Dena Seidel is the Director of the Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking. Seidel also supervises the Rutgers Film Bureau, the university's professional documentary office. Recently Seidel returned from Antarctica where she directed the feature documentary Antarctic Edge: 70° South funded by the National Science Foundation. Other films she is currently producing with her staff and students include Generation at...
A talk presented by Francisco Prado-Vilar, Director of Cultural and Artistic Projects at the Real Colegio Complutense (Harvard University) and Scientific Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Program for the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Advance registration not required. No fee. Limited seating. Self-service parking is in UCLA Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5. More...
Presentation and Discussion with Authors Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld Research Library (Charles E. Young), Library Conference Center The graphic novel Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data examines the role of technology and the implications of sharing our personal information online. Keller, a reporter at Al Jazeera America, and Neufeld, a...
Recent developments in media technology, and the growth of cybernetic culture over the past one hundred years, have made our reliance on authoritative knowledge structures even more tenuous than we originally thought they could be. Thinking of Foucault’s own queries, we might ask today how are things given to representation in the age of meta-...
Celia Pearce Associate Professor of Game Design, Northeastern University Co-Founder & Festival Chair, IndieCade IndieCade co-founder and author of Communities of Play will talk about play communities, social sculpting and curating culture in the context of multiplayer games, the independent game community, and artgames. Included will be discussion of Dr. Pearce’s anthropological research, curation and...
Are you interested in learning about multimedia instruction and techniques for improving instructional videos? We hope you’ll join us for an upcoming TES Talk, co-sponsored by Teaching and Learning Services and the Library Programs Committee. Emma Geller, a doctoral student in UCLA’s cognitive psychology program, will be speaking on using cognitive psychology to improve multimedia...
Civilian drones have extended some ideas associated with pyschogeographic wanderings, especially for the hobbyist. However, there is a serious side of drone operations for artists, journalists and organizations using drones. Civilian drones alter the functions of place and space, and the rise of media operators using drones across urban and regional environments is evolving. In...
Erkki Huhtamo is a shared professor between the Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media. He holds a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland. He is a media archaeologist, author, and exhibition curator.
Peter Hulme read Spanish at Leeds and took his doctorate at Essex in Literature. He has taught at Essex since 1975. He was closely involved with the various Essex Sociology of Literature projects and their many publications. His research interests centre on the relationships between literature, travel writing, anthropology, and colonialism, especially in the Caribbean,...
University of California Press. "The Book Publication Process”, a public talk, followed by Q/A. Reception to follow in Royce 306
