Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface

Start: Apr 19 2007 - 8:00pm

End: Apr 21 2007 - 8:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Event Information:

The 1st International HASTAC Conference
April 19-21, 2007

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Thursday, April 19, 2007, 8:00 p.m. > Keynote Address: John Seely Brown, The Social Life of Learning in the Net Age > Nasher Museum Auditorium

One of the formative thinkers of the Information Age, John Seely Brown is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held for two decades. While head of PARC, Brown espoused radical innovation, expanding the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape, and nanotechnology. He was also a co-founder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the impact of globalization on business, the management of radical innovation, digital culture, ubiquitous computing, and organizational and individual learning. He is the author of several books and over a hundred scientific papers and, with Paul Duguid, wrote the transformative work, The Social Life of Information (2000).

9:00 p.m. - Reception in Nasher Museum Atrium. Music by Steve Burnett, thereminist. Exhibit pavilions will be open during the reception.

Friday, April 20, 2007 > Talks, Panels, Exhibits, Demos > Marriott Hotel and Durham Arts Council

8:00-9:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast, First Floor Hall

9:00-10:00 a.m. - James Boyle: Creative Commons, Science Commons, and Open Source - Ballroom 103.
Introduction: Priscilla Wald, Department of English and Co-Convener, "Interface" Seminar, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He is one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons, which is working to facilitate the free availability of art, scholarship, and cultural materials by developing innovative, machine-readable licenses that individuals and institutions can attach to their work, and of Science Commons, which aims to expand the Creative Commons mission into the realm of scientific and technical data. Professor Boyle is the author of numerous works, including Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press 1996) and, most recently, co-author of Bound By Law (CSPD 2006), a comic book on fair use in documentary film. He is the winner of the 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on the “intellectual ecology” of the public domain, and on the new "enclosure movement" that seems to threaten it. He currently writes as an online columnist for the Financial Times’ New Economy Policy Forum.

10:15-11:30 a.m. Breakout sessions:

#1. Funding the Digital Future: 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
#2. Interface Genealogies: 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
#3. Theorizing Interface: 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
#4. Electronic Book Review 4.0: Toward a Semantic Literary Web-based Interface: 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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM "Interfaces of the Future": Exhibits and demos. Ballroom 103. Continuous and scheduled demos. Details in conference packet.

12:00-2:00 p.m. - Lunch and Panel: The Foundations and Futures of Digital Humanities: Discussion led by John Unsworth. Ballroom 101/102.

Introduction: Kathleen Woodward, Departmenr of English and Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he served as the Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center. He co-chaired the national commission that produced the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Science, on behalf of the American Council of Learned Societies, and he has supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities.
Panelists: Susan Brown, Orlando Project, University of Guelph; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MediaCommons, Pomona College; Henry Lowood, Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford University; Tara McPherson, Vectors, University of Southern California; Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library, University of California Libraries; Kenneth M. Price, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and The Whitman Archive, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Martha Nell Smith, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland

2:30-4:30 p.m. Breakout sessions:

#5. The World Wide Web Evolves 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
#6. Racing (through) Domains 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
#7. Connecting the (Virtual) Dots 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
#8. Innerspace and Interface 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

4:30 p.m. Open time, Downtown Durham. Demos will be on open for screening. Conference participants are invited to visit downtown galleries, artist spaces, pubs, and cafes (maps provided).

6:00-8:00 p.m. - Cash bar at Marriott

6:30-7:30 p.m. - Conference Banquet - Ballroom 101/102

7:30-8:30 p.m. - Rebecca Allen: Global Interfaces, Intimate Interfaces and the Interface between Art and Technology

Introduction: David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute and HASTAC Co-Founder

9:00-11:00 p.m. - Rene Garcia (VJ Cyops) - ReMix2. PSI Theatre, Durham Arts Council. Performance artist and VJ Rene Garcia (VJ Cyops) will create a live remix of video and soundscapes to propel us through critiques of race, terrorism, and the neo-surveillance state to a dance-hall evening of community, activism, and resistance.

Saturday, April 21 > Talks, Panels, Exhibits, Demos > Duke University: School of Nursing (307 Trent Drive), John Hope Franklin Center (corner of Erwin Rd. and Trent Dr.), FCIEMAS (100 and 101 Science Dr.)

The morning events are open to conference registrants and to the public (free of charge and on a space available basis)

8:30-9:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast Atrium & Patio, Duke University School of Nursing Building

9:00-10:30 a.m. - The Future of Learning: Three Perspectives

Introductory Remarks: Provost Peter Lange, Duke University (DukeEngage)

Panelists:

"Building the Field of Digital Media and Learning" Julia Stasch, Vice President, Human and Community Development, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
(http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org)
"The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age" Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, (http://www.futureofthebook.org/HASTAC/learningreport/about/url)
"A Public School Perspective on the Future of Learning" Dr. Carl Harris, Superintendent, Durham Public Schools,

Discussion Leader: Connie Yowell, Director for Digital Media, Learning and Education, MacArthur Foundation

10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

At the Interface of Everything A rare conversation across domains among digital visionaries. The outcome will be a mind-map of the conference and a game-plan for unforseeable futures.

Moderator:

Anne Balsamo, "Technohumanist," Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Collaboratory for Technology and Culture, University of Southern California

Participants:

Rebecca Allen, UCLA, new media design, universal access
Ruzena Bajcsy, UC-Berkeley, tele-immersive environments
James Boyle, Duke University Law School, creative commons, science commons, open source
Rachael Brady, Duke University, scientific visualization
John Seely Brown, Former Xerox Chief Scientist and Director, Xerox PARC, radical innovation
Jonathon Cummings, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, distributed research teams, collaboration
Dan Connolly, MIT, W3C technical architecture
Anna Everett, UC-Santa Barbara, media and race theory
Kevin Franklin, UC Humanities Research Institute, global access grid
Lev Manovich, UC-San Diego, new media art and theory
Fred Stutzman, UNC-Chapel Hill, social networks research
Douglas Thomas, USC, cultural studies and conceptual blending

The below afternoon events are open to conference registrants only

12:30-2:00 p.m. Informal buffet lunch. 240 Franklin Center. Lunchtime conversation, "The Future of Art in a Digital Age"

Visual, sound, and multimedia artists (whose work will be performed or shown throughout the conference) address the problems and potentials of making art in a technological age.
Session Chair: Kristine Stiles, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University. Participants: Anya Belkina, Visual Artist, Rumi, Duke University; J-Bully (a.k.a. Robi Roberts), Rapper, MiX TAPEStry, Duke University; René Garcia, VJ, Video artist University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Suguru Goto, Bodysuit, Robotic Music, Visiting Artist, Ohio University; Scott Lindroth, Composer, Rumi, MiX TAPEstry, Duke University; Mendi + Keith Obadike, Music, Live Art, Conceptual Internet Art, Princeton University and William Paterson University

2:00-3:15 p.m

#9. Ludic Depths: Games, Narratives, Platforms 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

2:00-5:00 p.m. Guided Tours for General Attendees (groups of 10-20). Demos include presentations by the artists or developers, screenings, and interactive experiences. John Hope Franklin Center:

Franklin Center Media Gallery: "Ex Machina" installation by artists Christian Karkow: interactive sculpture
Franklin Center Main Gallery, John Hope Franklin Center: "On Reading" Exhibit by Wendy Ewald
Screening of performance of Nasuh bu Rumi, multimedia concert by artist Anya Belkina and composer Scott Lindroth
Screening of internet and multimedia art work by Mendi + Keith Obadike
Screening of performances by Suguru Goto of BodyWorks and Robot Music
Games Exhibit in the Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS). Student-designed interactive games, Virtual Nasher, and demo of pedagogical uses from the FOCUS Games2Know cluster and How They Got Game. IMPS and applications designed by Mark Olson, Tim Lenoir, and Zach Pogue.
Video of MiX TAPEStry by J-Bully (which premiered at InCommon, Katrina: After the Storm"). Inspired by Allison Clark, music by Scott Lindroth, and graphics by John Jennings.
Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine, and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS): "Future and History of the Interface": In this interactive exhibition, one can physically explore and map the paths of influence that transformed the human/computer interface from card-punched command stacks into immersive 3D worlds. Designed specifically for the Interface conference, "Future and History of the Interface" encompasses two whole-body interfaces to the same conceptual dataset. A fully immersive virtual reality experience is offered in the DiVE tank. At this location, visually complex patent and citation networks are presented in two parallel planes. The immersive interface supports the highlighting and extrusion of connections of interest. A participant can discover the interconnectedness of ideas and relationships that led to current innovations. The second whole-body interface is offered in The Studio using motion detection. Three narratives depicting independent pathways leading out of the work from Xerox PARC are triggered through the clustering of individuals within The Studio. Participants must collaborate to invoke the different narratives. Interviews include digital era pioneers such as Butler Lampson and Tim Berners-Lee.