2005-2006
| Lecture Series on New Media, Technology, & Humanities
FALL
QUARTER 2005:
Knowledge
or Information? Blogs, Wikis & Listservs: A Panel
November
10, 2005 | 4-5:30PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building
The Internet has spawned new genres of publication, with
accompanying new vocabulary--blogs, wikis, and listservs--digital
forms of diaries, journals, and newsletters. These digital
platforms vary in both quality and content while spanning
modes of expression such as personal reflection, commentary,
collaborative editing and diatribe. The areas of specialty
are as diverse as any, ranging from global issues of media,
gender, politics, human rights, philosophy, and community,
to individual travel logs, movie reviews, and workplace
gossip. Like many other forms of new media, they are controversial:
lauded by some and censured by others, with critical examination
of issues a still significant gap.
To facilitate
dialogue on the impact and ramifications of these new forms
of publication, the UCI Libraries and HumaniTech are hosting
a panel on “Knowledge or Information? Blogs, Wikis,
and Listservs”. It will be held on Thursday, November
10, from 4:00-5:30 p.m., in Humanities Instructional Building
135, followed by a reception in HIB 137. Panel participants
include Josh Fouts, director of the USC Center on Public
Diplomacy; Chet Grycz, CEO of Octavo.com; Elizabeth Losh,
Coordinator for Humanities Core Course, UCI; Kevin Roderick,
former reporter for the L.A. Times and founder and publisher
of LAobserved.com; and moderator Lynn Mally, Professor of
History, UCI.
WINTER
QUARTER 2006:
Conference:
"New Media, Technology, & the Humanities"
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February
17-18, 2006 | 135 Humanities Instructional Building | Download
conference poster
With Lev Manovich, Visual Arts, UCSD;
Erkki Huhtamo, Design & Media Arts,
UCLA; Tara McPherson, Critical Studies,
USC School of Cinema-Television; Jennifer Urban,
Intellectual Property Clinic, USC Law School; Mark
Poster, History, UCI; Jeffrey Schnapp,
French & Italian, Stanford University; Eyal
Amiran, Comparative Literature, UCI; Noah
Wardrip-Fruin, Communications, UCSD; Mark
Hansen, English, U. of Chicago; Rita Raley,
English, UCSB; Andrew Herman, Communication,
Wilfred Laurier University; Rosemary Coombe,
Law & Cultural Studies, York University; Robert
Nideffer, Studio Art & Computer Science, UCI;
Henry Lowood, History of Science &
Technology, Stanford University Libraries; John
Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist for Xerox Corp.
and former Director, Xerox PARC. Co-sponsorsed by Arts Computation
Engineering, the Beall Center for Art and Technology, the
California Institute for Technology, the Department of Film
and Media Studies, the Humanities Center, the International
Center for Writing and Translation, the Office of Research
& Graduate Studies, the School of Humanities, and the
Univeristy of California Humanities Research Institute.
Lunchtime Colloquy: "The Web that We Weave...
in Humanities Teaching
February 23, 2006 | 12-1:30PM | 135 Humanities Instructional
Building
Featuring Michael Fuller, Department of
East Asian Languages and Literature, and Maria Pantelia,
Department of Classics & Director of the Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae.
Lecture/workshop: "Design Your Life: Media
and Technology at Home and Work
March 13, 2006 | 2-4:30PM | 135 Humanities Instructional
Building
Thinking people everywhere are taking the digital tools of
media and marketing into their own hands in order to live
(and live in) their own visions of what’s hip, cool,
beautiful, or just. Lecture and slide presentation by Ellen
and Julia Lupton will demonstrate some of the ways that people
are using design to present images and ideas of their own
invention to the various publics that make up their social
worlds. Ellen and Julia’s blog www.design-your-life.org
will provide a framework for exploring the varieties of design
in contemporary life.
Followed
by Design Your Life: Building an Independent Web Site
(Workshop) 3:15 - 5:00 PM in HH 217
This workshop presents the whys and wherefores behind building
web sites on non-university servers, from how to get your
own URL and renting server space to building a distinctive
graphic identity that pulls together the many loves and
labors that animate contemporary lives. Presentation will
include a quick tour of some “indee” web sites
designed by people in and around UCI.
Ellen
Lupton is Director of the MFA Program in Graphic
Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Her most recent books are D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself
(Princeton Architectural Press 2005) and Thinking With Type
(Princeton Architectural Press 2004).
Julia Lupton is Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at UCI and co-host with her twin
sister Ellen Lupton of www.design-your-life.org. She also
contributed to D.I.Y: Design It Yourself.
SPRING QUARTER 2006
Lecture:
"Bernard Stiegler: Technology, Power, and Hypomnemata
March
4, 2006 | 4:00 PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building
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Bernard
Stiegler is one of today’s foremost philosophers
writing on technology and culture. He is co-author of Technics
and Time and Echographies of Television with Jacques
Derrida. He has led several research programs in the field
of digital technology applied to text, image, and sound.
As Director of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination
Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), he encouraged a close link between
scientific research and musical creation; he also created
a research team specialized in performing arts technologies,
and developed new instruments for music education. He has
conceived and organized several exhibits including Mémoires
du Futur at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and, currently
is the Director of the département du developpement
culturel there.
Introduction by Andrzej Warminksi, Professor
of English, UCI; Response by Tom Cohen,
Professor of English, University at Albany. Co-sponsored
by the Critical Theory Emphasis, the Critical Theory Institute,
the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department
of French & Italian, the Department of English, and
the Humanities Center.
