Music Building
The Graduate Music Forum is proud to convene graduate students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines in exploring the role of music and sound in relating trans∗ness to experiences of moving across, between, and beyond multiple media forms, technologies, and narratives. We are particularly interested in the works, practices, experiences, and lives of transgender and transsexual individuals and communities. The conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. McKenzie Wark, author of Raving (2023), Reverse Cowgirl (2020) and A Hacker’s Manifesto (2006), who will join Dr. Kaleb Goldschmitt, Dr. Stephan Pennington, and Dean Julia Golden in a roundtable discussion on the conference’s theme. We will also host a video art screening and talkback with Dr. Nguyễn Tân Hoàng, author of A View From the Bottom (2014) and creator of video works such as Forever Bottom!, K.I.P., and look_im_azn.
We address two principal questions: How does sound and/or music move across, between, and beyond media? And how does sound and/or music move media? In asking these questions, we showcase dynamic interplay between media, movement, and music/sound, inspired by the expansive possibilities encompassed by the prefix, “trans∗.”
Please visit the conference website for more information.