SAA 2015

"Shakespeare and the Book" seminar

exceptions -- how to read them?

"ENTAILMENT" -- Michael Witmore and Jonathan Hope on genre; genre "entails" certain pronouns

Nehemas, "Writer Text Work Author" -- alternative to Foucault's "What is an Author?"

Puttenham on parentheses

"Shakespeare and the Cut" plenary

Bruce Smith, "Rethinking the Cut in an Age of Distraction

• fetishizing cuts today
• omissions only became 'cuts' in 1670s; 18c 'cut' becomes established term, perhaps because of editions
• film gave the term new currency
• need a phenomenology of cutting: perception, materials/technology, aesthetics
• Smock Alley promptbooks, late 17c, Dublin; G. Blakemore Evans argument about them
• cutwork in construction of Shx mss
• "seamed" -- Cavendish uses this term as a metaphor for writing plays
• importance of cutwork in costumes
• Burroughs -- Shakespeare cut-ups; Los Angeles Museum of Art (most cuts have already been processed/typed up)

Thomas Cartelli

• difference-making engine of cutting
• not adaptation but displacement; projective, not retrospective
• "On Algorithmic Theatre"

"The Way We Think Now: Shakespearean Studies in the Digital Turn" panel

Ellen MacKay

• using Frances Yates, thinking about Camillo's theatre of memory as proto-digital knowledge structure
• Camillo -- sense of loss; attempting to recapture fluency of thought; Camillo prefigures virtual sense of the past -- digital virtualizations/visualizations can do the same
• "simulation of a sense of the past"
• frequent failure of digital media to achieve epiphanic fluency of thought -- resurgence of Camillo
• artificial memory performs the gaps in the original
• glitchiness -- "almost but not quite being there" of theatre history
• Rothko restoration through projection: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/05/a-light-touch-for-rothko-murals/

Christopher Warren

• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
• Jacob Moreno -- sociogram; history of social network visualizations
• "intellectual history of thinking the relation"
• Arendt -- study of human condition is also a study of social networks that produce that condition
• Hope and Witmore -- "buckets"; more fluid categories of relationality
• what relations do we want to count, categorize, compare?
• John Wilkins -- language through relations

Jentery Sayers

• wearable electric technology at end of 19c -- Trouvé
• http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115814/stick-pin-cadet-picard-auguste/
• possible this stick pin never did what it said it would - eyes roll, jaw snap
• lab prototyping this pin
• Trouve may have been first to remediate telegraph sounder into jewelry
• doing similar making with born-digital materials is harder; lacks opaqueness of materiality
• Trouve's skull pin "has no digital vernacular"
• http://jentery.github.io/saa