Feb 14 - Feb 24
RE:(T[P|RO])SPECTIVE
Talan Memmott, exhibition
Feb 17
3 - 5 pm, Skiles 02
Lectures on Art and Technology
Yvonne Spielman & Jane Prophet
Exhibition Dates: Feb 14th to Feb 24th.
The exhibition would be open from 11am - 3 pm on each of these days.
The lectures will take place at 3-5pm on Thursday, February 17, 2005, in Skiles 02.
Prof. Diane Gromala along with her students presented the ongoing work in Biomedia Lab to the enthusiastic audience of corporate and government leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, academics and venture capitalists.
Talan Memmott joins LCC as our first Distinguished Visiting Graphic
Designer
http://www.memmott.org/talan/index.html
Talan Memmott is a hypermedia artist/writer/editor originally from San Francisco, California. He is the Creative Director and Editor of the highly regarded
online literary hypermedia journal BeeHive, which he started
in 1998. Memmott comes to electronic art/writing from
a background in visual art (painting, installation, performance, video), theater, music, and writing. He
has also spent a number of years working in web development as a programmer and designer.
Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency
Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala
In Windows and Mirrors the authors argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other media like printing, film, radio, and television. The computer as medium creates new forms and genres for artists and designers; Bolter and Gromala want to show what digital art has to offer to Web designers, education technologists, graphic artists, interface designers, HCI experts, and, for that matter, anyone interested in the cultural implications of the digital revolution.
Eugene Thacker
As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge—life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is what concerns Eugene Thacker in this timely book, a penetrating look into the intersection of molecular biology and computer science in our day and its likely ramifications for the future.
Integrating approaches from science and media studies, Biomedia is a critical analysis of research fields that explore relationships between biologies and technologies, between genetic and computer “codes.” In doing so, the book looks beyond the familiar examples of cloning, genetic engineering, and gene therapy—fields based on the centrality of DNA or genes—to emerging fields in which “life” is often understood as “information.” Focusing especially on interactions between genetic and computer codes, or between “life” and “information,” Thacker shows how each kind of “body” produced—from biochip to DNA computer—demonstrates how molecular biology and computer science are interwoven to provide unique means of understanding and controlling living matter.
Throughout, Thacker provides in-depth accounts of theoretical issues implicit in biotechnical artifacts—issues that arise in the fields of bioinformatics, proteomics, systems biology, and biocomputing. Research in biotechnology, Biomedia suggests, flouts our assumptions about the division between biological and technological systems. New ways of thinking about this division are needed if we are to understand the cultural, social, and philosophical dimensions of such research, and this book marks a significant advance in the coming intellectual revolution
Spring'04 Demo Day