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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Conference web site: http://www.video24-7.org
Blog: http://diy.video24-7.org

Spaces are limited for attendance at the academic panels and the workshops. The video screenings are free and open to the public. Please help us spread the word about this event.

24/7: A DIY Video Summit will bring together the many communities that have evolved around do-it-yourself (DIY) video: artists, audiences, technology providers, academics, policy makers and industry executives. The aim is to discover common ground, and to chart the path to a future in which grassroots and mainstream, amateur and professional, artist and audience can all benefit as the medium continues to evolve.