Diversicon schedule

[lydamorehouse]

Saturday, August 4, 2007 CE:

11:00-11:50 AM                            Krushenko?s (Concierge)
Panel: Good Blog/Bad Blog -- Modern Technology and Artists
What modern technology is available for artists (for self promotion, research, etc.)? What purpose can a blog serve? What are the ways things can go wrong? Discussion boards -- good, bad, or dependent on how they're used? S.N. Arly, mod.; Melissa S. Kaercher, Greg L. Johnson, Rachel Kronick, Catherine Lundoff, Lyda Morehouse

1:00-1:50 PM                                   Mainstage (Beacon/Duchess)
Panel: The Politics of Battlestar Galactica
We'll talk about the politics that may or may not underpin the series, as well as the opinions expressed by various political commentators who've claimed the show for their own. Greg L. Johnson, mod.; Janice
Bogstad, Philip Kaveny, Scott Lohman, Lyda Morehouse

3:00-3:50 PM                                    Mainstage (Beacon/Duchess)
Panel: Why Doesn't Superman Look Like Me?
Comics have long been a stronghold of muscular Aryan men and buxom babes in skimpy costumes. There are more racially & culturally diverse characters now than ever before, but comics still fall short of being representational of real world diversity. Why are comics still associated with these archetypes that date back to the 1930's? Melissa S. Kaercher, Christopher Jones, co-mods.; Cynthia Booth, Lyda Morehouse

Comments

[swords-and-pens.livejournal.com]

Crap, Diversicon is THIS weekend? It always sneaks up on me.

Jamie is out of town, so have fun for me.

[winterophelia.livejournal.com]

Politics of Battlestar panel? INSANELY AWESOME.

[rambleman.livejournal.com]

i really really really wanted to go to Diversicon this year for the first time. there are so many of you awesome Twin Cities types that would be in attendance. sadly, it's not gonna happen. :(

i'll be hoping to catch some reports of panels, as a number of them looked pretty good.

[jiawen]

For a bit there, I thought we weren't on any panels together. Then I re-read the Good Blog/Bad Blog description and noticed my name. Eep!

What is that panel about? Are we talking about visual art or all art? Are we including Photoshop and blogs? That is going to be all over the map if it means what it seems to mean.

[lydamorehouse]

Well, I don't know jack about using blogs for visual art, so I hope to steer the conversation toward blogs and writing. I have a love/hate relationship with blogging, partly because I'm responsible for content on four blogs (two of them group blogs, but still.)

S.N. Arly, who appears to be the moderator, usually comes really well prepared with pointed questions, etc. I suspect she'll keep things on track.