Transcriptions/Literature.Culture.Media

“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.

“When Geeks Go Camping: Cyberspace and the Outdoor Life”

English Department / Literature.Culture.Media Center Talk
Tuesday, Feb. 24th, 3:30-5
SH 2635

This talk examines the evolution of nature metaphors in computing and cyberspace via some examples of the influence of Californian outdoor life on computer culture in Silicon Valley and beyond.  It is drawn from research for a book-length study, The Wild Surmise: Nature and Cyberspace, which discusses the many ways in which we use our experiences of nature to situate and comprehend our experiences of cyberspace.

Sue Thomas is a Research Professor based at De Montfort University, UK, and works in both the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities.  She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English, UCSB, funded by the British Academy to research the California section of The Wild Surmise project.  More information about Prof. Thomas is available at http://www.suethomas.net

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

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 [...]