[acc-cca-l] Symposium JenniCam at 30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures

[Dunja Nešovic]

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April 14th, 2026, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley, then a college student, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley’s webcam, known as JenniCam, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years, becoming the most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not being recognized as a pioneer during her time, Jennifer Ringley made Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming.
We're meeting exactly thirty years later to celebrate JenniCam’s anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices.
Morning
10:15am-12pm – 4th Space, Concordia (LB-103)
JenniCam in Context: Keynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online), plus an in-situ conversation.
Afternoon
1:00pm-5pm –Speculative Life Cluster (EV-10.625), Milieux, Concordia
A pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures.
Presentations and in-situ conversations include: Tommaso Campagna<https://tommasocampagna.net/> on live streaming as a form of publishing(TheVoid.TV); Geert Lovink<https://networkcultures.org/geert/biography/> on the lives of the online self (online); Seska Lee<https://seskalee.com/> on camming and the construction of liveness; Lotte de Jong<https://lottelouise.nl/> on webcam and art (online);  Uandha Fernandes Barbosa + Aalok Sud + Tara Halkiw presenting the live coding performance if (afk == false) stream()<https://www.jennicam-at-30.com/>; Mark Sussman<https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/mark-sussman.html> introducing pandemic object theatre, and Jas Nasty <https://www.twitch.tv/jasnasty1> djing live (online).
Snacks and beverages will be provided at both locations.
Morning and afternoon (EST) events will be transmitted at Jennicam-at-30.com<http://jennicam-at-30.com/>.
This event would not be possible without the generous and enthusiastic support of:
the Digital intimacy, Gender & Sexuality Lab <https://www.digslab.net/> (DIGS)<https://www.digslab.net/>, <https://milieux.concordia.ca/> Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology<https://milieux.concordia.ca/>, <https://www.speculativelife.com/> Speculative Life-Machine Agencies<https://www.speculativelife.com/>, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/cissc.html> (CISSC)<https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/cissc.html>, <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/coms.html> COMS Concordia<https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/coms.html>,Institute of Network Cultures<https://networkcultures.org/>, PLSM

For more information about the event, the JenniCam, and related web based art, visit Jennicam-at-30.com<http://jennicam-at-30.com/>

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Dunja Nešović (She/Her)
PhD Candidate in Communication Studies, Concordia University
Lab Coordinator and Research Assistant, DIGS Lab<https://www.digslab.net/>


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