IMD Forum for 9/9/09: Anne Balsamo "Designing Culture"
Speaker: Anne Balsamo, Professor in IMD and Annenberg School of Communication
Time: Wednesday, September 9, 6-8 pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC)
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)
The seminar speaker this week is Anne Balsamo who is a professor in the Interactive Media Division and the Annenberg School of Communication. Professor Balsamo will provide a preview of her forthcoming transmedia book project called: Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. The transmedia elements she will discuss include an interactive documentary of the 4th UN Conference on Women (China, 1995), an interactive museum exhibition on experiments in the future of reading, and examples of interactive wall books. This work provides the context for new research efforts on the future of museums and libraries in a digital age.