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THE YES MEN
CORRECTING IDENTITIES WITH THE YES MEN
November 20, 2008, 6:00 pm
The Yes Men are a merry troupe of imposters who have poked fun at some of the world's biggest corporate criminals. They are most well known for impersonating the WTO– the subject of a feature film and book– but they have had dozens of other escapades fighting corporate crime with words, glue, and rubberbands.
WORKSHOPS AND LECTURE
November 18, 2008, 6:00 pm
The Eyebeam Roadshow is what you get when you mix a rock and roll tour with the talented residents and fellows of the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, NYC. Six Eyebeam members will introduce Eyebeam and their individual work from 6 to 7pm and will give four workshops from 7 to 10pm. The presentations are open to the public, but the workshops are only available for DMA students and are limited to twenty participants. The workshop sign-up sheet is at the Help Desk on the fourth floor.
November 15, 2008
Noon til 10pm
On November 15th, 2008 Machine Project is seizing control of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
We will be orchestrating ten hours of performances, workshops, and events which experiment with LACMA’s encyclopedic collections and expansive grounds. Featuring over 60 projects dispersed across the seven-building, twenty-acre campus, visitors are encouraged to explore the museum in new and unexpected ways.
Projects sited throughout the museum include a robotic Netsuke head, a glow-in-the-dark unicorn, a man in a suit made of pepper cans, an audio tour of ambient gallery sounds, and a painting reproduced in flowers. A bank of elevators will be inhabited by trios of musicians including a gamelan orchestra, mariachi band, and fife and drum core. Visitors can try to solve the interactive murder mystery with clues scattered across the museum grounds. The BP Grand Court will become a temporary Mission Control Center with electronics workshops, a video feedback installation of the day’s events, and an evening screening with performances and readings. There will also be craft workshops, mobile musical aliens, gallery massages, a handout of invisible performances, replicas made from LACMA’s trash, a lost nose, and much, much, more.
TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY: Can This Forced Marriage Be Saved?
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
1:15PM -- Screening of Minority Report (2002), directed by Steven Spielberg
4:00PM -- Panel Discussion
5:30PM -- Reception
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
* Dr. John Underkoffler. Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Oblong Industries, Inc. Science advisor on Minority Report, Iron Man, Aeon Flux, Stranger Than Fiction. Formerly a researcher MIT’s Media Lab.
* Dr. Douglas Thomas. Associate Professor of Communications, Annenberg School for Communication. Specialty is cybercrimes, computer security and surveillance, virtual identities, hacking culture.
* Dr. B. Clifford Neuman. Director, USC Center for Computer Systems Security; assistant research professor of computer science, Viterbi School of Engineering.