Transcriptions/Literature.Culture.Media

The LCM’s Film.Literature.Software presentation this quarter will be the anime film Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. This film explores the question of humanity and its relation to machines, especially cyborgs and androids. An urban adventure that probes philosophical, moral, and aesthetic issues, this is one of a small number of animated films to become a finalist for the famed Palme D’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Join us on Thursday, February 26, at 6pm in SH 2635 for movie and discussion – all are welcome!

DATE: Friday, January 30, 2009
TIME: 10am-Noon
ROOM: Literature.Culture.Media Center (2509 South Hall, formerly the Transcriptions Studio)

Our campus has seen technologies such as course mangement systems, Facebook, blogs, and wikis utilized in both graduate and undergraduate courses; there has been recent interest in how these work and what they’re good for. Join us for a panel and roundtable discussion on incorporating these and other technologies into a humanities or cultural-studies classroom. Our panel includes faculty and graduate students from the English department who will share their success stories as well as suggestions and advice on what different applications can do, how you can get your students engaged, and how easy some of this stuff really is.

Happy new year! I’m back for one more quarter as the LCM’s RA. First off, the open drop-in hours will be:

Tuesdays 11am-4pm
Wednesdays 11am-3pm
Thursdays 11am-2pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
And, of course, by appointment.

Instructors and TAs who have technology-related needs or would like to discuss ideas on using technology in their curricula should feel free to contact me (bck@umail.ucsb.edu). Our resources include two iMacs and 6 Windows-based machines;  I will post a complete list of available hardware and software later this week. Here’s to a great spring quarter!

– Bola C. King

Monday, December 1, 12:00-2:00p.m., South Hall 2509

Guest speaker: Aaron McLeran, MAT

The LCM’s Film.Literature.Software series is pleased to present a software demo of the recently-released Spore. This newest game from the makers of SimCity and The Sims is perhaps the most sweeping simulation ever, starting from a cellular organism and ending with a spacefaring civilization.

MAT graduate student Aaron McLeran, who worked on the game’s generative music during software development, will be on hand to discuss his work. The Creature Creator program will also be available to allow for a hands-on experience with this unique content-authoring software.

Welcome to the Fall 2008 quarter. I’m Bola C. King, a second-year grad student in English, and I’m the fellow for the Literature.Culture.Media Center this quarter. I’ll be posting information to this blog, assisting LCI faculty with their needs, and helping to administer the LCM lab space and associated events. To that end, I’ll be holding drop-in hours when anyone can come in to get assistance or use the lab’s resources. Those hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 3p-5p; Thursdays from noon to 5p; and Fridays from noon to 2p. I can also meet with you by appointment.

Keep your eyes on this space for news and information, and here’s to a great quarter!

The Literature.Culture.Media (LCM) Center continues the work in digital humanities and new media begun in 1998 by the Transcriptions project. Our overall goal is “to build a working paradigm of a humanities department of the future that takes the information revolution to its heart as something to be seriously learned from, wrestled with, and otherwise [...]