Transcriptions/Literature.Culture.Media

Literature.Culture.Media Center Research Slam
Where poster session meets poetry slam!

Friday, May 22, 2009

1:00 – 5:00 pm
Department of English, South Hall Second Floor

1:00 – 1:10 Opening Remarks, SH 2635

1:15 – 2:00 Session I, SH 2635

Nick Alward – Special Content
Hypertext-based project exploring forced simulated torture and our perception of war through both a narrative structured around a hypothetical CIA black site in New Mexico and an essay discussing World of Warcraft.

Salman Bakht – _object.soundingspace.textfield
Sound installation designed for an academic conference setting exploring dichotomies found in language: speech/text, semantics/phonology, sense/nonsense, etc.

Jenna Frazier – Sitt-Marie Rose: The Deaf-Mute Perspective
Using web design and text-analysis tools to explore the significance of the deaf-mute sections in Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie-Rose.

Bola C. King – Pedagogical Affordances and Opportunities in Second Life
Discussing general teaching possibilities and a look at UCSB Lane and its possibilities and limitations.

Julia Panko – Literature on the Record: Mourning, Memory, and Information Storage in The Raw Shark Texts
Exploring how Hall’s print novel performs crucial digital humanities work by situating these themes within the intersections between narrative, storage technologies, print, and contemporary information culture.

2:10 – 2:55 Session II, SH 2509

Anne Cong-Huyen – CouchSurfing Toward Self: Identity in Literary and Virtual Space
Exploring contemporary identities that are continually constructed and evolving within digital spaces and communities.

Kim Knight – Describing the Viral
Tag clouds that are drawn from the descriptive labels applied to a sampling of content on YouTube.

Richard Lau – Sacco on Sacco
Analyzing the role of authorial self-insertion in Joe Sacco’s landmark works of New Journalism, graphic novels /Safe Area: Gorazde /and /Palestine/.

Amanda Phillips – The Uncanny Abyss: Reflections on Anxiety, Robots, and Intersubjective Relations
Reworking Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley, theorizing the anxiety induced by robots, realistic CGI, and artificial intelligence.

3:10 – 3:40 Discussion, SH 2635
Led by Anne Cong-Huyen, Julia Panko, and Amanda Phillips

3:40 – 3:50 Closing Remarks

3:50 – 5:00 Reception

Discussion:  Ivanhoe (literary interpretation game)
Thursday, February 19
SH 2509
10:30-11:30

Talk:  “I.nterpret”
Thursday, February 19
SH 2635
3:30-5:00

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.

LCM is pleased to co-sponsor the Eyebeam Roadshow on Wednesday, November 19
Eyebeam: Digital Research & Experimentation in Art and Technology

“Inspiring an Online Workforce Workshop”; 12-4:30 p.m. | Arts 2220
noon – 4pm
Steve Lambert and Jeff Crouse will talk about their experiences working with strangers on the Internet to accomplish specific tasks. Hands-on activities may include 1) starting a Google Code/Sourceforge project; 2) using the online labor market (Mechanical Turk); 3) making friends you never knew you had through online collaboration.

“Mobile Workshop”; 12-4:30 | Arts 1340
A distinguishing factor of mobile technologies is that you engage with them while you are on the move. Artist David Jimison will talk about new digital art forms that utilize mobile technologies, such as locative media, collaborative gaming, and wearable systems. The workshop will include hands-on creation of a locative mobile experience.
Requirements: BYO (Bring Your Own) cellphone, and laptop computer if you have one

Lecture; 5:00-6:30 p.m. | Broida 1610

The Eyebeam Road Show is what you get when you mix a rock ‘n’ roll tour with the talented fellows and residents of NYC’s Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.

Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution.

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 [...]