HASTAC

I'm excited! Lulu, our Creative Commons publisher, has just delivered the first copies of "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," the Proceedings of the First International HASTAC Conference. You can download a PDF for free from Lulu or buy a printed copy (for $12.24) sent from directly to you by clicking here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2124631

 

 

"Redlining California," a project started by Richard Marciano at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, was previewed at HASTAC's very first gathering in 2003 or 2004. By crunching demographic statistics, guidelines offered by the Federal housing commission back to the 1930s, and global positioning systems, Marciana showed how early policies of discrimination map onto continuing segregation, economic disparity, and poverty in southern California, with implications for the whole country. Come to HASTAC II to see how far this remarkable project, now co-directed by Marciano and David Theo Goldberg, Director of UCHRI and HASTAC co-founder, has progressed and to see what a true collaboration across the humanities, social sciences, and computational sciences can yield. Their maps of then-and-now, prejudice in motion and poverty locked-down, will shock you and break your heart.

Friday's Techno-Travels Keynote is by Curtis Wong, previewing the WorldWide Telescope, a visualization tool that brings together all of the best images of the solar system in a way never seen before, and that will be released next year. Dazzling!

For the next few days, I will be posting about the upcoming HASTAC II conference right before Memorial Day in southern California . . . registration has been opened up so more people can enjoy this techno-travel extravaganza and plans are shaping up. Get on the bus!

There are only a few places left for the second annual HASTAC conference, "TechnoTravels," May 22-24,2008, University of California Irvine and UCLA. Register now!

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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)".

David Liu, a doctoral student in Religion at Duke, led our Interface Seminar on his theory of interaffectibility and took all of us on a beautiful journey from the pre-Socratics to paper airplanes.