setup, part 2a

Hey, Ryan. Wednesday eve. and early Thursday a.m. isn't going to work. I can actually do the setup myself (as long as I know where I'm supposed to be and where the plug-ins are). As Jonathan had said before, we don't actually need a screen--in fact it'll be better without one--but something that divides us from the next presenter (room dividers) somewhat would be helpful, and we need a small table. So in short, point me in the right direction, I'll get started around 8 or 8:30 a.m., and maybe you could just check in with me that morning to make sure I'm not, I don't know, frying the University's circuits? :) Let me know--I'll have my cell phone w/me (909-***-****). --jrr

setup, part 2

Good god, no. With the time difference, 6 a.m. is 3 a.m. my time. :)

Let me check my flight--can't remember offhand when I get in on Wed., and just rolled into my office. --jrr

setup

Hello, Jacqueline.
Things will be pretty hectic on Thursday, with registrations and the inevitable tech scrambling, so I was hoping you might be available very early on Thursday morning (6:00? 7:00? Maybe you could catch the first bus?) or even Wednesday evening would be good, depending on when your flight arrives. If it can't be until after 8:00am on Thursday, then we'll have to meet during one of the concurrent sessions to get everything set up. Hopefully, I can have most of what your need ready to go before you get here.
Just let me know when you're flight arrives, and when you'd prefer to meet up. Thanks.

Ryan

The diagram

emails...and plotting and planning... (Jonathan to Jackie)

Hey, let me know if you got the email I sent to Ryan and cc'd you on re: our tech needs.
We'll need to coordinate when you arrive so he can help you set up, so let us know your travel plans.
Also, what's our timeline now for *Writing Against Composition*? I need a couple of more weeks for more chapter stuff. You?
j.

Re: Watson Installation (Jonathan)

Ryan!
Thanks for calling. Sorry that things have been hurricane crazy in Louisville. Hope you all are recovering...and hope your exams are going well! Best of luck.
As for our installation, I think we're on the same page.
Jackie and I met this past week, and we decided that we need the following:
2 laptops (capable of playing PowerPoint and QuickTime files)
2 projectors (to go with the laptops)
room dividers, if possible.
a large chunk of wall (12x12 would be great, concrete fine) upon which to project various images.
Jackie, am I missing anything?
Ryan, any questions?
Thanks so much, you guys :-)
j.

check this out...

http://www.swenkemedia.com/
--an experiment in global black queer new media

thinking new media and the queer critique together...

In the broadest sense, materiality emerges from the dynamic interplay between the richness of a physically robust world and human intelligence as it crafts this physicality to create meaning
--N. Katherine Hayles

At present, the mass-cultural public sphere continually offers its subjects an array of body images.
--Michael Warner

Dress rehearsal

We spent the day doing a tech run-through in UH 252...

Ever since the “social turn” in composition, at least, compositionists have tended to agree that textuality and identity are intimately related; indeed, one can probably follow this long thread of ethos back to its classical roots. The discussion of identity/textuality formed one of the key arenas for composition scholarship during the ‘90s, at the moments before (and during) that time when our field became enamored of computer network-based curricula. It was a time of great scholarly synergy. Given what we think we know about identity and textuality, we asked, how will the different textual possibilities of cyberspace affect our identities? In cyberspace, will anyone know you’re a dog? Can you be a dog, a man, a woman, a bot, a borg, or something of all of these multiplicitous textual identities at once?

The possibilities were alternately terrifying and exhilarating, but most of us agreed—and still tend to agree—that such shaping of self through text is problematic mostly if what we’re looking for is a unified, coherent self. We see our students’ (and our own) writing being into multiple existence as a potential source of great discursive energy. In many ways, however, these celebrations of new textualities celebrate the disruption of “self” in its material sense. We push the writing body to the side of the stage, perhaps even into the orchestra pit to sit and applaud our brain’s star turn.

We'd like to push back.

Interesting piece on queer spaces

Scott Carey, in his Queer Space as installation, writes:

Queer space is a way of contextualizing my installation practice. In order to describe how my installations may be construed as ‘queer space’ I have associated some theoretical contexts of both ‘queer theory’ and ‘queer space’ that possess a degree of affiliation with characteristics that Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call rhizomatics and arborescence...

Program questions, part 2 (Jackie)

Hi, Ryan. It's true--if my name doesn't appear on the program, I don't get reimbursed for going, and I don't get any professional credit for doing the work; that means that I can't commit to buying the ticket, registering, getting a hotel, and transporting all the materials to Louisville yet. Argh. Is there an updated version of the program available yet? The one online was last updated 8/26. --jrr

Somaesthetics

"...one's body (like one's mind) incorporates its surroundings, going, for example, beyond the conventional body boundary of the epidermis to satisfy its most essential needs of breathing and nutrition. Our bodies (like our thoughts) are thus paradoxically always more and less than our own." -- Richard Shusterman

Balls

I’ve never wanted a penis.
It’s too easy to strap one on and
fuck like a machine, all grooves and
gristle, sleek, oiled,
power.

I like that.
But I like taking it off too.

No, what I want are
balls. Large, hairy, wormy
balls with their persistent
itch, tugging at the limit
of what I
am.

I want to touch myself in public.

Tech needs (Jackie)

We're going to need two laptops/projectors w/DVD drives. We'll bring a third projector. We'll also need a small table (almost cafe-table size). Ideally, we'd have a room to ourselves, but if not, we're certainly going to need a projection space that is a good 12' x 12' as well as room dividers of some sort.

Program questions, part 2 (Jonathan)

Ryan,
Just checking in. I hope to have to you SOON a sense of tech needs and requirements. Nothing drastic--I promise :-)

Question: will there be a large wall against which we can project things? Any sense of dimensions would be great...

In the meantime, I do have a favor to ask. If you could make mention of the exhibit, and our names, in an online brochure or schedule or the Website, that would be STELLAR. To get money to attend, Jackie needs to demonstrate that she's going for a particular purpose, and this kind of professional recognition would do it. I hope this isn't a problem, but feel free to call or email if there are issues or if someone (Debra?) has questions.

THANKS!
j.

facebooking

facebook planning 2

Ok, don't feel unsteady. I'll forward you all correspondence. You're totally included--actually, I think your name is first on the installation. And once we determine tech needs (?), I'll email and ask that we see a draft of the conference scheduled with our installation noted.
Now, for being there. Here's the tricky party. I can't arrive in Louisville until Friday night. I know, it sucks. I failed to realize that I was already booked for something that CANNOT be changed. I didn't worry about it b/c my presentation isn't till Sat. But, of course, the installation means that it would've been better to be there earlier. SO, if you don't mind getting there and setting up for Friday--that would be HUGE. Naturally, I'll be setting up in Irvine in Nov. all by my lonesome, so you can let me know what's what. But, if you can get it set up, great. I'll gladly get to Redlands in the next couple of weeks to help figure out EVERYTHING that needs to be done.
So, talk to me!
j.
BTW, have fun in SF! Hi to the LAW!

Ack! I feel a bit unsteady abt that since you've been the conference contact--they haven't managed to even get my name anywhere in the program yet. What's up?

No, going to today. Been out of town.
I also realized that I might not get to the conference until Friday. We need to talk logistics!

To Jonathan (Jackie)

So I'm filling out the MLA form for technology--do we have any idea what we need? We'll have our own laptops and a projector, but should we ask them for anything?

Item #2--I still haven't bought the ticket/reserved a room for Watson. Will do that today. Are you staying in one of the conference hotels? (Have you booked yet?)

facebook planning

Didja buy your ticket/hotel yet? I haven't.

Program questions, part 1 (Jonathan)

Wonderful!
Jackie and I will confer soon about tech needs--probably today--and get back to you ASAP.

When you have the program up online, would you kindly let me know? Jackie and I would like to document our participation.
Thanks much!
j.

Professor Alexander,
Thanks for the title and abstract of the installation. Tabetha will be
dropping it into the program in the next few days.
Now all we need from you is a list of technical needs (i.e. projector, screen, computer, dvd, player, speakers, etc.) Of course there are some inferences I could make from your description, but given what I know about your work, you're likely to surprise us. In any case, could you let us know what your tech needs will be?
Thanks.
Ryan ****

Pictures for Jonathan, part 2

From the Keynote draft, part of the installation:

Pictures for Jonathan, part 1

We needed more pictures for a fast-changing projection that Jonathan's put together.