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October 25, 2007 UCSC partners with UC Berkeley for new series on art, technology, cultureBy Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp@ucsc.edu
Over the past 10 years, UC Berkeley's Art, Technology and Culture colloquium (ATC) has gained international recognition for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. That acclaimed program now expands to UC Santa Cruz this fall, through a new partnership between the ATC and UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program. "ATC at UCSC" will bring to the campus groundbreaking artists, writers, curators, and scholars to present their research to the public. The new UCSC program begins on Tuesday, October 30, with a talk by University of Amsterdam professor of media and culture, Geert Lovink, at 7:30 p.m., in the Communications Building, Studio C. Admission is free and open to the public. "I have always been interested in having our students attend the ATC lectures at Berkeley, but they rarely had time to make the drive," noted Sharon Daniel, chair of UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media program."Now we can share speakers with UC Berkeley, and we also have funding to bring additional speakers directly to Santa Cruz." Daniel worked with acting dean of the Arts Division Margaret Morse and UC Berkeley's ATC director Ken Goldberg to coauthor a grant proposal that made the UCSC series possible. Funding for ATC at UCSC was awarded by CITRIS--the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. "All the talks at Berkeley--and now at Santa Cruz--are recorded and archived online," said Daniel. "So our 'franchise' will enhance this wonderful shared resource. ATC at UCSC co-director Maggie Morse and I are really excited about this opportunity to bring digital media scholars and artists to our students in the DANM program, the campus community, and to the public," she added. The first two lectures by ATC at UCSC will feature: • Geert Lovink--Tuesday, October 30 Geert Lovink is a media theorist and activist, Internet critic, and author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks, My First Recession and Zero Comments. He has worked on various media projects in Eastern Europe and India. Lovink is a member of the Adilkno collective and co-founder of Internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures, professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam. In 2005-06 Lovink was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.
Erkki Huhtamo is a media archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1958, he is currently a professor of media history and theory at the UCLA Department of Design & Media Arts. Huhtamo has published extensively on media archaeology and media arts, lectured worldwide, created television programs, and curated media art exhibitions. In the past few years, his research has dealt with topics such as peep media, Marcel Duchamp’s optical experiments, the archaeology of the screen, and the emergence of mobile media. Huhtamo is currently working on two books, one about the 19th-century moving panorama (University of California Press), and the other on the archaeology of interactivity. For more information about the series, contact Digital Arts and New Media program manager Felicia Rice at (831) 459-1554 or fsrice@ucsc.edu.
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