Friday, November 13th, 2009
8:00 am - 9:45am
REGISTRATION
Location: 66 Fifth Ave, outside Room 101
10:00 am
OPENING REMARKS
Location: 66 Fifth Ave, Room 101
Bob Kerrey, President The New School
Neil Gordon, Dean Eugene Lang College, The New School
Trebor Scholz, Eugene Lang College, The New School
10:30 am - 1:15 pm
Location: 66 Fifth Ave, Room 101
Session A:
VIRTUAL WORLDS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND SLAUGHTER
Digital Labor, Digital Immigration, and Transnationality, or, Why Virtual Worlds Need a Civil Rights Movement
Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
The Absolute and the Virtual
Alexander Galloway, New York University
Digital Slaughter
Timothy Pachirat, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
Whatever Blogging
Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Moderated by:
Ferentz Lafargue, Eugene Lang College, The New School
10:30 am - 1:15 pm
Location: 66 West 12th Street, Room 404
Session B:
PERFORM OR ELSE: AMAZON.COM'S MECHANICAL TURK
Exploitation and Agency in Amazon Mechanical Turk
Lllly Irani, University of California Irvine
The Digital Securitization of Labor
David Golumbia, University of Virginia
Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of Human/Machine Assemblages
Ayhan Aytes, University of California San Diego
The Mechanical Turk Performance Handbook
Francesco Gagliardi, artist, historian NYC
Moderated by:
Edward Maloney, Georgetown University
10:30 am - 1:15 pm
Location: 66 West 12th Street, Room 407
Session C:
IDEOLOGY AND THE EROTICS OF "PLAYBOR"
On Social Lubrication: Between the Digital and Chthonic
Dominic Pettman, Eugene Lang College and New School for Social Research
The Digital Ideology
Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute
Work Hard, Play Harder—Labor, Playbor, and the Ideology of Play
Julian Kücklich, Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin
Estranged Free Labor
Mark Andrejevic, University of Iowa
Moderated by:
Deborah Levitt, Eugene Lang College, The New School
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Session D:
ARE THE POETS USING YOU?
A Reading from "Implementation," "Mystery House Taken Over," "Book and Volume," and "ppg256"
Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Poetics of Uncreativity
Darren Wershler, Wilfrid Laurier University
Moderated by:
Kate Eichhorn, Eugene Lang College, The New School