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Act/React at Milwaukee Art Museum

New Median — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:28:42 +0000

Act/React: Interactive Installation Art

October 4–January 11, 2009
Baker/Rowland Exhibition GalleriesThe Museum is hosting, exclusively, the first extensive exhibition in an art museum of intuitive, digitally developed interactive art. Imagine entering the galleries and your movements trigger “brushstrokes” to create painterly patterns on the wall, colorful forms to reconfigure in your wake, or sounds to emit from seemingly inanimate objects. Step inside and experience these extraordinary immersive environments by six pioneers of responsive art.
“Interactive cinema” and other projects involving computer keyboards and similar mechanical interfaces have been explored throughout the history of installation art. This exhibition presents a sampling of what is a growing body of artwork, where the interactivity involved is non-technical and performed with the entire body of the viewer. These ten installations invite you to move through space, to explore how your motions affect the images, lights, or sounds around you. Go ahead—ACT on your curiosity.

Zach Cahill: “The Best Laid Plans” online

New Median — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:47:47 +0000

If you missed Zachary Cahill’s recent show, you can now view his work at his website: www.zacharycahill.com

Zach Cahill: “The Best Laid Plans”

New Median — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:30:03 +0000

The Project for the New American Century Presents:

Zach Cahill (MFA 2007)

“The Best Laid Plans”–Recent Works

Where: DOVA Temporary 5228 S. Harper Ave

When: July 25 thru August 9, 2008

Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm

Opening Reception: July 25, 6-9pm

More: zacharycahill.com

2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science (DHCS)

New Median — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:23:17 +0000

Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)

DHCS Colloquium, November 1st – 3rd, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008

The goal of the annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In 2006, the first DHCS Colloquium examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the “million books” digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies.

The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense” – an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog. We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer Science.

Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computation Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Location:

The University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Click here for more.

Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara)

New Median — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:15:47 +0000

The New Media Workshop

presents

Professor Alan Liu (Department of English, UC Santa Barbara),

on The Agrippa Process: ‘Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)’ in the Age of Web 2.0

Jim Hodge (Ph.D. Student, Department of English, U of C), will respond.

As background reading on Professor Liu’s work, participants are encouraged to read his article “Transcendental Data: Towards a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse,” attached here.

Date: Monday, May 19, 2008

Place: Cobb 310

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Refreshments will be served.

If in need of assistance, please contact Lisa Zaher in advance.

W. J. T. Mitchell on The Future of the Image

New Median — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:09:09 +0000

On April 23, 2008, W. J. T. Mitchell and Jacques Rancière discussed the Future of the Image at Columbia University.

For an overview of the event, from the Blog Site Page 291, click here.

Friday, May 2, 2008

New Median — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:24:56 +0000

Please join the New Media Workshop for a presentation by

Zach Cahill, MFA ‘07 (U of C)

The Project for the New American Century:

Diagrams, Vanishing Mediators and the Principle of In-existence

Date: Friday, May 2, 2008

Place: CWAC 156

Time: 10:30-12:30

In preparation for this meeting, please consult the following texts/sites:

The Project for the New American Century

Excerpt from Badiou’s Being and Event

Badiou on the Inexistent

April 25-26, 2008

New Median — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:11:01 +0000

Friday, April 18, 2008

New Median — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:13:55 +0000

Please join the New Media Workshop for its extended discussion of the works of Jacques Rancière,

with critical responses by:

W. J. T. Mitchell, Zach Cahill (DOVA, MFA ‘07), Kris Cohen (Art History), and Jim Hodge (English). Moderated by Michelle Menzies (English).

Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
Time: 3:30 – 5:30pm
Location: CWAC 156

For this meeting, we will be focussing on The Future of the Image. Several copies of the book are still available at the Co-op Bookstore.

Persons in need of assistance, please contact Lisa Zaher in advance.

Monday, March 10, 2008

New Median — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:03:39 +0000

The New Media Workshop

proudly presents:

Adam Hart, (Ph.D. Student, Committee for Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago),

“Fear of Space: The Slasher Film and Postmodern Anxiety”

Date: Monday, March 10, 2008

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Location: Cobb 310

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Refreshments will be served.

Persons with a disability, who believe they may need assistance, please email Lisa Zaher in advance at lmz@uchicago.edu.