Steve Anderson

UCLA's mobile media series continues tomorrow and through the weekend with some very cool speakers, symposia and workshops. On Thursday 11/12 Area/Code's Kevin Slavin will be speaking at 6:00PM, followed by a day-long symposium on Friday 11/13 organized by Casey Reas featuring luminaries including Slavin, Julian Bleecker, Mark Hansen, Ian Bogost, Robin Hunicke, John Underkoffler, Erkki Huhtamo, Machiko Kusahara and many more! Saturday 11/14 is devoted to a series of low-cost workshops on using Python, Arduino, and the iPhone SDK.

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UCLA Design|Media Arts' Mobile Media Lecture Series continues tomorrow at 6:00PM with expanded storyteller and ARG designer Jordan Weisman. From the UCLA website: "Jordan has been the creative force behind a number of entertainment companies, including his newest venture, Smith & Tinker (connected toys), FASA Corporation (roleplaying games), Virtual World Entertainment (networked virtual reality entertainment) acquired by the Disney Family, FASA Interactive (PC games, including the MechWarrior franchise) acquired by Microsoft, WizKids (collectible games) acquired by Topps Inc., and 42 Entertainment (alternate reality gaming). During his career, Jordan has created some of the largest and longest-lasting franchises in the gaming industry, including BattleTech/MechWarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies."

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Computational designer Jonathan Harris will present a talk titled "Escaping Aesthetic Alcatraz: Re-imagining the Architecture of our Online Homes" as part of UCLA's Mobile Media Lecture Series this Tuesday October 27 at 6:00 pm in the Broad Art Center.

"Jonathan Harris makes projects that re-imagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time capsule (with Yahoo!) to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean (with a warm hat). He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which continuously measures the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog analysis, and has made other projects about online dating, modern mythology, anonymity, news, and language."

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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.

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Real Time Live presents acclaimed media artist Mia Makela (aka Solu), one of several international visual innovators dedicated to live cinema, an emerging artform in which moving images and sounds are mixed live, and cinema becomes a performative event unfolding in real time. Makela’s work has been described as “a dark delirium of images, a disintegrated vision on a complex world - a digital version of William Blake's poetry,” and her style ranges from minimal abstractions to multilayered compositions following a dreamlike narrative journey. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see Makela's live performance and learn to create your own live cinema experience! RSVP requested for workshop participants.

Workshops: October 9 and Saturday, October 10, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location: IML Blue Lab, 746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles

Performance: October 10, 2009, 8:30 p.m.

Location: SCA 112, George Lucas Building, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles

Presented by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy



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Do It Yourself, Do It Together: Make Feminist Media brings together Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski, the co-founders and co-editors of the LA-based magazine make/shift, who will talk about the state of feminist publishing. Afterward, participants will join representatives of the San Diego-based collective Grrrl Zines A Go-Go for a picnic lunch and hands-on zine-making workshop outdoors on the patio at the IML. Presented by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in collaboration with Gender Studies and Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative.

Friday, September 25
Presentation: 11:00 – noon, Kerckhoff Hall
Picnic: 12:30 – 1:00 p.m., IML Patio
Workshop: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., IML Patio

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The Visible Evidence documentary conference continues through the weekend with several notable events in addition to an impressive, three-track array of panels and presentations devoted to all things documentary. Perhaps of greatest potential interest to the IMD community is the presentation by filmmaker James Benning on Saturday night from 8:00 to 10:00PM in SCA 108. Billed as a "Multimedia Presentation" by Benning, who is best known for his uniquely rigorous body of landscape-focused structural films, the artist will be talking about his most recent non-film project "Milwaukee to Lincoln, MT," which involved reconstructing the cabin built by Henry David Thoreau on Walden Pond and the cabin occupied by Theodore Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) in the woods of Montana.

Known for his eclectic interests and fascination with notorious figures from American history (one of Benning's early films mined the personal diaries of Arthur Bremer, Nixon's would-be assassin who went on to shoot Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972), Benning is one of the few artists who could pull off such a perverse, yet striking, juxtaposition without trivializing the subject through postmodern irony-mongering. Whatever happens when Benning goes on stage in SCA 108 tomorrow night, I promise you will not want to miss it.

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The Future of (Mediated) Scholarship workshop series for graduate students continues this Friday, March 27 at 10:00 a.m. with Session 3: Presentation Zen, a multi-session workshop on various strategies and tools for creating and delivering media-rich presentations. The workshop takes place at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at 746 W. Adams Blvd. Lunch will be provided.

Questions? Please email Holly Willis. RSVPs appreciated.

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The Future of (Mediated) Scholarship workshop series for graduate students continues Friday, February 27 at 2:00 p.m. with Session 2: You, Online, a multi-session workshop on the ways in which graduate students might consider crafting an online presence. Open to all USC grad students, this workshop looks at the array of social networking options, scholarly blogs and faculty Web sites to point out options for creating a productive online identity.
Questions? Please email Holly Willis. RSVPs appreciated. Read on for full schedule...

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The Blur + Sharpen Screening series presents: "Time Out of Place"
Thursday, February 26 at 8:00pm in SCA 108

The city becomes both a focal point and the backdrop for a series of videos made over the last decade that reflect a fascination with urban space, movement, mapping and the possibility of art. Highlights include Thomson & Craighead’s “desktop documentary” titled Flat Earth, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt’s Time Out of Place, which attempts to portray the city’s past, present and future simultaneously, and the usual array of music videos and design shorts.

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UC Santa Cruz-based software designer and theorist Warren Sack will present a talk titled "Software Studies" tomorrow morning at 11:00 at the Annenberg Research Park (Kerckhoff Hall) colloquium series: "Since software design is a process of writing, the “computer revolution” can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium. In this presentation I want to introduce software studies, examine its history in computer science, and compare it to analogous work in science studies, media studies, and cultural studies."

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If you have ever thought that today's wintry economic climate may mean that your future as an art world star or industry heavyweight is less assured than it used to be, tomorrow's graduate student workshop sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy is designed to open your eyes to options in the world of technology-enhanced teaching and to show how your skills and sophistication with computational and interactive media may just be your ticket out of this dump. The Future of (Mediated) Scholarship workshop series kicks off Friday, January 30 at 2:00 p.m. with an overview of digital scholarship, the digital humanities, and new directions in technology-enhanced teaching and learning. Open to all USC grad students, this broad survey will touch on the ways in which research, publishing, and scholarly interaction are shifting, sketching the conceptual, intellectual and pedagogical context for the series. After this, the workshop will focus on the use of online tools for organizing research, and the creation of online spaces to enhance one’s teaching. RSVPs appreciated

Complete workshop description is here

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Jabari Mahiri from the UC Berkeley School of Education will present a talk titled "Digital Teachers: Engaging New Literacies in Urban Schools" as part of the Annenberg Research Park Colloquium series 11:00-12:00 on Tuesday November 18 at Kerckhoff Hall.

This presentation discusses research from an 18 month university/public school collaboration and intervention that begin in the summer preceding and continued through the 2007 - 08 academic school year. The research took place in the challenging setting of an urban, continuation high school in Northern California. The the main goal of this research was to develop and document an approach to teacher professional development that integrated effective principles of teaching with successful strategies for digitally mediating student learning. Teachers were supported and guided in developing perspectives and skills needed to take greater advantage of new media and new information sources in conjunction with relevant connections to youth experiences and interests.

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With fear, uncertainty and misinformation dominating the discourse of copyright and intellectual property, Fair Use has become one of the most vexing issues in today’s academic landscape. This day-long event at USC’s Annenberg Research Park addresses these issues head-on with a series of presentations and discussions with key players in the advancement and redefinition of fair use, coupled with a faculty showcase and hands-on workshops at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. The goal of this event is to bring clarity to questions of fair use for scholars, students and educators working with copyrighted media for research, teaching and electronic publication.

Visiting presenters include Peter Jaszi, legal architect of the Center for Social Media's Best Practices in Fair Use guides, Eric Faden, creator of the viral Disney cutup A Fair(y) Use Tale, Eric Steuer, Creative Director of Creative Commons, who brought the world the remixable Wired CD, and Francesca Coppa, co-founder of the Organization for Transformative Works.

We believe this event will facilitate some much-needed discussion of the state of contemporary Fair Use and where we should be setting our sights for the future. The event is free and open to the public. See complete schedule below.

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Remember to show up for tonight's Pecha Kucha extravaganza at the Annenberg Research Park (746 W. Adams Blvd.) at 7:00PM. The night is hosted by Howard Rodman and features an amazing lineup of artists and designers, including Mike Mills, Rebeca Méndez, Karin Fong, Hasan Elahi, Juan Devis, Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton. Twenty slides at twenty seconds each equals interactive-media-performance at its best.

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On Tuesday October 8, the Annenberg Research Park Colloquium series presents Kathleen Fitzpatrick, who will discuss the electronic journal MediaCommons, and preview a new book project titled Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the Academy. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of English/Media Studies at Pomona College and founder and co-coordinating editor of MediaCommons.

The presentation starts at 11:00 AM in the Kerckhoff Living Room (734 W. Adams, between Figueroa and Hoover), followed by a discussion from 12:30-1:30 over lunch.

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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

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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!

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The New Ecology of Things comes to ZML this Friday April 25 1:00-2:30PM!
The New Ecology of Things (NET) is a research initiative to explore emerging forms of interactive communication brought about by pervasive networked technologies. The project began as a studio class run by Art Center's Graduate Media Design Program (MDP) and has evolved into a conceptual model, a forum for discussion, an ongoing series of projects, technological inventions, and new issues for design pedagogy. The NET website, which is part of a transmedia publication that includes a book, a poster, and video content for mobile devices, just launched in March 2008.

Join us for a panel discussion with three of key designers of the NET project from Art Center College of Design, Phil van Allen, Anne Burdick and Nik Hafermaas, who will discuss the project and its multiple approaches to issues of design, technology and theory. This event is part of the iMAP/Adobe Design | Technology | Theory series and will be simulcast live via Adobe Connect. To attend virtually, please register here.

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Please join the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy for the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship 1st Annual Senior Thesis Showcase, featuring a gala reception and exhibition of student projects. Witness the innovative work produced by students from all corners of the campus, featuring interactive projects related to biology, engineering, international relations, psychology, sociology, cinema, business, theater, and more.


Friday April 18, 2008

5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The event is free and open to the public, but we ask that you RSVP:
imlrsvp@cinema.usc.edu

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Wednesday, April 2, 4:00 - 5:30
Zemeckis Media Lab (RZC 201)

Throughout the Web's short history, creative people have wielded code to make interactive experiences that are delightful, innovative, and fun. This talk, presented in conjunction with USC's Web design contest Webfest, will give a subjective history of the Web and computational design, starting with early hypertext experiments from the mid-1990s to recent media-rich works.

Peter Cho is a Los Angeles-based media artist and designer. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the UCLA Design | Media Arts department, where his work dealt with issues of language, writing, and meaning and a Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab, where his design research explored custom models for typography in time-based and reactive media. He has received honors for his work from Ars Electronica, Tokyo Type Directors Club, New York Art Directors Club, ID Magazine, and Print Magazine. His work has been shown at the Telic Gallery, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Ars Electronica, Art Sonje, Seoul Arts Center, the Art Directors Club, and Cooper Union. His interests include issues of electronic textuality, narrative, and mapping.

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Alex Galloway presents Guy Debord's The Game of War
Monday, March 31, 2008: 3:30 - 4:30PM
Taper Hall Room 212

The Institute for Multimedia Literacy is pleased to present Alex Galloway, speaking on "Guy Debord's The Game of War." In this presentation, Galloway explores the contradiction between Debord — a symbol of radical politics and art in 1960s France — and the 19th century Napoleonic campaign game he created. In 1978, Debord designed and fabricated a board game called The Game of War. Thirty years later, Galloway's software collective RSG is resurrecting this largely forgotten game, translating instructions from French to Java and releasing it as an online computer game.

Galloway is an author and programmer who is also a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore. Galloway is the author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006) and a new book co-authored with Eugene Thacker called The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007). Galloway teaches at New York University.

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Join Erik Loyer of Song New Creative, Dmitri Siegel, art director for Urban Outfitters, and Peter Lunenfeld, Art Center College of Design for the first in a series of panel discussions exploring aspects of contemporary design, media and culture. The panel is taking place in the Zemeckis Media Lab (RZC 201) at 10:00AM on Monday November 19th. The discussion, titled "Designing for Convergence" is also being simulcast as an interactive online forum via Adobe Connect. Free and open to the public; follow this link to register online for remote participation. Sponsored by Adobe and iMAP

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Blur + Sharpen, a screening series sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, is pleased to present Machinima Artistica. This program of artist-made machinima focuses on a full range of expression, from the elegiac force of Phil Solomon and Mark Lapore’s haunting Untitled (for David Gatten) to a range of politically motivated critiques of violence and war, explorations of virtual being, and kinetic, abstract pieces that completely transform game worlds into spaces of awe and beauty. This is machinima like you've never seen it before! Curated by Holly Willis.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 : 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Robert Zemeckis Center's Ron Howard Theater
Free and open to the public

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Hold onto your mouse ears! In an unprecedented move, Disney-ABC is inviting students in the USC School of Cinematic Arts to participate in a remix contest using selected materials from Disney-ABC television shows and online content from the website ABC.com. This is not a joke! This is a real challenge with real cash prizes for the best remixes in six categories including Music Videos, Mashups and Remix Trailers. Winners in each category will receive a cash prize and their work will appear on ABC.com. Details are still forthcoming, but a representative from the Digital Media Group at Disney-ABC will be on campus next Wednesday Oct 10th at 5:00PM in the Zemeckis Media Lab (RZC 201) to answer all your (many, many) questions and expressions of incredulity. The times they are a-changin'.

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This Friday beginning at 8:00PM Monumento 872 offers an opportunity to unearth and engage downtown Los Angeles in the night using mobile devices, GPS tracking, and media databases, that become part of a live media collage created by visitors, surrounding communities, and online participants. The evening of culture will explore artistic and historical landscapes of Los Angeles through the expressive potential of emerging mobile media, live music, graph art, artist performances, and an installation of art objects. The event celebrates and takes place in one of Los Angeles' latest "historical cultural monuments", the Juncture Block Building, and at the new Los Angeles State Historic Park.

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On Tuesday, March 27th, USC Free Culture is hosting an important panel titled "Intellectual Property Rights and the Modern University: How to Move Forward."

Just last week, the Recording Industry Association of America sent out its second wave of threats to universities demanding the names of students suspected of downloading music. Some universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison have denounced these bullying tactics, while the University of Nebraska has begun billing the RIAA for each complaint they receive. Come find out exactly how USC's administration has responded and what kind of leadership role our university could take in the future. Panelists will also discuss the movement to reform intellectual property policies within the school of Cinematic Arts and the implications of copyright reform beyond the university.

This event is free and open to the public.
When: March 27, 2007, 5-6 pm.
Where: USC's Taper Hall, Rm 301

Moderator: Geoffrey Cowan - Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication
Panelists: David A. Abel - President, CEO, ABL, Inc.
Publisher/Managing Editor The Planning Report and Metro Investment Report. Chairman, New Schools/ Better Neighborhoods
Lincoln Bandlow - Partner, Fox, Spillane & Shaeffer and Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School of Journalism
Larry Gross - Director, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Michael Renov - Associate Dean, USC School of Cinematic Arts and Professor of Critical Studies
Jen Urban - Director, USC Intellectual Property Clinic and Clinical Associate Professor, USC Gould School of Law

For additional information on these issues, see USC's Free Culture website

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On Friday and Saturday February 9 - 10, the UC Digital Arts Research Network is sponsoring an amazing symposium and series of workshops for open source users, advocates, and developers at the EDA, Broad Art Center at UCLA. The symposium includes a stellar lineup of speakers and workshops on Friday and Saturday, preceded by a talk by Nicolas Negroponte on Thursday February 8th. Complete schedule is here.

Friday Feb 9 Symposium:
Cory Doctorow - USC, Boing Boing
Greg Niemeyer - UC Berkeley
David Cuartielles - Arduino.cc, K3 Malmo
Beatriz da Costa - UC Irvine
Xavier Amatriain - UC Santa Barbara, MATi, CREATE
Michael Zbyszynski - UC Berkeley, CNMAT
Ben Fry - Processing.org, Carnegie Mellon
Robert Nideffer - UC Irvine

Saturday Feb 9 Workshops:
Processing - Ben Fry
Arduino - David Cuartielles
PD - August Black

Admission is free but registration is required

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Today, Tuesday Jan 23rd at 7:00PM, USC's Free Culture group is having its second semester kick off in the Annenberg School West Lobby (opposite Heritage Hall)! Come and find out how you can get involved with various Free Culture projects for the coming semester. Or just come for the FREE PIZZA. Either way you can't lose!  

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The USC Free Culture club and Cinematheque 108 present a special screening of This Film Is Not Yet Rated tonight at 7:00 in Lucas 108. Director Kirby Dick will be present to discuss his controversial and important new film, which dares to take on the MPAA's double-secret ratings system and the shadowy figures who decide (when they're not filing lawsuits or sending cease-and-desist letters) what is safe for us to watch. Don't miss this rare opportunity! Free and open to the public. Read more...

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The Remix Weekend continues this afternoon and evening at the Annenberg Center! At 2:00 we will screen the winners of the Night of the Living Dead remix contest (good luck, Mike!), followed at 3:30 by a panel discussion on the Roots and Future of Remix. At 5:00, IMD's own Perry Hoberman will perform a live, algorithmic remix of a Laurie Anderson talk, followed by our closing keynote address by Joi Ito at 5:30. A reception and Blur+Sharpen remix video program follows and then the weekend concludes with the mind-altering antics of the TV Sheriff at 7:30PM. You don't want to miss this!

Complete schedule is here.

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Don't miss the start of Remix Weekend at the Annenberg Center this Saturday November 4! This 2-day extravaganza begins at 12:30 with a series of hands-on remix workshops, including Barbara Lattanzi's Optical De-dramatization Engine and the low-tech magic of Animal Charm. At 6:30PM archivist, artist and activist, Rick Prelinger will deliver our first keynote presentation/collage/call to arms in the copyright wars, followed by a VJ performance and file-sharing party hosted by Rene Garcia and Leonardo Bondani: bring your DVDs and put on your own VJ show! And at 9:30, we are very proud to host the world premiere of Anne McGuire's Adventure Poseidon, The (The Unsinking of My Ship), a cinematic spectacle unlike anything you have ever experienced! Complete schedule is here.

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Halloween may be over but the horror continues with an entire show of spine-tingling, experimental digital shorts and music videos tonight at 8:00PM in the Ron Howard Theater. Where else can you see Hieronymus Bosch images brought to life by the sounds of Buckethead and bikini-clad girls performing amputations with dull instruments?

Blur+Sharpen screenings take place in the Ron Howard Theater at the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (3131 S. Figueroa St. across from the Shrine Auditorium). Free and open to the public. More Information

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Blur + Sharpen returns with a show of text-based videos that showcase the power of designed typography. Highlights include Dutch graphic artist Mieke Gerritzen’s acclaimed Beautiful World, a confrontational exploration of visual signs, codes and slogans that questions globalization and consumer identity in a fast-paced moving graphics extravaganza. We’ll also screen a pair of jazzy, Web-based pieces by the Korean collective Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the ASCII vision of Beck by Associates in Science and other shorts and music videos. Complete program is here.

The show will begin immediately after Simon Penny's 511 presentation on September 27 at 8:00PM in the Ron Howard Screening Room, Zemeckis Center, 3131 South Figueroa - Free and open to the public!

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In case you missed Cory Doctorow's notice on BoingBoing, the first meeting of USC's newly formed Free Culture group is taking place this Monday 9/11 at 6:30PM in the lobby of the Annenberg School building (not the Annenberg Center). The meeting is open to graduate and undergraduate students and faculty who are interested in the current battles over copyright and control of the public domain, as well as USC's own intellectual property policies. Cory Doctorow will speak briefly and there will be free pizza -come ready to fight for your right to participate in media culture.

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The Annenberg Center's Networked Publics group is sponsoring a talk by Howard Rheingold on Monday April 3, 2:00-4:00 at ACC. The talk is titled "Technologies of Cooperation: A New Story About How Humans Get Things Done"

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