ATC: The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
with
DANM: Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program

Tuesdays 7:30 pm, Reception following
Communications 150 - Studio C - UCSC
Free and open to the public

Tuesday, October 30
Geert Lovink
New Media at the Crossroads
While new media arts still operate in a self-referential ghetto, dominated by techno-fetishism, the world at large has moved from utopian promises about virtual reality and cyberspace to a culture of massive use. What are the implications of this shift for the ‘electronic arts’ branch?

Hear Geert Lovink, associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam, media theorist and activist, Internet critic and author discuss where ‘new media arts’ may go from here.

Tuesday, November 6
Erkki Huhtamo
Urban Giantology: An Archaeology of the Public Screen
The current discussion about giant screens in public places often bypasses the simple fact that such displays have not always been with us. From fireworks to nineteenth-century phenomena like son et lumiere presentations and sky signs to the giant screens of today, Huhtamo develops a media-archaeology of the large screen, contributing to our understanding of the formation and underpinnings of the society of spectacle.

Erkki Huhtamo is a media archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator 
currently working as Professor of Media History and Theory at the UCLA 
department of Design | Media Arts.

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