Spring Quarter 2006

4.21.06

combined meeting with :: Whitehead Symposium, "Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day."
discussion by :: Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, and Richard Rorty

location :: stanford humanities center

Notes and summary in archaeolog

05.05.06

discussion of :: "Phenomenologies of Trauma: Being There and Not" (Sebastian)
discussion of :: "Media and the reverse arrow of time" (Chris)
discussion leaders :: Chris Witmore and Sebastian De Vivo

Notes and discussion board in Phenomenologies of Trauma :: Media and the reverse arrow of time

05.19.06

discussion of :: "Organizational Structures and Popular Cultures"
discussion leaders :: Ralph Maurer and Matteo Bittanti

Notes and discussion board in Organizational Structures and Popular Cultures and From Gunplay to GunPorn: A Technovisual History of the First-person Shooter

06.02.06

creation of :: "A Critical New Media Manifesto"
discussion leaders :: members of CSNM

Notes and discussion board in A Critical New Media Manifesto

Winter Quarter 2006

1.13.06

discussion of :: CTRL (SPACE) by Levin et al.
discussion leader :: Chris Witmore

Notes and discussion board in CTRL (SPACE)

02.03.06

discussion of :: "Synthetic Worlds" by Edward Castronova
discussion leader :: Henry Lowood

Notes and discussion board in Synthetic Worlds

02.10.06

discussion of :: "Art Worlds" by Howard Becker
discussion leader :: Sebastian De Vivo

Notes and discussion board in Art Worlds

02.24.06

discussion of :: "Branded Nation" by James Twitchell
discussion leader :: Ashish Chadha

Notes and discussion board in Branded Nation

03.05.06

discussion of :: Research Symposium I
workshop participants

location :: tbd

03.10.06

discussion of :: "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian" by Mizuko Ito
discussion leader :: Matteo Bittanti

Notes and discussion board in Personal, Portable, Pedestrian

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Fall Quarter 2005

10.28.05

discussion of :: ''Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences."
guest :: Geoffrey Bowker
discussion leaders :: Leila Takayama and Erica Robles

Notes and discussion board in Sorting Things Out

11.18.05

discussion of :: "Liveness" by Philip Auslander
discussion leader :: Seeta Gangadharan

Notes and discussion board in Liveness

12.02.05

discussion of :: "The Vatican to Vegas" by Norman Klein
discussion leader :: Henrik Bennetsen

Notes and discussion board in The Vatican to Vegas

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Spring Quarter 2005

03.08.05

presenter :: Matt Adams of Blast Theory
subject :: work with Blast Theory

Notes and discussion board in Blast Theory

04.01.05

presenter :: Nick Yee, Stanford University, communication department
subject :: Research on Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)

Notes and discussion board in Nick Yee

05.19.05

presenter :: Arthur van Hoff, new media entrepeneur
subject :: experiences in software design and consumer media

Notes and discussion board in Arthur van Hoff

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Winter Quarter 2005

01.19.05

presenters :: Michael Shanks and Christopher Witmore
subject :: Media| Archaeology: nine paths to posthuman mediation

Notes and discussion board in Media Archaeology

02.23.05

presenter :: Timothy Webmoor, stanford university, casa and archaeology, MetaMedia Labs
subject :: Social Software, Science Studies and Mediating Archaeology

Notes and discussion board in Technoscience and Archaeology

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Fall Quarter 2004

10.14.04

October 14 in Wallenberg Hall, rm. 120 at 6 PM
First meeting // Organizational Dinner

Read about the first meeting.

10.27.04

presenter :: Abram Stern
subject :: Net Art

Notes and discussion board in Net Art

11.10.04

presenter :: Mike Pearson
subject :: Multi-sited performance

Notes and discussion board in Multi-Sited Performance

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Spring Quarter 2004

04.21.04

presenter :: Anne Balsamo
subject :: "Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination"

04.28.04

presenter :: Katherine Isbister and Rainey Strauss
subject :: The SimsGallery Project

Notes and discussion board in The SimsGallery Project

05.05.04

presenter :: Sha Xin Wei
subject :: "Shaping Art Practice as a Mode of Research: TGarden and Responsive Media"

Notes and discussion board in Shaping Art Practice

05.19.04

presenter :: Jane McGonigal
subject :: "Site-specific Superheroes: pervasive play, urban superhero games, smart mobs and other forms of internet-guided offline recreation"

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Winter Quarter 2004

02.05.04

presenter :: Panel Discussion
subject :: "Bang the Machine: Computer Gaming Art and Artifacts"

Location :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room, SF

02.06.04

presenter :: Conference
subject :: "Story Engines: A Public Program on Storytelling & Computer Games"

Location :: Fairchild Auditorium, Stanford

02.11.04

presenter :: Chris Witmore
subject :: "On peripatetic video: experiments in the corporeality of place"

Notes and discussion board in Peripatetic Video

02.26.04

presenter :: Warren Sack
subject :: "Information visualization and semantic networks in democracy"

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Fall Quarter 2003

10.08.03

October 8 in Wallenberg Hall, rm. 127 at 6 PM
First meeting // Organizational Dinner

10.15.03

presenter :: Michael Shanks and Joe Adler
subject :: "The Language of New Media" by Lev Manovich

10.29.03

presenter :: John Kim
subject :: "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud

Notes and discussion board in Understanding Comics

11.12.03

presenter :: Scott Bukatman and Casey Alt
subject :: "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud

Notes and discussion board in Understanding Comics II

12.03.03

presenter :: Nick Kaye, chair of drama and performance, manchester university
subject :: Video Art

Notes and discussion board in Video Art

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