In the heat of a Presidential election, it's an honor to announce the
speakers for this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Series. The ATC
will be the primary lecture series of the Center for New Media (CNM),
established last year as a result of Berkeley's New Initiatives
competition. More on the CNM can be found at http://cnm.berkeley.edu.

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Fall 2004 - Spring 2005 Speaker Program

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media


20 Sept:Sean Kelly, Philosophy, Princeton
Representing the Real: A Merleau-Pontean Account
of Art and Experience from the Renaissance to New Media

18 Oct:Mimi Nguyen, Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Star Personas and Fan Fictions: Bruce Lee,
JJ Chinois, and the Queer Technologies of Celebrity

1 Nov:Rirkrit Tiravanija, New York and Thailand
The Land

29 Nov:Sonya Rapoport, Leonardo/ISAST
From Homunculus to Golem: Tracking an Alter-Avatar

24 JanKatie Salen, Parsons School of Design and
Eric Zimmerman, gameLab, NYC
Making and Breaking Rules: Game Design as Critical Practice

28 Feb:Rachel Greene, Rhizome
The History of Net Art from 1995 to the Google IPO

7 Mar:David Byrne, Artist, Musician, NYC (*)
I [heart] PowerPoint

18 Apr:Marko Peljhan, Projekt Atol-Pact Systems and UCSB

From Utopian Determinism to Network-Centric Paradigms


Monday Evenings, 7:30-9:00pm, 160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
(*) Presented at the Pacific Film Archive

All Lectures are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by UC Berkeley's: Center for New Media, Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, College of Engineering
Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Center for Information Technology
in the Interest of Society, Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, and the
Townsend Center for the Humanities.

ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Assistant: Therese Tierney
Curated with ATC Advisory Board

For updated information, please see:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/

Contact: goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu, or phone: (510) 643-9565