embodiment

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction are encouraged.

Rebecca Allen spoke on "Global Interfaces, Intimate Interfaces and the Interface between Art and Technology" after dinner at HASTAC Friday evening.

Innerspace and Interface: Affect and representation are crucial to digital history, music, and dance.

Notes from the session "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)".

On Thursday, March 1st, Cynthia Breazeal (Associated Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT and director of the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab) gave a public talk at the University of Washington, Seattle campus, entitled "The Art and Science of Social Robots." The widely attended talk focused on four current projects at the MIT Media Lab...

Bill Seaman is the head of Digital Media at RISD, and luckily he's coming over at the invitation of Kristine Stiles to speak to the Interface Seminar. Seaman's main interests lie along the intersection of digital media, electrochemical computing, and artificial intelligence: an eclectic and productive combination.