Events – Digital Arts and Culture Program

Look Here! Satellite Landscapes

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:42:44 +0000

Wednesday, December 7
12:00-1:00 pm
51�� Digital Humanities Lab
2nd Floor, East Wing, Golda Meir Library

The 51�� Digital Humanities Lab hosts an informal discussion with Jenny Odell on her Satellite Landscapes project, with works created by capturing infrastructural elements from Google Earth, and The Bureau of Suspended Objects, an archive of discarded objects.

Bureau of Suspended Objects, Jenny Odell. From the artist’s .

This will also be the kick-off event for for the 51�� Libraries new Look Here! pilot project, in which selected artists will conduct research in the Libraries’ digital collection and other special collections to create new work.

Free and open to the public.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jenny Odell, Peripheral Landscapes

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Free and open to the public.

Jenny Odell will talk about projects involving infrastructure (waste, power, manufacturing, etc.) and her ongoing attempts to represent the places that are implicated in our everyday actions. She will also touch on her use of digital means to ultimately encourage a re-engagement with the physical world.

Satellite Landscapes, from the artist’s website. Photo: Scott Chernis

Jenny Odell��ɰ��ٱ��:

“I am a Bay Area native/captive. My work combines the mining of online imagery with writing and research, usually in an attempt to highlight the material nature of our modern networked existence. Because my practice involves collecting, tagging and cataloguing, I have often been compared to a natural scientist – specifically, a lepidopterist. My work has made its way into the Google Headquarters, Les Rencontres D’Arles, Arts Santa Monica, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, La Gaîté lyrique (Paris), the Lishui Photography Festival (China), the Made in NY Media Center, Apexart (NY), and East Wing (Dubai). It’s also turned up in TIME Magazine’s LightBox, The Atlantic, The Economist, WIRED, the NPR Picture Show, PBS News Hour, and a couple of Gestalten books. I teach internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford. I would spend 80% of my life in a library if I could.”

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Discussion: Computer Game Study at 51��

Mon, 02 May 2016 13:22:12 +0000

Everyone is welcome to participate in an informal discussion provided by the Serious Play group to be held at the . 2nd Floor East Wing, this Wednesday, May 4th, at 3:30pm.

Have you taken or taught a course involving games (digital and otherwise)? (Would you like to take such courses?) Are you doing research in this area?

Please join us for an informal discussion of teaching and research on games at 51��. Share your experiences, interests, and ideas about where this subject of study fits into digital humanities and the future of the academy.

Though we imagine a free-ranging exchange, here’s a question on which we might focus: Could (should?) there be a multi-disciplinary program in game studies at 51��?

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Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush

mtasman@uwm.edu — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:15:32 +0000

Natasha Schüll, M.I.T. Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush.

Slot machines, revamped by ever-more compelling technological innovations, have unseated traditional table games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Along the way, they have earned such nicknames as “electronic morphine” and the “crack cocaine of gambling.” Does problem machine gambling stem from inside the device, from inside the gambler, or from the interaction between the two? Drawing on fifteen years of research among game engineers and machine gamblers in Las Vegas, Natasha Schüll will take the audience “inside the machine” to explore how contemporary slot machines—their game algorithms, their cash access systems, their ergonomic design—facilitate gamblers’ escape into a trancelike state they call “the zone” in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Year of the Humanities, and the DH Lab.

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51�� Art & Design – Fall Exhibition

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:38:29 +0000

Fall BFA/BA Exhibition Reopens
Wednesday, January 27 – Thursday, February 4
(Arts Center Gallery – Gallery hours: Wed. & Thur. 10am-6:30pm, Sun. 1-5pm)

BFA Exhibition Participants:

Nathanial John Allar
Bianca Brandolino
Daniel Broderick
Madeline Chitwood
Rachel Clark
Danielle Dahl
Mark Glatzel
Clayton Haggarty
Jessie Hartman
David Kenneth Hohenstein
Kelley Karp
Shannon Kielpikowski
Erin Kaczkoski
Juniper Yun Kruser
Ryan Mahony
Mari Marks
Jacob Meer
Aspen Mitchell
Phillip Peterson
Lydia Ramoo
Lizzy Salvaggio
Corey Smith
Nick Smith
Jessica Thornbury
Kenny Yoo

BA Poster Session Participants:

Jay Blacks
Blanche C Brown
Cara Domkowski
Lauren Kirsch
Nate Lindemann
Jason Luu
Beulah Peters
Laura Talaska
DeAnna Washington

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