May 12 - 109 Atkinson College (Harry Crowe Room), York University
1pm - Welcome and Introductory Remarks
1:15 – Information Overload Chair: Craig Robertson "Stop Shooting" and Other Ideas on Managing Image Overload at Magnum Photos Nadya Bair Bunk and Ballyhoo Will Straw
2:30 - Coffee Break
2:45 - Information in Formation Chair: Mary Grace Lao "To Have and To Hold": Information, Paper, and Cabinets in the Middle-Class Home Craig Robertson Between Object and Information: The Machine Circa 1930 Mark Hayward and Ghislain Thibault
4:00 pm – Closing Remarks
May 13 - McLuhan Centre, 39A Queen’s Park Crescent East
9:30 – Economy and Information Chair: Justin Douglas Postwar Credit Reporting and the Origins of Ubiquitous Consumer Surveillance Josh Lauer Informational Imaginaries of the "Cashless Society" Lana Swartz
10:45 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Managing Images, Managing Affect Chair: Carolyn Kane Everyday Techniques of the Affect Lab: Photography in Early 20th Century Psychological Research Grant Bollmer Shame about that Microfilm Lily Cho
12:15 – Lunch
1:30 - Living Data Chair: Mark Hayward Pop Music Charts and the Metadata of Culture Liam Young Computable Soldiers: Media and Medicine in the First World War Jeremy Packer and Alexander Monea
2:45 – Coffee Break
3:00 - Sounding Ubiquity Chair: Mark Hayward Canned Culture, 1890-1930 Keir Keightley Cold War Sonar Networks and the Infosonic Imaginary John Shiga
4:15 - Closing Remarks