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I heard about this summer workshop that might interest some of us. It’s at UC Irvine and includes travel, lodging, and food costs for the week.
Values in Design Workshop – August 19-26, 2012
Take part in an intensive one-week workshop on values in the design of information systems and technology. Doctoral students at any stage from a variety of disciplines are invited to attend, including – but not restricted to – informatics, computer science, science studies, design, visual arts, and social entrepreneurship. Travel, food, and lodging will be covered, though accepted participants are encouraged to seek support from their home institutions.
The workshop will be restricted to twenty (20) students. Mornings will be devoted to discussing a judicious mix of readings and exercises from the fields above, led by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Judith Gregory, and Cory Knobel. In the afternoons, students will work in interdisciplinary groups to produce a project plan incorporating strong social values into information systems and technology, with guest lectures from thought leaders such as Paul Dourish, Helen Nissenbaum, and Carl DiSalvo throughout the week. The workshop will close with project presentations to a panel of academics and entrepreneurs. We will offer support and rewards for projects that continue on to working prototypes and project launch.
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Alex sent me this invite and I’m not sure if anyone else got it; so I wanted to share it with anyone who might be interested in seeing one of her projects, Perpitube, in action.
video still from "He's Out in Public" Natalie Bookchin, 2012
LACE presents Now he’s out in public and everyone can see, a new 18 channel video installation by artist Natalie Bookchin on view 8 March – 15 April, 2012.
Now he’s out in public and everyone can see weaves together found fragments from online video diaries in which vloggers recount a series of media scandals involving African American men. The multiple stories, originally circulated and enflamed by networks of corporate media gone viral, intersect around themes of racial and class identity and explore popular attitudes, anxieties, and conflicts about race. Bookchin’s work creates a critical context for otherwise isolated and scatter-shot online voices, drawing links, making connections, and locating tropes between individual rants and responses. Where the typical viewer of online video is a single person in front of her screen, the installation produces an active social space where multiple viewers navigate through a media environment, piecing together a fragmented and layered narrative told across space and time.
A major new work by Bookchin, Now he’s out in public and everyone can see was developed over the past two and a half years and is part of a larger body of work in which Bookchin repurposes videos made and circulated online, giving new social shape and form to individual expression. This newest project is spatially and conceptually complex, weaving together many more videos, sounds, voices, narratives, and perspectives into three-dimensional space. This further evolution of form reflects and explores the mix of struggles, conflicts, and harmony in some of the critical stories we as a society are telling today about who we are, and what we aspire to be, and represents a significant step in Bookchin’s practice.
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Our recent guest, artist Natalie Bookchin, will present a new work called “He’s Out in Public” at LACE in Hollywood. Bookchin uses the massive archive of self-expressive texts on youtube, vimeo, and other social video networking sites to render dynamic orchestrations of sociability and networked expression, exploring the problematics and possibilities of baroque public intimacy. Here are the details about the show and a link to the website with more information about the project:
Opening reception: Thursday, March 8 8-10pm . Show runs March 8 to April 15 .
LACE is located at 6522 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 . phone 323.957.1777
More details about “He’s Out in Public”
The Comparative Literature department Winter Colloquium is initiating interdisciplinary discussions around narrative discourse and research from a variety of approaches. Next week we are hosting a lecture that might be of interest to CDHers. Dr. Takeshita from the Women’s Studies department is speaking about “Storytelling in Science and Technology Studies.” We would be happy to welcome any visitors for whom this is helpful for ongoing research.
Details are as follows:
Weds, Feb 1 . 12-1:30 pm . HMNSS 2412 (Comp Lit Conference Room). Please see the flier below.
Dr. Rita Raley, Associate Professor in the English Department of UCSB, and author of Tactical Media (Minnesota, 2009), has confirmed for an April 19 2012 talk.
We’ll post the room and time information as the event approaches.
We had to cancel the November 1 presentation by Alex Juhasz and Natalie Bookchin, but we’ve been able to re-schedule them for January 31 at 4 PM.
The event will be in HMNSS 1500 from 4:00-5:30pm, and refreshments will be served.
We’ll update site information as the event approaches.
This Sunday morning panel has two of our members and four relevant presentations ….
http://www.pamla.org/2011/sessions/comparative-media
Thanks to Eddie Eason for sharing this excellent story from The New York Times about the Occupy Wall Street protests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/sunday-review/wall-street-protest-shows-power-of-place.html?_r=3&emc=eta1
Monica Viti is the Time Image in Antonioni's "Desserto Rosso"
1) Affect
This is our first topical reading group to discuss the concept of “affect” relative to its use in a Deleuzian context. This page will provide an archive with article links, bibliographical information, and proceedings on this project page.
