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March 5, 2009
BCNM: New Media Research Roundtable 3/5/09
Berkeley Center for New Media Commons
(340 Moffitt Library, on the terrace next to the Free Speech Cafe.)
This informal bi-weekly series encourages faculty and BCNM graduate
students to discuss future and current research in New Media with an
emphasis on identifying new collaborative research opportunities.
Organized by Gail De Kosnik, Ken Goldberg, and Susan Miller.
Prof. Weil addresses the role of new media designers as architects and
planners of a new type of civic and narrative space. As the physical and
virtual worlds intersect, it is our responsibility as new media
practitioners to recognize our roles as world designers, acknowledging
that the virtual is no longer imaginary. The virtual environment (2D and
3D gamespace as well as virtual worlds) serve as an immersive data
space, offering unprecedented prospects for visualization, even
‘perceptualization,’ of complex processes and systems. This presentation
will cover two of the speaker’s recent projects, "The Redistricting
Game" and "Gone Gitmo," as platforms to pose questions and to suggest
new directions for projects and research.
Posted by pweil at March 5, 2009 3:12 PM