From an email posted by Esther Grassian, dated Feb 25, 2009
We are happy to announce the 6th of 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital
Humanities taking place at UCLA in real life (RL), and streamed via
live video feed into the Digital Library Federation's (DLF) http://www.diglib.org/
SL island, Entropia. The RL participants will also see the SL
audience, projected on a screen in the RL room at UCLA.
These Seminars, organized and co-taught by Jeffrey Schnapp (Visiting
Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA, and Professor of Comparative
Literature, Stanford University; Founder of the Stanford Humanities
Laboratory) and Todd Presner ((Associate Professor of Germanic
Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA), take place at intervals
during the 2008/2009 academic year. To find out more about this series
of Seminars: www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu
Please note that the time for each Seminar is U.S. Pacific Time.
TOPIC: " Border Crossings: Mobility, Immobility, and Trans-media
Storytelling”
DATE & TIME: Monday, March 9, 2009, 2 pm - 5 pm SLT/PST
SPEAKERS:
• Scott Ruston, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and
Media Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, received his
PhD in critical studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the
University of Southern California in 2008. Through a combination of
theory and practice, his research has explored how the cinematic
legacy of the telephone and the unique characteristics of mobile media
combine to create immersive and interactive narrative entertainment.
Topic: “Mobile Media: Intersecting Space/Place, Narrative/Database,
Physical/Virtual”
• Amy Sara Carroll, assistant professor of Latina/o Studies (jointly
appointed in English and American Culture, affiliate of the Center for
World Performance Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies) at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received a Ph.D. in Literature
from Duke University (2004), an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from
Cornell University, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of
Chicago. Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latin/o
American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video,
and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, cultural
studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative
writing. Her critical essays and poetry have appeared in various
journals and anthologies.
• Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance
Theater (EDT), who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in solidarity
with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. His recent
Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha
Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS
cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the
winner of "Transnational Communities Award"). He is an assistant
professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department and Principal/
Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (bang.calit2.net).Ricardo is also co-
founder of *particle group* (pitmm.net) with artists Diane Ludin, Nina
Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll - the project is focused on the themes of
nanotechnology and nanotoxicology.
DESCRIPTONS OF PRESENTATIONS + LINKS TO READINGS: http://tinyurl.com/c2k7f4
RL LOCATION: Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Science Building—enter on
the ground floor (5th
level) and follow the signs to the portal
SL LOCATION: Digital Library Federation's SL island, Entropia
Anyone interested is welcome to attend at UCLA. The SL audience is
limited to 50.
IMPORTANT: SL attendees only: Please RSVP to Esther Grassian
<estherg@library.ucla.edu> or IM her SL avatar, Alexandria Knight, to
reserve a space on Entropia, and for instructions on viewing the live
feed and adjusting the audio in SL.
You can teleport directly to Entropia by using the following Second
Life url (SLurl), but you must have an SL account in order to do so:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Entropia/110/117/21/
Basic SL accounts are free: http://secondlife.com/
Please let us know if you have any questions or would like any
additional information.
Best,
Esther Grassian (UCLA) & Deni Wicklund (Stanford)
Co-Managers, DLF's Entropia
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