“Interactive Narrative: What It Can Do & What It Can’t”
Facilitated by Porter Abbott (UCSB) with special guest Marie-Laure Ryan (University of Colorado)
Thursday, February 26 / 3:30 PM
English Department Seminar Room, South Hall 2635
A discussion keyed to two texts by Dr. Ryan, “Peeling the Onion: Layers of Interactivity in Digital Narrative Texts” and “Interactive Narrative, Plot Types, and Interpersonal relations” (latter available shortly on ERES).
TALK: “What Has the Computer Done for the Word?”
Marie-Laure Ryan (English, University of Colorado)
Friday, February 27 / 4:00
English Department Seminar Room, SH 2635
Sponsored by the Department of English, Literature.Culture.Media, the Program in Literature and the Mind, and the Department of Film and Media Studies.
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.
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 [...]