Nicolas Nova is an ethnographer and design researcher, working both as a Professor at the Geneva School of Arts and Design (HEAD – Genève) and co-founder of The Near Future Laboratory, a research organization based in Los Angeles, Geneva and Barcelona. His work focuses on observing and documenting digital and new media practices, as well...
Johanna Drucker, UCLA GSE&IS Johanna Drucker of the UCLA Information Studies Department, will give a talk on “Alphabet Histories: Knowledge Technologies and Historiography”.
Digital tools for surveying and representing important architectural heritage have recently become available at low or no cost to everyone including designers, historians, facility managers and tourists.Takehiko Nagakura, an architect from Tokyo and Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT, talks about his digital heritage projects at MIT that use computer graphics animations, photogrammetric modeling, panoramic...
Photo: "Colorful Containerland" by Todd Lappin Cinema and Media Studies Colloquium Miriam Posner Dendriform Capitalism tells the story of the development of the modern global supply chain through a close investigation of SAP, the software suite at the heart of most large supply chains. Despite this software’s pivotal role in mediating global economic relations, from...
What does the visual have to do with military occupation? How does the process of digitization affect the power relationship between Israelis and Palestinians; soldiers and citizens; occupiers and occupied? This mini symposium brings together three scholars who have written extensively on matters of visibility, the visual arts, and digital technology in the context of...
Seating is limited. Please RSVP to mposner@humnet.ucla.edu. Chet Van Duzer The Martellus Map, revealed with multispectral imaging. Photo via Yale News. In this talk I will give an account of a recent NEH-funded project to make multispectral images of a world map made by Henricus Martellus in about 1491, which is held by the Beinecke...
Aram Bartholl's work creates an interplay between internet, culture and reality. The versatile communication channels are taken for granted these days, but how do they influence us? According to the paradigm change of media research Bartholl not just asks what man is doing with the media, but what media does with man. The tension between...
Water governance and more-than-human digital democracy: Countering "soft capture" in hydraulic fracturing regulation throughindigenous community-led water monitoring systems Karen Bakker, Professor and Canada Research Chair University of British Columbia
Through a series of curious cases, Emma de Vries presents her research into the simultaneous dis- and reappearance of the letter in contemporary culture. The lecture traces epistolary imaginations in Media Art, and relates these to fears and fantasies around the cultural consequences of media-technological change. Emma de Vries is a PhD researcher at the...
This workshop provides an introduction to ESRI's ArcGIS desktop software. We will go over the fundamentals of how to use the software, including how to acquire data using UCLA and other resources, how to perform a spatial join, and how to symbolize data. This is recommended for first-time users and those needing a refresher in...
