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!
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.
LCM is pleased to co-sponsor a lecture by John Durham Peters, Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Media History and Social Theory, University of Iowa
Peters works in media and cultural history, communication and social theory, and understanding communication in its broad historical, legal, philosophical, religious, and technological context. He is the author of Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (U Chicago Press, 2005) and Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (U Chicago Press, 1999)
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.
Wednesday, November 5, 12:00-2:00 (light lunch provided; please RSVP so I can order enough food)
SH 2635
Lecture and presentation of work by Jeremy Hight on the topic of locative narrative. He will be speaking about his project, 34 North 118 West, and he will also show some of his other work. Those attending may want to tour the project website in advance.
Friday, October 24, 2:00-4:00, South Hall 2635
Guest: Elizabeth Losh, UC Irvine
Liz will give a short opening presentation outlining her career trajectory from PhD in English to Writing Director of the Humanities Core at UC Irvine. We will then have an open discussion oriented around the following topics:
challenges of working and seeking positions outside one’s PhD granting department
what do humanities departments mean by “media”?
strategies for showcasing technical work in job applications (e.g. RA appts, wiki projects, blogs)
nomenclature and the shape of the field: new media, the digital humanities, electronic literacies, et al
the place of new media in rhet/comp departments (job opportunities, research questions)
what is the place of practical or applied research in the humanities?
The LCM is pleased to present a talk and reading by Stephanie Strickland.
Thursday, October 2, 3:30pm
South Hall 2635
Stephanie Strickland lives in New York. Her fifth book of print poems, Zone : Zero, includes two interactive poems on CD. One, slippingglimpse, was introduced at e-Poetry Paris, 2007; and the other, Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot, was chosed by Heather McHugh for the Boston Review Prize. Two of her books, True North and V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, have won Di Castagnola Prizes from the Poetry Society of America, chosen by Barbara Guest and Brenda Hillman respectively. The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil was awarded the Brittingham Prize.
A director of the Electronic Literature Organization, she co-edited the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection with N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg; co-edited a recent issue of the Iowa Review Web on Flash artists; and published “Writing the Virtual: Eleven Dimensions of E-Poetry” in Leonardo Electronic Almanac. She has taught hypermedia literature as part of experimental poetry at many colleges and universities, this semester at the University of Utah.
The new school year is nearly upon us, and there’s already a lot to look forward to in the LCM. This fall we will be hosting two new media artists, along with the director of the Humanities Core Course at UC Irvine. Here are the events currently scheduled for the quarter:
Thursday, October 2, 3:30, South Hall 2635
Talk and reading: Stephanie Strickland
Friday, October 24, 2:00-4:00, South Hall 2635
Symposium: “Careers in New Media and the Digital Humanities”
Guest: Elizabeth Losh, UC Irvine
Wednesday, November 5, 12:00-2:00, South Hall 2635
Lecture and presentation of work by Jeremy Hight (topic: locative narrative; see Hight’s essay on Narrative Archaeology and his threedifferentblogs)
Wednesday, November 19 Eyebeam roadshow, co-sponsored by the Art Department, IHC, LCM, and other UCSB departments
Workshops at noon; lecture at 5:00
More details on these and other events will be posted in this space as they come up. The LCI’s Film.Literature.Software series will also continue with events to be announced.
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 [...]
