Tuning Speculation VI Schedule!

The workshop will take place at The Back Door, located at 207 S. College Ave, Bloomington, unless noted otherwise. 

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Registration for presenters can be found herehttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tuning-speculation-vi-tickets-50424409767

Thursday, November 1, 2018

8:00 – 10:00 PM — OPENING RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE!
Heather and Seth Warren-Crow performing “Exonumia” 
Delinquent Gallery, 300 E. 3rd St. Suite D.

Friday, November 2

8:45 – Doors open

9:30 – 11:00 — Keynote 1

Jayna Brown — A Fierce Organicism: Ecologies of Enmeshment in Speculative Sound and Art

11:15 – 12:45 — Panel 1 — ASIGNIFICANCE

  • Bethany Doane — The Scream is a Signal: Occult Anti-Hermeneutics  
  • Trace Reddell — Decoding the Sonic Xenomorph  
  • Katherine Behar — What Sense Makes: From Sensors to the Production of Cryptographic Consciousness 

12:45 – 2:00 — Lunch provided for all presenters.

2:00 – 3:30 — Panel 2 — SPECULATIVE EMPTINESS

  • Jasmine Shadrack — The Howl of the Wolf Tone: Void Harmonics and Occultizing Entropy 
  • Nicola Masciandaro — Marvelous Harmony: On Christina the Astonishing — Part III: Sounding

3:45 – 5:45 — Panel 3 — VOICES, FACES, BODIES

  • Yvette Granata — Deep-Fake Mimicry: On Primordial Steganography and Post-Cyberfeminist Voice 
  • N. Adriana Knouf — Notes toward Xenomogrifcation 
  • Germán SierraThe Poetics of Non-biology 

6:00 – 7:30 — Dinner on your own

7:45 – 10:00 — Ritual workshop with Evan Torner and Kat Jones.
Courtyard Marriott, 310 S. College Ave

Saturday, November 3

9:30 – 11:00 — Panel 4 — HISTORIES & HYPERSTITIONS

  • Jacquelene Drinkall Radical Listening and Improvised Telepathy Aesthetics (after Pauline Oliveros, Sun Ra and Gianni Motti) 
  • Patrick KindigOn Occult Amulets and Decadent Aesthetics 
  • Julian Gill-Peterson — Greer Lankton’s Living Room; or, the Occulting of Trans History 

11:15 – 12:45 — Panel 5 — IMPOSSIBILITIES

  • Steven Nathaniel — Geophonic Listening and the (Occulted) First World War
  • Sandra HuberVillains, Ghosts, and Roses, or, How to Speak with the Dead 
  • Anne Delgado — Death-Defying Acts and the “’Sister Art of Magic’”

12:45 – 2:00 — LUNCH & FILM SCREENING

  • Jacqueline Drinkall, Emergency Alfoil Anthrop 
2:00 – 3:30 — Panel 6 — POLITICS
 
  • Geraldine Finn — As I was saying... 
  • Daniel Lukes — Bad Rainbows: Queerness, Fascism, and Counterculture 
  • G. Doug Barrett — How We Were Never (Post-)Human: Techniques of the Posthuman Body in Pamela Z’s Voci.
3:45 – 5:15 — Panel 7 — THE OCCULTURE 
 
  • David Cecchetto  Dataphasic Inversions
  • Marc Couroux — the extra_musical
  • Ted Hiebert — TBA!
  • Eldritch Priest — TBA!
  • Rebekah Sheldon — TBA!

5:15 – 7:30 — DINNER

7:30 – 9:00 — KEYNOTE 2

Joyelle McSweeney — Dark Sonics

9:00 – 10:00 — SOUND PERFORMANCE

Kurt Zemlicka (Rhetoric, English at Indiana University), Synthesizer

Michael R. Johnson (ApertomeSoftware Engineer), Multi-Instrumentalist
 

11:00 – 12:00 — OCCULT-THEMED DRAG SHOW!

Sunday, November 4

location change: Courtyard Marriott, 310 S. College Ave!

9:30 – 11:30 — Panel 8 — RESONANCES, VIBRATIONS, & TIME

  • Phil Ford  Here Time Becomes Space: Resonance and Diviner's Time 
  • Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman  Musiconomy and Morphogenesis: Refrains of Culture, Crystals of Time 
  • Jonathan Scott Lee  Becoming-Cicada-Becoming-Imperceptible: Toward a Hermetic Account of Music 

11:45 – 1:15 — Panel 9 — TRACES

  • Jonathan Elmer  Making a Sensation
  • Émile Fromet de Rosnay Becoming an antenna: seismopoetics and embodiment  
  • Sam Martin — Palaeohauntological Lithophonics 

 Wrap-Up!

Generously sponsored by the College Arts and Humanities Institute, the Office for the Vice Provost for Research’s Grant in Aid and Public Arts Grant, and the English Department at Indiana University.  

Occultural Logo by Erica Isaacson.