lucievagnerova
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Forthcoming Paper on Women’s Factory Labor and Electronic Music
I spent the past two years thinking through issues of women’s labor in the electronics assembly industry in the context of the history of electronic music and audio. My work started as an exam bibliography for the certificate offered by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia, which was advised by Professor…
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Sound Limits symposium at Yale
I recently presented more new work on labor in electronics assembly, transnational economies, and electronic sound and audio at Yale’s Sound Limits: Music and its Borders symposium. My presentation focused on the economic/cultural model of making abandoned factories into exhibition spaces. Head over to Research > Black Box White Box to learn more about the conference and read my paper…
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I’ll be at the Women in Sound / Women on Sound symposium in Lancaster, England next week
Sound artist Linda O’Keefe is organizing a Women in Sound / Women on Sound symposium at the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art at Lancaster University on November 13, 2015. I will be presenting a paper titled “Women in Electronic Sound Production: Expanding Categories,” where I propose some access points for sound studies and feminist musicology to address the…
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I (finally!) completed the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Certificate
I’m happy to announce that after years of inching towards the IRWGS Certificate, I finally completed the certificate exam on September 29. The certification confirms that the candidate is fully qualified to teach interdisciplinary courses in feminist theory and women’s studies. A successful candidate first completes two graduate seminars: a required IRWGS seminar and a freely selected topical…
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Save the date! Women, Music, Power: A Celebration of Suzanne G. Cusick’s Work (Dec 10-12, 2015)
Since the spring, I’ve been working with Ellie Hisama on organizing a two-day event celebrating the work of Suzanne G. Cusick through a two-day symposium, a concert of new music by women, and the publication of a Festschrift volume in Professor Cusick’s honor that will appear as Vol 19 (2015) of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and…
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Sexing Sound Art: my new course for Fall 2015 at Columbia
I will be teaching Sexing Sound Art in the Fall 2015 semester as a GSAS Teaching Scholar at Columbia. The course will be co-sponsored by the Institute for the Research of Women and Gender and the Department of Music. Here is a short course description: This course explores sound-based creative practices as sites where gender, race, and sexuality are always, and…
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Current Musicology is turning 50 and there’s a conference for that #CMTurns50
Current Musicology, a leading journal of scholarly research on music, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with an open-themed conference on March 28-29, 2015 at Columbia University. Prof. Georgina Born (@georgieborn) will deliver the keynote. Details here.
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I am also preparing a paper on Laetitia Sonami and female labor for Harvard’s “Work & Play: Economies of Music” conference, February 20-21, 2015
The whole title is “Female Labor and Video Games in the Work of Electronic Composer Laetitia Sonami.” I will talk about building one’s own musical instruments, Mills College in the 1970s, video game controllers, sweating during performance, women wire-bonding microchips in East Asia, housework, and Sonami’s own electronic controller called the Lady’s Glove. Here is more info…
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I will be presenting on Laurie Anderson’s pretend intercoms at Stony Brook’s “Technologies of Sound” conference, Feb 13-14, 2015
This year, the Stony Brook Graduate Music Symposium convenes on the theme “Technologies of Sound: Systems, Networks, Modernities,” with a keynote address by Arved Ashby (Ohio State University). At the conference, as per Stony Brook’s call for papers, “technology is conceived as a broad discourse shaping music history and theory, not only in reference to the tools of music…
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I’m teaching Critical Approaches to Music Technologies this summer at Columbia
I will be teaching a seminar on music technologies as a part of Columbia University’s Summer Sessions. The course surveys 20th and 21st century music technologies in avant-garde/experimental as well as mainstream/popular genres. Through assigned readings from various fields, students will explore the way music technologies shape musical discourse at large. We will trace the various…