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Transcriptions
Colloquium Series: Index
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olloquia events in the Transcriptions
Project are small, intimate forums in which a
visiting speaker talks with project faculty and
students. Colloquia are usually held in the Transcriptions
Studio, though sometimes speakers visit a
class in the project's Literature
& Culture of Information undergraduate
specialization. The emphasis in colloquia is on
searching, extended discussion of issues raised
by a short presentation or pre-circulated paper.
See also Calendar
of Events. |
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2002-2003 Colloquia |
Spring 2003
| Geert
Lovink,
Independent Media Theorist and Net Critic
Lovink is an internationally known independent
media theorist and Net critic, the founder
of the influential Nettime mailing lists
(scene of some of the most vital discussions
of Internet culture among leading social,
artistic, and cultural critics from around
the world), a member of of the "alternative
media" or "anti-media" group
Adilkno (Amsterdam Foundation for the Advancement
of Illegal Knowledge), and a cofounder of
the online community server Digital City.
Recently, he published two books in the
MIT New Media series entitled Dark Fiber:
Tracking Critical Internet Culture
and Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with
the Virtual Intelligentsia. (For a
fuller online bio, see http://laudanum.net/geert/biography.shtml).
Lecture by Geert Lovink,
"The Rise and Fall of the Dot.coms"
Monday, April 14,
3:30PM, South Hall 2635
Colloquium with Lovink discussing his
recent work
Friday, April 18 3:30PM - 5:00PM South Hall
2509
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Winter
2003
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Scanner,
Sound and Digital Artist
The UCSB Art Studio Department and the
English Department's Transcriptions Project
are co-sponsoring two events on March 12,
2003, featuring Scanner, an innovative sound
and digital artist. Scanner's diverse body
of work includes soundtracks for films,
performances, radio, and site-specific intermedia
installations. He has performed in and created
works for many art spaces, including San
Francisco MOMA (USA), Hayward Gallery (London),
Pompidou Centre (Paris), Tate Modern (London)
and the Modern Museum (Stockholm). His early
work used "found" (scanned) cell
phone conversations as the raw material
for his aural collages. His recent compositions
incorporate the hidden noises of the modern
metropolis. For more information see: <http://www.scannerdot.com>
and <http://www.posteverything.com/bette>.
Colloquium with Scanner
Mar. 12, 2003 (3:00-4:15
pm ), Art Studio 2220 (e-studio room)
For this event, Scanner will speak with
the English Department's LCI students as
well as with Art Studio students. The event
is co-hosted by Professors Marko Peljhan
of Art Studio and Rita Raley of English.
Lecture by Scanner
Mar. 12, 2003 (5:00-6:30 pm), Isla Vista
Theater 1 (see
location #5 on map)
Scanner will present a lecture at 5 pm
in Isla Vista Theater I as part of the UCSB
Art Studio Department and College of Creative
Studies Annual Symposium series.
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Fall
2002
| David
Carson,
Graphic Designer, David Carson Design, Inc.
The UCSB Art Studio Department and the
English Department's Transcriptions Project
are co-sponsoring two events on October
30th featuring David Carson, one of the
most influential of contemporary graphic
designers. After starting out as a professional
surfer and high-school sociology teacher,
Carson created experimental graphics, layouts,
and typography for such youth, music, or
alternative culture magazines in the 1980s-90s
as Transworld Skateboarding, Beach Culture,
and, most famously, Raygun. His exploration
of allegedly "illegible" or "non-communicational"
design styles (showcased in his 1995 The
End of Print) has had a major impact
on such mainstream magazines as Wired
and on recent advertising styles in a variety
of media. Carson has recently created experimental
and commercial work for video, film, and
the Web. His work for print media is also
cited by Curt Cloninger, author of Fresh
Styles for Web Designers (Eye Candy From
the Underground) as one of the formative
influences on advanced Web design. (See
Carson's innovative Website for more information:
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/)
Discussion and Interview with David
Carson
Oct. 30, 2002 (3:00-4:15
pm), Transcriptions Studio, South Hall 2509
(see
map)
For this Transcriptions colloquium, Carson
will be publically interviewed by Luke Matjas
of Art Studio and College of Creative Studies
and Alan Liu of the Transcriptions Project.
Carson's work is regularly taught in Transcriptions/LCI
courses, including English
197, "Literature & Graphic Design,
1900-2000."
Lecture by David Carson
Oct. 30, 2002 (5:00-6:30 pm), Isla Vista
Theater 1 (see
location #5 on map)
Carson will present a lecture at 5 pm in
the Isla Vista Theaters (theater 1) as part
of the UCSB Art Studio Department and College
of Creative Studies Annual Symposium series.
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| Oct.
17 , 2001 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
Sue
Thomas, Artistic
Director of trAce
Online Writing Centre; Principal Lecturer,
Dept. of English & Media Studies, Nottingham
Trent U., UK
"Imagination and Reality: Print-Based
Writers Working on the Web"
Sue Thomas is Artistic Director of the traCe
Online Writing Centre in England, an
organization that promotes and facilitates
creativing writing by using the Internet
to connect writers and readers around the
world, to provide consultancy and instruction
in creative writing, and also to encourage
the active use of digital media in creative
writing. Recently, trAce organized its second
International
Conference on Writing and the Internet (2002).
Thomas recently completed The Virtualist
/or/ Poetics of the Network. Her published
books include Water (Overlook Press,
1994), Creative Writing: A Handbook For
Workshop Leaders (U. Nottingham Press,
1995), Correspondence (The Women's
Press, 1992). See her info
page.
In this colloquium, Thomas will talk about
the trAce "Mapping the Transition"
project as well as her 1992 novel Correspondence
(which examined pre-Web human/machine relationships)
and her recentThe Virtualist (a nonfiction
exploration of the relationship between
physical and virtual landscapes that she
calls a "Walden of Cyberspace").
Thomas suggests a perusal of the following
sites as well as the trAce
home page:
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2001-2002 Colloquia |
Spring 2002
| June
12, 2002 (2:00-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
Presentations
by LCI Student Research Teams (Jeff
Kent, Patrick Mirjahangir, Eric Overholt,
Andi Rosenberger
In 2001-2002, Transcription's Literature
& Culture of Information (LCI) Specialization
organized two experimental undergraduate
research teams (one in winter, another in
spring) to give students exposure to research
work in the humanities in collaboration
with graduate students and faculty. Students
on the teams worked as paid research assistants
under the supervision of a teaching assistant
and the Transcriptions faculty. This end-of-the-year
presentation showcases the feature articles
and research the students created for the
new LCI
Magazine. Topics include
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| May
2, 2002 (12:30-1:45 pm): Special Guest Visitor
in Prof. Alan Liu's English
197, Literature & Graphic Design:
Victoria
Vesna, Prof.
and Chair, Department of Design/Media Arts,
UCLA School of the Arts
Victoria Vesna—digital and network
artist, professor, and chair of the Department
of Design/Media Arts at the UCLA School
of the Arts. Previously, Vesna taught in
the Art Studio department at UCSB. Her major
recent works have included digital projects
and installations titled notime:
Building a Community of People with
No Time and Bodies,INC.
Assignment for class: Students will be expected
to talk to Victoria Vesna about her work
and to ask her questions.
As preparation, please browse Victoria
Vesna's Web site and get a sense of
her work
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| April
22, 2002 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
Lev
Manovich,
Professor, Visual Arts Dept., UC San Diego
Discussion with Lev Manovich about
New Media
In residence at UCSB as the Digital
Cultures Project Fellow, Lev Manovich
is a well-known theorist and practitioner
of digital media. His book The Language
of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) is
assigned reading in several LCI courses.
He is also the author of Tekstura: Russian
Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University
Press, 1993) as well as many articles published
in more than twenty countries. Manovich
was born in Moscow and has been working
with computer media as an artist, computer
animator, designer, and programmer since
since 1984.
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Fall
2001
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2000-2001 Colloquia |
Spring 2001
| April
6 , 2001 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
Michael
Heim, Professor,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,
CA
"The Classic Book and Avatar Chat":
A Research Overview with Hands-On Involvement"
In residence at UCSB during April as a visiting
fellow of the UC
The Digital Cultures Project, Michael
Heim's interactive discussion comparing
books to avatar chat will lead off a month
of workshops and other events related to
virtual reality. (Full
schedule of April's events) |
Fall
2000
| December
8, 2000 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions Studio,
South Hall 2509
Metacollege.com
and the Digital Classroom:
A Roundtable Discussion
Participants: Stephen Erickson (Metacollege.com);
Robert Hamm (Digital Cultures Project Research
Assistant); Alan Liu (Director, Transcriptions
Project); Chris Schedler (Metacollege.com)
; William Warner (Director, The Digital
Cultures Project)
Topic: This round-table discussion
will have a double focus: an overview of
the .com initiative Metacollege.com (founded
by UCSB engineering Professor Sanjoi Banerjee)
as well as a more general discussion of
what the digital classroom is and should
be. Those of us who have made use of new
digital technologies in the classroom have
quickly discovered that the attempt to use
these technologies pushes one into probing
questions about what a classroom actually
is and what it is we as teachers try to
do in that space. The roundtable will begin
with a short overview of what Metacollege.com
offers departments like our own; then each
participant will offer a short overview
of the issues and questions they would like
addressed in our general discussion. I hope
this gives us an opportunity to blend our
discussion of broad and abstract issues
with mundane and practical ones. |
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1999-2000 Colloquia |
Spring 2000
| April
10, 2000 (3:30-5:00 pm), Arts 2235
Harry Reese, Professor
of Art Studio, UCSB
"The Trailing Edge of Technology:
A Field Trip to Professor Reese's Studio"
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| May
23rd, 2000 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
Rita
Raley, Professor
of English, University of Minnesota
3:30 Lecture: "How
to Make Things with Words: Hypertext and
Literary Value" (first
paragraph and bibliography)
Location: English Dept. Seminar Room, South
Hall 2635-
5:00 Workshop: "Taxonomies of
Hypertext Fiction": Reading:
Espen Aarseth, "Introduction: Ergodic
Literature" (available online at the
site for his Cybertext
book) Location: Transcriptions Studio, South
Hall 2509
Also see Raley's courses, Hypertext
Fiction and Theory & Electronic
Literature and Culture, and her new
Web anthology of hypertext art, criticism,
etc: Hypermarks:
An Anthology of Electronic Literature
[Note: Prof. Raley joined the UCSB English
Department's faculty and the Transcriptions
Project in 2001] |
Winter
2000
| Monday,
March 13, 2000 (3:00-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
M.
D. Coverley
(pen name of Marjorie C. Luesebrink),
MFA, Hypertext Fiction Artist & Professor
of English, Irvine Valley C.
"The Crimson Orb: Technology and
Women on the WWW"
Event co-sponsored by the UCSB Women's
Center, College of Creative Studies, and
English Dept.
Marjorie Luesebrink teaches writing at
Irvine Valley College and has been making
hypermedia fiction since 1995. Her interactive,
hypertext novel, Califia,
is forthcoming from Eastgate Systems on
CD-ROM, spring 2000. Recent short fictions
on the web include: "Endless
Suburbs" (Iowa Review Web), "Rain
Frames" (Aileron), "Life
in the Chocolate Mountains" (Salt
Hill #7), "To
Be Here as Stone Is" with Stephanie
Strickland (Riding the Meridian), "The
Lacemaker" (The
Book of Hours of Madame de Lafayette
produced by Christy Sheffield Sanford),
and "Pao
Lien and the Cave Dragon, Wu" (the trAce
Millennium Project Gallery). Forthcoming
pieces include "Fibonacci's
Daughter" (New River, #7) and
"Eclipse
Louisiana" (Cauldron and Net,
April 2000). The February issue of Riding
the Meridian includes her project,
"The
Progressive Dinner Party" (with Carolyn
Guertin)—featuring 39 women writing
web-specific literature. She also serves
on the Board of Director for the Electronic
Literature Organization. |
Fall
1999
| Monday,
October 18, 1999 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509
Introducing Transcriptions:
Chris Schedler; Caroline Brehm; Diana Solomon;
Bill Warner and Alan Liu offering a Workshop
overview of hardware/software environment,
and social and cyber- etiquette for grad
students and faculty working in the Studio.
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| Monday,
November 15, 1999 (3:30-5:00 pm), South
Hall 2635
Alan
Liu,
Professor of English, UCSB
"Should We Historicize the Culture
of Information?" Alan Liu is presently
writing and teaching about the culture of
information. His earlier
work concentrated on the nature of the
historical understanding of literature.
Historical understanding is part of the
heritage of the humanities, perhaps never
more so than in the last few decades of
new historicist, cultural-critical, and
other contextualist criticism. The troubling
question he is currently wrestling with
in his research and pedagogy: is historical
understanding capable of representing the
contemporary culture of information? Or
is such understanding just another competing
media-effect, interface, mode of information,
or simulation to be kept open in a window
on the cultural desktop? Is "history"
more real than "media"? The following
are readings for the colloquium (print materials
available in the English Dept. office in
advance of the meeting):
- Alan Liu's talk at the English Institute,
Oct. 2, 1999, "The Laws of Cool
(Information Should Not Mean But Be),"
21 pages in typescript
- Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin,
Remediation: Understandng New Media,
pp. 3-19
- Alan Liu's Fall 1999 undergraduate course
on "The Culture of Information":
peruse the Schedule
page to observe the structure of the course
Online
materials prepared for the colloquium |
| Friday,
December 3, 1999
J. Hillis Miller,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
UC/Irvine
2:30 Discussion
of those selections of Professor
Miller's recent book, Black Holes,
which deal explicilty with telecommunications.
(pp. 89-183) You may pick up a copy of the
reading in the English Department in the
weeks before the discussion. (Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall 2509)
4:30 Public
Lecture: "Marcel on the
Telephone" English Department
Seminar room (South Hall 2635) |
Spring
1999
| Monday,
April 12, 1999
(3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions Studio, South
Hall
William
Paulson, Professor
of Romance Studies, U. Michigan
Discussion of Chapter V, "Literary
Culture and the Worlds of Science" from
his recently completed book, Literary
Culture and the Life of the World |
| Tuesday,
April 20, 1999 (2:00-3:30 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall
Richard
Grusin, Professor
of Communications, Georgia Tech
"The Web and Cultural Difference"
(also discussion of a chapter from his recently
published book, Remediation: Understanding
New Media) |
| Monday,
April 26, 1999 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall
Jackie Spafford,
Department of Art History, Slide Curator,
UCSB
"Student-Assigned
Websites" (presentation &
discussion) |
| Friday,
May 7, 1999 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall
Muriel
Zimmerman,
Writing Program, UCSB
"Digital Writing: A Technical Communication
Perspective" |
| Monday,
May 24, 1999 (3:30-5:00 pm), Transcriptions
Studio, South Hall
Carol Pasternack,
Professor of English, UCSB
"Using the Web in the Writing
Components of Literature Courses" |
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