Berkeley Center for New Media/History & Theory in New Media Lecture Series presents:
HTNM Lecture- Peter Lunenfeld, 'Mia Laboro: Generative Humanities'
Thursday, September 19, 5:00pm-6:00pm, Berkeley
Peter Lunenfeld is a digital humanist who suffers from maker's envy. He watches artists, designers, architects and programmers as they give their endlessly iterative talk, the talk that only ever needs one name: "My Work." He will fill his allotted time (and yours, should you choose to commit) with performative therapy, a hybrid lecture and demo, an investigation of digital humanities as living practice. He will exhume two decades of contributions to print and culture. Topics will include the perils of transmediation, doing theory with back-up dancers, the academic as producer, and how to treat essays as media scripts. Warning, there will be Esperanto.
Peter Lunenfeld's books include the recently co-authored Digital_Humanities (MIT, 2012), as well as The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine (MIT, 2011), USER (MIT, 2005), Snap to Grid (MIT, 2000), and The Digital Dialectic (editor, MIT, 1999). As creator and editorial director of the Mediawork project, he produced a pamphlet series for the MIT Press that redefined the relationship between serious academic discourse and graphic design, and between book publishing and the World Wide Web. He is a professor in the Design Media Arts department at UCLA and a steering committee member of the campus-wide, interdisciplinary Digital Humanities undergraduate minor and graduate concentration. http://www.peterlunenfeld.com
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media with support from CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society).
DATE/TIME:
Thursday, September 19
5:00pm-6:00pm
LOCATION:
370 Dwinelle Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720
COST/REGISTRATION:
Free and open to the public.
MORE INFO:
Email: info.bcnm@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-495-3505
About Berkeley Center for New Media/History & Theory in New Media Lecture Series:
The Berkeley Center for New Media analyzes and shapes developments in new media through critical theory, critical practice, and innovation. We study how emerging technologies forge innovative means of expression and influence human interactions in the contexts of science, law, democracy, education, and art, through a multidisciplinary and global perspective.
