[Cwgrad-announcements] USC's Anne Balsamo to speak on Technology and Culture

[Charles Whitney]

University of California, Riverside Events




Anne Balsamo


Thursday, October 5, 2006
   3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location: 
<http://www.campusmap.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/mapit.cgi?loc=HMNSS>Humanities 
& Social Sciences Building 1500
   <http://www.parking.ucr.edu/index.php?content=services/visitor_permits.html>Parking 
Information

Category: Lecture

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Description: Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination

Thursday, October 5th
3:00 PM
HMNSS 1500

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.

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.



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Open to: Public
Admission: Free
Sponsor: <http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/>Center for Ideas & Society


D. Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair, Creative Writing; Professor 
of Sociology
Department of Creative Writing, 1607 HMNSS,
University of California , 900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA  92521-0118 951.827.6076 / Fax 951.827.3619
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