Nowcasting continues Saturday 10/17 at UCLA
The Nowcasting conference on Design Theory and the Digital Humanities, organized by Peter Lunenfeld of the Design|Media Arts program at UCLA continues tomorrow with presentations by Julia Lupton, Benjamin Bratton, Todd Presner and Lunenfeld himself, followed by a roundtable discussion concluding with a response by Lorraine Wild of Cal Arts. Today's conference was an eclectic array of talks by designers and theorists in and around the digital humanities and even included some real-live academic controversy around the role of technology, design, culture and affect as scholarship takes a computational turn. Complete schedule here and below.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 17, 2009 / 8:30-9:00 COFFEE
9:00-12:00 MESSAGE + MEANING:
"DESIGNS FOR THE HUMANITIES: OBJECT, METHOD, INTERFACE."
JULIA REINHARD LUPTON (UCI)
English + Comparative Literature / UCI Design Alliance
"AMBIENT INTERFACE."
BENJAMIN H. BRATTON (UCSD)
Visual Arts Department / Director, Design Policy Program CALIT2
"GOOGLE EARTH?"
TODD PRESNER (UCLA)
Germanic Languages + Jewish Studies/ Director, Hypercities: Berlin Los Angeles
"UNIMODERN UNIMEDIA."
PETER LUNENFELD (UCLA) DESIGN MEDIA ARTS
Director, MIT Press Mediawork Project
12:00-1:30 LUNCH / DEMOS
1:30-4:00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
RESPONDENT: LORRAINE WILD (CALARTS)
Graphic Design / Principal, Green Dragon Office