Electronic Techtonics

Previous moments in media history illuminate what is and isn't new about "New Media." Meeting Room 105. Session Chair: Jennifer Rhee, Department of Literature, Duke University. Discussion Leader: Andrew Janiak, Department of Philosophy, Duke University. Panelists: Caitlin Fisher, Department of Film, York University, Canada, Interface Epistemology: Hypermedia Work in the Academy; Lisa Gitelman Department of Media Studies, Catholic University, Xerographers of the Mind: The Lost Idea of the Photocopy; Matthew Tinkcom, Graduate Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University, Eduction: A Theory of Value in the Digital Cinematic Epoch

Metaphors help us comprehend how digitality weaves, binds, encloses, bridges, spans, and navigates across technologies, spaces, and disciplines (from genomics to urban planning). Meeting Room #106. Session Chair: David Liu, Department of Religion, Duke University. Discussion Leader: Lev Manovich, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. Panelists: Sylvia Nagl & Sally Jane Norman, Department of Oncology, University College London, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Raranga Tangata: The Weaving Together of People; Nicole Starosielski, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Reskinning the Digital Surface: Borders and Immobility at the Interface; Sarah Sweeney, Digital Media Arts Program, Mercer County Community College, Way-Finding on the Web: Urban Planning and the Virtual Interface

Leaders from national agencies, private foundations, and industry discuss digital funding opportunities, initiatives, and visions. Meeting Room 108. Session Chair: Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University. Panelists: Brett Bobley, CIO and Director of Digital Humanities Initiative, National Endowment for the Humanities; Karl Brown, Associate Director, Applied Technology The Rockefeller Foundation; Jerry Heneghan, CEO, Virtual Heroes, and Chairman North Carolina Association for Advanced Learning Technologies (NCALTA); Gary Kebbel, Journalism Program Officer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Matthew Rascoff, Strategic Services Analyst, Ithaka; Diana Rhoten, Program Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation; Steven C. Wheatley, Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies; Constance M. Yowell, Director for Digital Media, Learning, and Education, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The Electronic Book Review showcases experiments in design, intellectual property, authorship, semantics, taxonomy, and reading practices. Meeting Room #107. Session Chair: Robert Mitchell, Department of English, Duke University. Discussion Leader: Victoria Szabo, Program in Information Science + Information Studies, Duke University. Panelists: Joseph Tabbi, Editor, EBR, Toward a Semantic Literary Web; Ewan Branda, Database and Application Designer, EBR, A Map of Relations: the Software and Data Architecture of EBR 4.0; Anne Burdick, Interface Designer, EBR, EBR 4.0: The Interface as a Tool for Reading & Writing

Complex and sometimes contradictory notions of narrative play out in hardware and software design, game structures, and historical modeling and pedagogy. Room 1011, School of Nursing. Session Chair: Victoria Szabo, Program in Information Science + Information Studies, Duke University. Discussion Leader: Patrick Jagoda, Department of English, Duke University. Panelists: Ian Bogost & Nick Montfort, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, New Media as Material Constraint: An Introduction to Platform Studies; Patricia Seed, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, Learning History by Designing Games: A New Approach to Teaching History; Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Department of Communications, University of California, San Diego, Internal Processes and Interface Effects: Three Relationships in Play

Affect and representation are crucial to digital history, music, and dance. Meeting Room 108. Session Chair: Marilyn Lombardi, Office of Information Technology, Duke University. Discussion Leader: Thomas MacCalla, Community Research Institute, National University. Panelists: Jennifer Boyle, Department of English, Hollins University and Carol G. Lederer Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University, The Hollins Community Project: Interfacing Affect; John Toenjes & David Marchant, Department of Dance, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Performing Arts Department, Washington University-St. Louis, Finding Humanity Within the Machine: Large Motor Movement Computer Interfacing as an Artistic Mindbody Integrative Practice; Ulrich Rauch & Tim Wang, Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology Group, University of British Columbia, Instructional Development, University of British Columbia, Art Spaces: Reconstructing the Past

Simulations, emergence, augmented life, and visualization technologies animate cultural spaces, historical enterprises, games, and corpora as well as the military. Meeting Room 105. Session Chair: Orit Halpern, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, and Department of Historical Studies, New School for Social Research. Discussion Leader: Mitali Routh, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University. Panelists: Timothy R. Tangherlini, Zoe Borovsky, & Todd Presner, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA Digital Humanities Incubation Group, Thick Viewing: Integrated Visualization Environments for Humanities Research on Complex Corpora; Helen Papagiannis, Joint Program in Communication and Culture,York University and Ryerson University, Augmenting Digital and Analog Memory; John H. Johnston, Department of English, Emory University, Artificial Life: New Media Object as a New Space of Exploration; Caren Kaplan, Cultural Studies Program (Women and Gender Studies), University of California, Davis, ‘Everything is Connected': Aerial Perspectives, the 'Revolution in Military Affairs,' and Digital Culture

Racial attitudes persist in digital media and in race-based surveillance but also in new methods for teaching civil rights history. Meeting Room 107. Session Chair: Anna Everett, Department of Film Studies, University of California - Santa Barbara. Discussion Leader: Allison Clark, Seedbed Initiative for Transdomain Creativity, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Panelists: Jessie Daniels, Urban Public Health Program/Community Health Education, CUNY, Hunter College, Cloaked Websites, Youth, and Digital Media: Thinking about Race and Civil Rights at the Interface; Simone Browne, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto, (Im)mobility Documents, Race, and Surveillance"; Irene Chien, Film Studies and New Media Program, University of California, Berkeley, Orienting Inner Space: Biofeedback Gaming and the Racialized Landscape of Mind, Body, and Spirit; Michele White, Department of Communications, Tulane University, The Hand Blocks the Screen: A Consideration of the Ways the Interface is Raced

Formative figures in the creation of the current Web--semantic Web, the grid, and social software--envision Web 3.0. Meeting Room 106. Session Chair: Paolo Mangiafico, Digital Projects, Duke University Libraries. Discussion Leader: Harry Halpin, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University, and School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Panelists: Dan Connolly, Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), How the W3C Process Got Its Stripes; Pat Hayes and Margaret Warren, Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Founder, CARMA (Cyber Arts, Research Music and Audio Productions), Artspeak: The Contemporary Artist meets the Semantic Web. Creating Formal Semantic Web Ontologies from the Language of Artists; David de Roure, Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Grid of People; Henry Thompson, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The Humanities, the New Empiricism, and the World Wide Web