[Image: Jane D. Marsching, NOAA Web Cam, 2005/2007 (6 min. video with sound, collaboration with Victor McSurely)] NMC Media-N, Summer 2010, v.05 n.04 — New Media Caucus Panels and Events at the CAA Conference, Chicago, 2010. Panels:

New Media/New Terrain: Pioneering a PhD in Creative Research, Chair: Jessica Walker: To Ph.D or not to Ph.D? by Victoria Vesna :: Legitimizing the Ph.D. as Creative Research by Jonah Brucker-Cohen :: University of Washington, DXARTS by James Coupe.

Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, Chairs: Jane Marsching & Andrea Polli: Airspace: The Practical Use of Radio in Antarctica by Andrea Polli

Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions
by Lisa E. Bloom & Elena Glasberg

Second Skin: UV Fashion or Data as Memory
by Judit Hersko

Myriad Couplings: Towards an Information Aesthetics of Climate Change
by Tom Corby

Voices, Lines, Cracks and Data-Sets: Formations of a New Idea of the Canadian North
by Leslie Sharpe

To Erode or Not To Erode: The Opposite Poles of Environmental Cultural Engagements
by Lanfranco Aceti

Cybersex: What’s Art Got To Do With It?
Chair: Vagner Whitehead

Fuzzy Logic: “I know it when I see it” and other hazards for artists
by Barbara DeGenevieve

Laborers of Love (LOL) – A Project-in-Progress by Jeff Crouse, Stephanie Rothenberg and Michael Schieben
by Stephanie Rothenberg

Limited Set: Generative Intersections of Theater and Artificial Live
Chair: Adam Trowbridge

Generative Art and Pragmatic Physical Computing
by Janell Baxter

Movement and the Machine - Intersections Between Live Dance Performance and Structured Sets of Rules
by Fabian Winkler, Carol Cunningham-Sigman, & Rebecca Bryant

Reviews and Commentary

Live Cinema Summit: A Review of Real-Time Audio-Visual Performance
by Alessandro Imperato

New Media and the Tenure Track Roundtable
by Vagner Whitehead