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<h1><b>University of California, Riverside Events<br><br>
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</b></h1><h2><b>Anne Balsamo<br><br>
</b></h2>Thursday, October 5, 2006<br>
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.<br><br>
Location:
<a href="http://www.campusmap.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/mapit.cgi?loc=HMNSS">
Humanities & Social Sciences Building</a> 1500<br>
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Category: Lecture<br>
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Description: Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological
Imagination<br><br>
Thursday, October 5th<br>
3:00 PM<br>
HMNSS 1500<br><br>
What insights can cultural critics and other humanists contribute to the
development of new technologies and digital applications? To explore this
question, this talk will present several digital media projects including
examples of reading devices of the future.<br><br>
Anne Balsamo serves as the Director of Academic Programs at the
University of Southern California’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
She is also a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies. In
addition to her scholarly positions, Anne has been a technologist and new
media designer for more than a decade. In 2002, she co-founded Onomy
Labs, Inc., a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company
that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED
(Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at
Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media
genres. She held the rank of Principal Scientist, and served as project
manager and new media designer for the development of RED’s interactive
museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Prior to
joining the research staff at PARC, Balsamo was an associate professor in
the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia
Institute of Technology where she directed the graduate program in
“Information Design and Technology.” Her first book, Technologies of the
Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the
social and cultural implications of emergent biotechnologies. Her new
book project, “Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological
Imagination” examines the relationship between cultural theory, the
design of new media, and the ethics of technology development.<br><br>
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Open to: Public<br>
Admission: Free<br>
Sponsor: <a href="http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/">Center for Ideas
& Society<br><br>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype"><b><i>D. Charles Whitney</i></b>,
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=2>Professor and Chair,
Creative Writing; Professor of Sociology<br>
Department of Creative Writing, 1607 HMNSS, <br>
University of California , 900 University Ave.<br>
Riverside, CA 92521-0118 951.827.6076 / Fax 951.827.3619</font>
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