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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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Speakers: Lulu Cao, Ala’ Diab, Bryan Jaycox, Cynthia Nie, Taiyoung Ryu, Nahil Sharkasi, Peter Van Dyke, and Brandi Wilcox,

Time: Wednesday, October 21, 6-8 pm

Location: The IMD Co-Design Lab (aka Flower Street Lab)

School of Cinematic Arts

Digital Collaboratory Annex

501 29th Street

Please join us at the IMD seminar this week for presentations and demonstrations by the IMD 3rd year Thesis students. The students will present for the 1st hour, and then run simultaneous demos during the second hour. Professor Mark Bolas will serve as facilitator for the evening.

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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Second Life Student Developers Group Presentation: Interactive Multimedia Classroom in SL

When: Friday, October 16, 2009 : 1:30pm to 3:30pm

Location: University Park Campus, BRI 202

Audience: Faculty, Staff & Students

Sponsored By: Center for Scholarly Technology

Contact: Tomo Isoyama, (213) 821-1336

E-mail: slsdg@usc.edu

Web Site: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~slsdg

RSVP: slsdg@usc.edu

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This year’s annual L.A. County Technology Week is featuring a panel discussion on the video game industry in L.A. The panel will be moderated by WIRED senior editor, Chris Baker, and will feature Kellee Santiago of thatgamecompany( and IMD alum), Alex Hastings of Insomniac Games, Amir Rahimi of EA (he worked with Steven Spielberg on their Boom Blox games), Chris Hewish of Dreamworks animation and a “yet to be named” panelist from Infinity Ward, makers of the “Call of Duty” series of games. There will also be an interactive exhibit area where attendees can play the games produced by our panelists’ game studios.

They have given us a bunch of special student discount codes. Students who register online by the 17th using the code will be given a $70 discount on the $85 ticket price (need to show valid student I.D. when you arrive at the event and receive your passes). Tickets include attendance to all panel discussions, a buffet luncheon and our keynote speaker. I have cards with the details and the discount code – will hand out at seminar and leave rest at IMD front(back) desk.

Speaker: Julia Heyward, independent artist

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 7, 6-8 pm

Location: Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC)

3131 S Figueroa Street (entrance on W 32nd St)

Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML), Room 201

Julia Heyward is currently working on a large scale triptych entitled collectively Nothing Random Access Memory. Part One: Miracles in Reverse, an interactive DVD-ROM, has been shown as a multimedia performance and an installation. Part Two: Points of View is an interactive installation of ‘faux windows.’ Part Three: The Gabriel Frequency is an installation as an electronic oracle. Nothing RAM looks at the nature and evolution of consciousness through our collective and subjective memories, mythologies and scientific theories. Nothing RAM is performative at times and ambient at others, but consistently travels between the personal and the global with a kind of slippery Jungian spirit, dipping reflexively into the collective unconscious, quantum theory, animism, neuroarcheology, science fiction and history. These quantum leaps find connections between the intentions of “local” crimes such as child abuse and “global” organized crimes such as war.

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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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The Future of Digital Scholarship workshop series for graduate students offers an overview of digital scholarship, digital humanities and new directions in technology-enhanced teaching and learning, with a lab component designed to unite theory and practice. This month’s hands-on workshop will introduce students to the newly released Version 5 of the Korsakow System, a user-friendly software applicationfor creating nonlinear, database narratives, documentaries and works of scholarship. This free, open source software will be demonstrated, and attendees will design and assemble their own K-Films. The workshop begins at 1:00PM at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at 746 W. Adams Blvd.

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

I’m the opener, going on around 10:30pm. Come hear some new & old songs about data, desperation, driving and death!