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 The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory sponsored In|Formation 2006-2007, a year dedicated to promoting the human and humane dimensions of technology and to forming new creative networks. Key institutions around the country offered intensive and innovative lectures and events for faculty, students and the general public. The Simpson Center and its UW partners worked under the rubric of Invitation with a focus on the beckoning and beguiling aspects of interactive technology and its social formations.
The centerpiece of the national effort was Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface, an unprecedented three-day mashup of ideas, demos, art, and conversation, driven by digital visionaries and practitioners from across domains and disciplines.
Selected audio and video footage will be available on the conference website soon.
May 1, 2007 • 3:30 pm • Communications 202 • Download e-Flyer
Forging a New Academic Identity:
Key Dilemmas & Challenges in Digital Scholarship
Paul Wouters (Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
April 30, 2007 • 5:30 pm • Town Hall Seattle • Download e-Flyer
Gaming, IMing, Internet: Onboard or Overbored?
Kids Speak Out about Living in the Digital Age
A Reclaiming Childhood event moderated by Katharyne Mitchell (Geography and Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities, UW).
April 28, 2007 • 10:00 am • Seattle Public Library • Download e-Flyer
Experiencing Communities: Bloggers' Perspectives
This symposium is the culminating event of Creating Community Through Blogging, a cross-disciplinary research cluster.
March 1, 2007 • 7:00 pm • Kane 120 • Download e-Flyer
The Art and Science of Social Robots
Cynthia Breazeal (Media Arts and Sciences, MIT)
Listen to the lecture (MP3)
Watch the lecture (Quicktime)
 Cynthia Breazeal directs the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab. She is internationally known for seamlessly blending scientific theories, artistic insights, and engineering principles to create compelling robotic creatures that have a lively social presence to those who interact with them. She has participated in the development of some of the world's most famous robots including the upper torso humanoid robot, Cog, and the sociable robot, Kismet. Her current research extends these themes in the area of human-robot relations to create cooperative and capable robots that can work and learn in partnership with people. Her research program strives to revolutionize the art and science of human-robot interaction and cooperation—to develop robots that engage with us as helpful partners that will ultimately play a valuable, rewarding, and unprecedented role in the everyday lives of ordinary people.
November 1, 2006 • 4:00 pm • Communications 120
Productivity, Criticality, and Pleasure: Digital Arts and Computer-Human Interaction
Simon Penny (Art and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University)
A comparison of the so-called New Media Arts and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a fascinating case-study in the historic tensions in the west between humanistic-cultural practices and techno-scientific practices. HCI and Digital Media Arts are approximately the same age, share a common concern with interaction between people and technology, and depend on similar technologies. Yet the intellectual, philosophical, and theoretical traditions from which they arise are starkly different and belie radically different motivations, commitments, approaches, and solutions. Penny takes an historical and theoretical overview of the differences and similarities in HCI and Media Arts focusing on the convergence of a common territory from differing directions by HCI and Media Arts. Sponsored by DXARTS.
Cyborg Democracy
Taught by Tom Foster (English), this course assesses the political claims made for new media and new technologies and to define possible points of articulation and critique between Marxist traditions and new theories of radical democracy, on one hand, and new technocultural formations, on the other. More...
Applications of Digital Technologies to Humanities Research
Autumn 2006 and Winter 2007 > HUM 411/DXARTS 411
Taught by Stacy Waters (DXARTS), this course offers students the opportunity to learn about the key technologies influencing and transforming humanities research and scholarly communication.
The Public Humanities across the Digital University
Winter 2007
Taught by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (IAS, UW Bothell) and Ron Krabill (IAS, UW Bothell), this course examines the relationship between the emergence of the Public Humanities and the Digital Humanities as complementary, praxis-oriented responses to pressing questions about knowledge production that address us at the onset of the 21st century. More...
Visual Documentation Praxis for Cultural Studies
Spring 2007
Through visual production exercises, classroom discussion, and half-day on-site workshops held at collaborating institutions, this course encourages students to explore how diverse forms of visual production can expand their research interests and forge unexpected connections within and beyond the university. Taught by Daniel Hoffman (Anthropology) and Kari Lerum (IAS, UW Bothell). More...
The three Danz Courses in the Humanities for 2006-2007 include key digital components in their instruction and themes:
Creating Community through Blogging
Led by Honni van Rijswijk (English) and Matthew Vechinski (English), this yearlong research cluster considers the status of blogs as texts as well as the ways in which blogs challenge conventional paradigms of research. Download e-Flyer for April 28, 2007 capstone symposium.
 In November 2005 the UW Graduate School, in partnership with the Simpson Center and the Divisional Dean for Arts & Humanities, sponsored a special session for humanities department chairs devoted to the digital humanities with Marsha Kinder (Cinema, Comparative Literature, and Spanish, USC). This served as an invitation to In|Formation Year 2006-2007.
Kinder directs The Labyrinth Project, which is creating inspiring work in what Kinder calls "database narrative"—an alternative way of conceptualizing data, one that conjures up multiple paths through cultural history, with memory in the making.
In preparation for the In|Formation Year 2006-2007 launch, twenty-five people from across the country associated with HASTAC met at the Simpson Center in September 2005. An afternoon session was devoted to showcasing groundbreaking digital humanities projects including the work of UW's Center for Digital Arts and Experiemental Media (DXARTS).
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