Scott Fisher: IMD Forum for 9/24/08: Steve Anderson

(Wordle by S.Anderson)

Speaker: Steve Anderson, Asst. Professor, Interactive Media Division; Director of iMAP
Time: Wednesday, September 24, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Title: "Evocative Knowledge Objects and The War Between Theory and Practice"

Abstract:
Coined by Rich Gold in his book "The Plenitude," the concept of evocative knowledge objects may be mobilized across a wildly diverse range of theoretical and practical pursuits. This presentation considers a range of "objects" -- a term that is also here broadly conceived to include such things as a virtual environment, a media database, an electronic journal and an experimental graduate program -- as tools to think with. How does our engagement -- dare I say immersion? -- in contemporary cultures of media and technology affect our most basic ways of thinking, knowing and being in the world?

Bio: http://iml.usc.edu/remix/anderson/

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