Society for Phenomenology and Media
22nd Annual International Conference
VIRTUAL FORMAT
Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31, 2020
C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M
FRIDAY, MAY 29
9:00-9:30
Host, Welcome and Introductions
SPM President, Introduction of Officers
9:30-10:00
Panel #1 Social Justice and Idealism
Moderator: Alberto J. L. Carrillo
1. Gerardo De La Fuente
Madness: The phenomenological analysis of commodification
2. Paul Majkut
Immediate Realism
10:00-10:30
Panel #2: Virtual, Visual, and Artificial
Moderator: Melinda Campbell
1. Thomas Arnold
Are Virtual Worlds Really Worlds?
2. Stacey Irwin
Visual Perception in a Digital World
10:30-11:10
Panel #3: Nostalgia, Art, Embodiment
Moderator: Nicola Liberati
1. Melinda Campbell
Knowing through the Body: Understanding the World from the Perspective of the Embodied Mind
2. Cynthia Villagomez
Communication and messages in Mexican Electronic Art
3. Martha Erika, Mateos Genis, Luis Daniel Herrera Romero, and Uriel Hidalgo Lerma
The narrative of animation in vertical format
9:00-9:40
Panel #4 Social Networks
Moderator: Stacey Irwin
1. Olya Kudina
The Everlasting You: The Postphenomenological Analysis of Memory making in the Age of Social Networks
2. Alberto J. L. Carrillo Canán and Marleni Reyes Monreal
Mental Maps and Web Content
3. Jacques Ibanez Bueno and Luis Felipe Ramirez Alvarado
Phenomenological perspectives on the communication modalities of 360 video.
9:40-10:20
Panel #5 Fashion and Play
Moderator: Luis Acebal
1. Remy Demichelis
Can we learn anything from brain simulation? A case against strong AI
2.Alejandra De Las Mercedes Fernandez Robert
The fascination for dolls: a paradox between the hyper-real and foreign objects
3. Lincoln Theo
Estonia’s first ‘Queer’ Literary Character? Phenomenological Liminality as Foundation for Dramatic Irony in Vilde’s Milkman of the Manor
10:20-11:00
Panel #6 Ads, News, and Media-Based Discussion
Moderator: Paul Majkut
1. Nokta Celik
From artwork to ad: Reflections from the social media ads of Art Basel
2. Duygu Onay-Coker
Problematizing Motherhood in TV: Baby Diapers Advertisements
3. Michaela Ott
Dividual subjectivation in the world society
SUNDAY, MAY 31
9:00 – 10:00
Panel #7 Control and Absurdity
Moderator: Gerardo De La Fuente
1.Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay
Media Pseudologies: The Imperatives of Acquisition and Control in Information Society
3. Junichiro Inutsuka
Photo-Graphing as Trajection to raise the question of disclosure
3. Justin Batten and German Duarte
Elucidating the Foundation of Science Fiction by Tracing the Presence of Technē in Black Mirror
4. Luis Acebal
Facing the Absurd: The Joker as Modern Day Sisyphus