Steve Anderson

Please join us -- in person or online -- for the final event of the Adobe-sponsored Design | Technology | Theory series on Monday May 19th at 1:00PM in the ZML. As a wrap-up to the series, we will be addressing the topic "Design, Theory, Practice and the Future of Scholarship."

What will the next generation of design scholarship look like? In many circles, the archaic stillness of traditional academic texts has given way to new forms of expression that are computational, visual, sonic, mobile or interactive. Join us for a dynamic roundtable pecha kucha-style showdown. It features five designer-scholars: Julian Bleecker, Kristy Kang, Veronica Paredes, Jen Stein, and Steve Anderson, each of whom is operating at the intersection of theory and practice in their production of artistic and scholarly works.

To register in advance for this event please go to the following link:
http://adobekwbu.acrobat.com/pechakucha/event/registration.html

After registering, please go to the following link at the time of the event and enter your username and password:
http://adobekwbu.acrobat.com/pechakucha/event/login.html

Posted by at 2:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Getty Museum is currently hosting “California Video,” a survey of 40 years of video art made in California. To complement this show, the IML’s Anne Bray has curated a stellar program of cutting edge videos from 1980 forward called “Hotbed: Video Cultivation Beside the Getty Gardens"; it will feature 20 videos projected outside on the walls of the Getty in a spectacular and unprecedented display this Friday, May 9 (7:00 - 9:00 p.m.). The show continues on Saturday, but this conflicts with the IMD thesis show opening, so plan accordingly!

The videos center on the nature/culture divide, asking what constitutes the natural and the cultural - is gender natural or cultural? What about race? Videos include East/West, by Su-Chen Hung, which is about the challenges of uniting different cultural heritages in a single self, illustrated deftly with the image of a divided mouth (seen above). Howie Cherman’s Flying I (below) takes us into the impossible through the digital, exploring the ineffable permutations of time, perpetual motion and the body within the image. Flying like this, vibrating in an impossible moment of suspension, can only happen through an image constructed via digital manipulation; and yet that manipulation aligns so closely with real experiences of time and the body in the urgent pace of contemporary culture.

This expansive show offers a rare chance to see powerful, volatile, courageous work produced at a moment when the culture wars demanded a response, not just in terms of giving voice to disparate communities and points of views, but in formal terms as a radical message demanded radical form. The event is free; parking is $8.

Posted by at 8:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The IML is pleased to announce a workshop May 27-30 for faculty and graduate students to create multimedia projects with Sophie, an easy-to-use free software application developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book and presented by USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Sophie allows users to design interactive texts that incorporate images, video and sound, and it deploys creative formats for analysis, annotation and citation.

Participants will engage in a hands-on workshop May 27 – 30, 2008, with the goal of creating a scholarly project; they will then be free to use the IML labs with support staff during the summer to continue work on the project; and they will be invited to present their completed projects at a showcase event in August. Participants will receive an honorarium of $1,000 for their participation in the workshop.

Sophie is described by the Institute for the Future of the Book as “software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment.” Sophie’s goal is to encourage multimedia authoring and, in the process, “to redefine the notion of a book or ‘academic paper’ to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation in dynamic margins.”

Successful proposals will be based on an existing paper or body of research; they will articulate how media elements will enhance or transform the paper; and they will indicate a desire to dedicate a full week to the project during the workshop.

Those interested are invited to submit a proposal that includes the following:
1. Name and affiliation
2. Paper/project title and brief description
3. Sophie project description: what do you imagine doing with Sophie?
4. Why is this an interesting project to translate into an interactive, media-rich, extensible and/or networked format?
5. What assets (images, video, sound) do you have ready to use?

Please submit proposals and questions by email to Holly Willis, Director of Academic Programs, Institute for Multimedia Literacy < hwillis AT cinema.usc.edu >

Deadline for proposals is 5:00 p.m., Monday, May 12, 2008. Participants will be notified on Friday, May 16, 2008.

Posted by at 3:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)