!!10.13.04 -- First Meeting

1. Workshop thematics

Above is a diagram which maps the shared interest of partipants in attendance at the first meeting. (To those that weren't in attendance, we're happy to amend, change, renegotiate the structure, of course. Let us know.) We broke down the broad environment of new media into three areas/themes which we imagined to be interrelated in interesting and productive ways. A description of the areas/themes that each represent are discussed below.

These areas/themes can be used to figure out who might be interesting to invite to the workshops. A rotating scheme was suggested, where we invite a representative from each during the course of workshop.

Through the CSNM workshop we hope to develop hard ideas of and practices with new media at the intersection of these three broad areas/themes in a collaborative forum.

PRACTITIONERS

• artists
• public intellectuals
• those engaged in practice
• "they do cool things"

This area/theme encompasses the people, instruments, and projects involved in the articulation of knowledge, art, materials, etc. through applications of new media...

potential speakers: (some already invited) mike pearson, abram stern, fiona & jonna, rick prelinger

INDUSTRY

• design
• commerce
• corporations
• r&d

Industry refers to the arena of new media design, creation, modification, and discimination. CSNM hopes to bring together aspects of industry and content production...

potential speakers: (some already invited) will harvey, bmw design center, mike prellinger, stuart brand, paul rankin, mimi ito

CRITICAL

• cultural/social forces
• institutional analysis
• issues of power/control

Sociologists and cultural critics interested in the tensions behind new media...

potential speakers: (some already invited) isabelle stengers, bruno latour, brian massumi, steven meyer, paul edwards, geof bowker, leigh star, mark andrejevic, stefan helmreich, Anna Lee Saxenian - Dean of Berkeley's School of Information Management, Henry Jenkins - MIT's head of Comparative Media Studies

2. Workshop "deliverables": process, manifestation, synthesis How can we keep a record of ongoing discussions? How can we incorporate ideas, insights and developments into future workshop session?

The following were suggested:

• video: live and archived
• wiki // projectforum
• engage participants to post their own notes/ideas

3. To Do list

• enhance links with "distributed whitehead" group (Tim Lenoir, Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, Brian Massumi, Steven Meyer and others)
• invite new members (professors, students, industry types, artists)

Email the coordinators at: mshanks@stanford.edu, cwitmore@stanford.edu, fturner@stanford.edu, tlenoir@stanford.edu.
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