include scientific and non-art images, writing systems, and archaeology: On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them (1998) and The Domain of Images (2001); and some are about natural history: How to Use Your Eyes (2008). Other books include: The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing (1997), Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis (1999), Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction (2003), Visual Practices Across the University (2007).
Aud Sissel Hoel is Associate Professor of Visual Communication at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
She coordinates the priority research area PerFormativity at the Faculty of Humanities at NTNU and directs the interdisciplinary research project Picturing the Brain: Perspectives on Neuroimaging (2010-2013). Hoel's research revolves around the workings and functions of images, including photography, science images, and technologies of vision. Selected publications by Hoel include: Fremstilling og teknikk: Om bildet som formativt medium (dissertation, 2005); Ernst Cassirer, Form og teknikk: Utvalgte tekster, co-edited with Ingvild Folkvord (2006); Maktens bilder (2007), "Thinking ‘Difference' Differently: Cassirer versus Derrida on Symbolic Mediation," Synthese, (2011), "Differential Images," in What is an Image? (forthcoming), edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef; "Technics of Thinking," in Form and Technology: Reading Ernst Cassirer from the Present (forthcoming), edited by Aud Sissel Hoel and Ingvild Folkvord.
Download Programme
Programme can be downloaded in PDF here.
