2013

From Apple BASIC to Hypercard: Translating bpNichol in the Media Archaelogy Lab

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 20:57:02 +0000

From Apple BASIC to Hypercard: Translating bpNichol in the Media Archaelogy Lab Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 12/01/2013 - 13:57

Hi everyone, a reminder…

I’d like to invite you all to Dr. Lori Emerson’s talk this Monday, Dec 2, from 11:30-12:30.

The talk will take place at the Media Archaeology Lab, 1320 Grandview Ave:

Talks are open to everyone — bring your friends.

If you haven’t seen the lab yet, please come check it out — it’s amazing — and truly one of a kind in the world.

Feel free to drop by at anytime during the hour. The talk is part of a lecture series I’m organizing — normally the talks take place at the Brakhage Center for the Media Arts. You can read all about it on the BC blog: http://brakhagecenter.com/?cat=32

Email me if you have questions. (info@melhogan.com)

See you Monday!

Mél Hogan

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Co-sponsored by: Media Archaeology Lab mediaarchaeologylab@gmail.com

The Brakhage Center for the Media Arts presents

From Apple BASIC to Hypercard: Translating bpNichol in the Media Archaelogy Lab A Talk and Workshop with Dr. Lori Emerson 11:30 am, December 2, 2013 Media Archaeology Lab, 1320 Grandview Ave. �鶹ӰԺ, CO

Dr. Emerson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at �鶹ӰԺ and Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. She writes on and teaches digital literature, experimental American and Canadian writing from the 20th and 21st century, history of computing, and media theory.

She is the author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2014). She also co-edited three collections: The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, with Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin Robertson (forthcoming 2014); Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell, with Derek Beaulieu (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2013); and The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol Reader, with Darren Wershler (Coach House Books 2007).

Dr. Emerson’s will discuss her work in the Media Archaeology Lab and demo hardware and software housed in the lab, such as an early work of digital literature on an Apple IIe and a later “translation” of that same work into Hypercard on a Macintosh Powerbook 160. After her talk, visitors will be welcome to explore the lab’s collection further under the guidance of Dr. Emerson.

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BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Matt Soar March 3rd, 2014

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:16:57 +0000

BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Matt Soar March 3rd, 2014 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/29/2013 - 15:16

As part of our annual luncheon media arts lecture series at the BC, we are happy to confirm Matt Soar for March 3, 2014. Soar is an intermedia artist, designer, and filmmaker, and associate professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is co-developer of the Korsakow System, an open source software application for interactive, nonlinear storytelling. His most recent Korsakow film, Ceci N’est Pas Embres (2012), a ‘database diary’ reflecting on life in a small French village, was recently selected for RIDM – the Montreal International Documentary Festival. Soar’s eclectic writing has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies, Jump Cut, Body & Society, and Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design. He has contributed to the forthcoming anthologies Dynamic Fair Dealing (University of Toronto Press) and New Documentary Ecologies (Palgrave). Soar also collects old signs and is an aspiring voiceover artist.

March 3rd, 2014 — Matt Soar

Lost Leaders: Exploring the metadata of film

My current research-creation project explores the meanings of commercial film leaders: the ‘hidden’ footage at the beginning of a film reel, littered with all kinds of esoteric markings: logos, lab notes, handwriting and type, color tests, projection cues – often taking up only one or two frames each. Leaders are doubly ‘lost’ due to their routine invisibility from the audience, and their impending obsolescence. Working with a sound artist (Jackie Gallant) and a variety of tools – a lightbox and a macro lens, a DSLR video camera attached to a high-powered microscope, interactive narrative software – Lost Leaders aims to be an extended poetic engagement with the metadata of film; the graphical residue of film processing, printing, and projection.

Matt Soar will be speaking from 11:30am to 12:30pm, in the ATLAS building, room 311.

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BC Luncheon Series: Andrea Zeffiro Nov. 4th

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:11:28 +0000

BC Luncheon Series: Andrea Zeffiro Nov. 4th Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/29/2013 - 15:11

As part of our annual lunchtime media arts lecture series at the BC, we are happy to confirm Andrea Zeffiro for November 4th, 2013. Zeffiro is a researcher and writer whose work intersects the cultural politics and practices of emerging technologies, contemporary media histories, feminist media studies, and multidisciplinary research methods. Over the last 10 years, Zeffiro has worked as an ethnographer within a number of transdisciplinary research formations alongside artists, designers, social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, and medical doctors. She holds a Doctorate in Communication Studies from Concordia University, and from 2011-2012, she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology, Simon Fraser University. Prior to her academic pursuits, Zeffiro spent a number of years drafting and implementing garment-purchasing policies for the public sector while channeling her creative energies towards AMBUSH: a line of clothing designed and created from second hand garments.

Locative Praxis
My talk will focus on mobile artivist practices, specifically the manner in which artists have adopted mobile communication devices as tools not only for interaction, but also reaction, that is, as instruments to facilitate political and cultural dissent. I will use the occasion to workshop what I have termed ‘locative praxis’: a conceptual framework that articulates a politicized dimension of experimental and location-based media production through which the dialectic of practice and reflection, at the intersection of social action and intent, can further an understanding of the spatial and socio-political dimensions of a space/place.

Andrea Zeffiro will be speaking from 11:30am to 12:30pm, in the ATLAS building, room 311.

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Mark your calendar!

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:18:38 +0000

Mark your calendar! Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/27/2013 - 15:18

Mark your calendar!

MEDIA ARTS WORKSHOP & LECTURE SERIES

Brakhage Center for the Media Arts

Free! Everyone is welcome! Bring your lunch!

I would like to invite you all to attend and participate in the Brakhage Center for the media arts lunchtime workshop & lecture series, done in collaboration with the Media Archaeology Lab.

Presentations take place from 11:30am to 12:30pm, in the ATLAS building, room 311, on the first Monday of each month, from October 2013 to March 2014.

Speakers in this series include multimedia artist Eric A. Meyer (Oct 7th), cultural theorist, Dr. Andrea Zeffiro (Nov 4th), MAL Director, Dr. Lori Emerson (Dec 2nd), artist and designer, Joel E. Swanson (Feb 3rd), and intermedia artist, designer, and filmmaker, Dr. Matt Soar (March 3rd).

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October 7th, 2013

Room 311, ATLAS

CU �鶹ӰԺ, CO

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Presenting Eric A. Meyer:

As the first speaker of our annual lunchtime media arts lecture series at the BC, I am happy to confirm Eric A. Meyer, a multimedia artist. Meyer is a co-founder, designer, and web developer at OddBird; a poet & musician with Teacup Gorilla; a writer, director, and producer for Vicious Trap; an open-source advocate; and a member of Denver Poets’ Theatre. Formerly Artistic Director of New World Arts, and Technical Director for The LIDA Project, his work has also appeared (or is imminent) in Exit Strata PRINT!, SpringGun Journal, the PackingHouse Center for the Arts, EOAGH Journal, and scattered across the internet.

His talk:

No One Wants Your Media Arts

Artist, audience, and academy have vastly different priorities. Unfortunately, the audience never shows up for a Media Arts conference or Lunchtime Series. Who’s looking out for the audience? What can we learn about audience from game designers, web developers, user interface experts, and the technologies they use? How might new media & experimental practice actually help us expand our reach, with art that is more exciting for everyone involved? Why are we even here?

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You can keep up with all the events on our blog, at brakhagecenter.com or follow us on Twitter @BrakhageCenter, or me, the organizer @mel_hogan. Tweet me if you plan to attend!

Please forward this to all others interested, and circulate freely to other lists and throughout your networks and communities.

Email me if you have questions.

Bring your laptops, or just come and listen and discuss!

Looking forward to seeing you in October,

Mél Hogan

Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Curation

Armory 1B24, JMC, CU �鶹ӰԺ

@mel_hogan @BrakhageCenter @MediaArchaeology

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BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Joel Swanson February 4th, 2014

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:21:30 +0000

BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Joel Swanson February 4th, 2014 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2013 - 15:21

As part of our annual luncheon media arts lecture series at the BC, we are happy to confirm Joel Swanson for February 4th, 2014. Swanson is an artist, designer and writer who currently serves as the Director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado, �鶹ӰԺ. He teaches classes on digital art, media theory, and the history of design. He received his Masters of Fine Art at the University of California, San Diego with a specialty in Computing and the Arts.

Literary and linguistic theory inform and motivate his work, which ranges from sculpture to interactive installation. Thematically his work explores the nature of language, its materiality, and its modes of signification within physical and virtual forms. Specifically, he revisits the questions posed by many of the Conceptual language artists of the 1960’s and 1970’s, but in light of contemporary digital technologies.

His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery of Toronto, the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art and the Orange Country Museum of Contemporary Art.

Joel will be discussing his new body of work, currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (http://mcadenver.org). This work explores the relationship between language and representation, specifically in light of digital media.

Joel Swanson will speak from 11:30am to 12:30pm, in the ATLAS building, room 311.

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BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Eric Meyer October 7th

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:22:39 +0000

BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Eric Meyer October 7th Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 08/10/2013 - 15:22

As part of our annual lunchtime media arts lecture series at the BC, we are happy to confirm Eric Meyer, a multimedia artist. He’s a co-founder, designer, and web developer at OddBird; a poet & musician with Teacup Gorilla; a writer, director, and producer for Vicious Trap; an open-source advocate; and a member of Denver Poets’ Theatre. Formerly Artistic Director of New World Arts, and Technical Director for The LIDA Project, his work has also appeared (or is imminent) in Exit Strata PRINT!, SpringGun Journal, the PackingHouse Center for the Arts, EOAGH Journal, and scattered across the internet.

October 7th, 2013 — Eric Meyer

No One Wants Your Media Arts

Artist, audience, and academy have vastly different priorities. Unfortunately, the audience never shows up for a Media Arts conference or Luncheon Series. Who’s looking out for the audience? What can we learn about audience from game designers, web developers, user interface experts, and the technologies they use? How might new media & experimental practice actually help us expand our reach, with art that is more exciting for everyone involved? Why are we even here?

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BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Lori Emerson December 2nd

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:25:05 +0000

BC Luncheon Series Welcomes Lori Emerson December 2nd Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 07/20/2013 - 15:25

As part of our annual lunchtime media arts lecture series at the BC, we are happy to confirm Lori Emerson, assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at �鶹ӰԺ, for our December 2, 2013, presentation.

Lori Emerson – December 2, 2013

“From Apple BASIC to Hypercard: Translating Translating bpNichol in the Media Archaeology Lab”

Emerson will discuss her work in the Media Archaeology Lab and will demo hardware and software housed in the lab, such as an early work of digital literature on an Apple IIe and a later “translation” of that same work into Hypercard on a Macintosh Powerbook 160.

Lori Emerson will speak from 11:30am to 12:30pm, at the Media Archaeology Lab, 1320 Grandview Ave. �鶹ӰԺ, CO.

Following the talk, visitors will be able to explore the collection at the Media Archaeology Lab.

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Fall 2013 Media Arts Luncheon Series

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:26:21 +0000

Fall 2013 Media Arts Luncheon Series Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:26

The Fall 2013 Media Arts Luncheon Series will feature Eric Meyer (Oct), Andrea Zeffiro (Nov), Lori Emerson (Dec), Joel Swanson (Feb) and Matt Soar (March).

This series is done in collaboration with the Media Archaeology Lab.

October 7th, 2013 — Eric Meyer

Eric A. Meyer is a multimedia artist. He’s a co-founder, designer, and web developer at OddBird; a poet & musician with Teacup Gorilla; a writer, director, and producer for Vicious Trap; an open-source advocate; and a member of Denver Poets’ Theatre. Formerly Artistic Director of New World Arts, and Technical Director for The LIDA Project, his work has also appeared (or is imminent) in Exit Strata PRINT!, SpringGun Journal, the PackingHouse Center for the Arts, EOAGH Journal, and scattered across the internet.

November 4th, 2013 — Andrea Zeffiro

Andrea Zeffiro is a researcher and writer whose work intersects the cultural politics and practices of emerging technologies, contemporary media histories, feminist media studies, and multidisciplinary research methods. Over the last 10 years, Zeffiro has worked as an ethnographer within a number of transdisciplinary research formations alongside artists, designers, social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, and medical doctors. She holds a Doctorate in Communication Studies from Concordia University, and from 2011-2012, she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology, Simon Fraser University. Prior to her academic pursuits, Zeffiro spent a number of years drafting and implementing garment-purchasing policies for the public sector while channeling her creative energies towards AMBUSH: a line of clothing designed and created from second hand garments.

December 2nd, 2013 — Lori Emerson

Lori Emerson is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at �鶹ӰԺ. She works on experimental writing from the 20th and 21st century, history of computing, and media theory. In addition to directing the Media Archaeology Lab, Emerson is the author of _Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound_ (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2014) and co-editor of both _The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media_, with Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin Robertson (forthcoming 2014) and _Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell_, with Derek Beaulieu (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2013).

February 3rd, 2013 — Joel E. Swanson

Joel Swanson is an artist, designer and writer who currently serves as the Director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado, �鶹ӰԺ. He teaches classes on digital art, media theory, and the history of design. He received his Masters of Fine Art at the University of California, San Diego with a specialty in Computing and the Arts.

March 3rd, 2013 — Matt Soar

Matt Soar is an intermedia artist, designer, and filmmaker, and associate professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is co-developer of the Korsakow System, an opensource software application for interactive, nonlinear storytelling. His most recent Korsakow film, Ceci N’est Pas Embres (2012), a ‘database diary’ reflecting on life in a small French village, was recently selected for RIDM – the Montreal International Documentary Festival. Soar’s eclectic writing has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies, Jump Cut, Body & Society, and Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design. He has contributed to the forthcoming anthologies Dynamic Fair Dealing (University of Toronto Press) and New Documentary Ecologies (Palgrave). Soar also collects old signs and is an aspiring voiceover artist.

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HASTAC 2013: Korsakow as Curatorial Tool?

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:31:41 +0000

HASTAC 2013: Korsakow as Curatorial Tool? Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/29/2013 - 13:31

HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress

On Sunday, I presented on the use of Korsakow as a tool for digital curation as prototyped at the Brakhage Center for the Media Arts. Eric Coombs and I created an archive of the 2005 symposium as a means to test Korsakow for archival and curatorial ends. The HASTAC talk was an opportunity to exchange with other working with the software.

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HASTAC 2013 will bring together 5 keynote speakers, 150 refereed papers, panels and demos, a maker space, curated digital performances and over 200 attendees including established and emerging scholars, artists and authors, tech entrepreneurs and teachers, to explore alternative modes of creating, innovating, and critiquing that better address the interconnected, diverse, interactive global nature of knowledge today, both in the academy and beyond. Our scheduled sessions will deepen our understanding of the role of digital technologies and media and the changes in behaviour and ways of learning and working currently underway.

2013 marks the 10th anniversary of HASTAC’s founding. In that spirit HASTAC 2013 is showcasing work that is either reflective or prescient, that evaluates our digital histories and seeks to construct our digital future(s). We invited contributors to take this opportunity to look back, theorize and archive. We invited them to engage in the creative, if impossible, attempt to glimpse the digital future. We challenged them to shape it. And researchers from across Canada, the United States and Europe and from as far away as Australia are coming to Toronto to share how they and their teams, their research labs,
their classrooms and their students are building the technologies and subjects of the future right now or imagining new horizons of possibility for the ways in which we will make, teach, learn and find community in the coming decade(s).

Sunday April 29 10:30-11:45

Session 40:

“The Korsakow System: Database Filmmaking for the Web” Matt Soar, Midi Onodera, Mél Hogan (with the help of Eric Coombs), Florian Thalhofer.

More: http://melhogan.com/website/hastac-2013-korsakow-as-a-curatorial-tool/

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Nicole Robicheau presents ‘The Border Between Us’

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:38:32 +0000

Nicole Robicheau presents ‘The Border Between Us’ Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/13/2013 - 12:38

Nicole Robicheau will be presenting her work (via Skype) alongside M.E. Luka on Tuesday March 12th (time tbc). Please join us at the Brakhage Center (ATLAS 311).

Project Description: The Border Between Us is an interactive documentary about two border towns and twelve people. It’s set in Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, U.S.A. It looks at life in the two communities post-9/11.

Click to Run

What follows is an interview with Nicole about her documentary, conducted by Mél Hogan for the Korsakow blog on November 10, 2012:

What brought you to this border town: Stanstead and Derby Line?

Iwanted to do a project about borders. I’ve long been interested in how such an arbitrary demarcation can affect the lives of people who happen to find themselves on either side of it. Doing research on the Canada-U.S. border was a tangible way to examine a border that’s near me, and one that is going through drastic changes. I came across Derby Line and Stanstead in my research, and the unique character of the two towns, and I was immediately drawn in.

Tell me more about this idea of the border as an arbitrary demarcation…

I’ve crossed quite a few borders overland and I’m always struck by how these lines that delineate nation-states seem to be carved up without any regard to the life that surrounds it. And certainly many borders of current countries, if not all, were decided by people in places far removed from the actual line, just by looking at maps. It’s impossible to see lived experience by looking at maps. Not to mention the fact that usually people who decided these boundaries didn’t even have the right to do so in the first place. Yet very few of these lines are now being challenged.

You have a background in journalism. How has that influenced the way you’ve approached your topic?

Ithink in the beginning, I approached the story very much like a journalist would. In fact, I was working as a radio reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at the time, and I began by looking into its archives for contacts of people who had been interviewed and were somehow invested in all the changes that were happening along the border. What was different for me with this project though was that I was really interested in capturing the stories of everyday people living along that line. I was tired of having to interview experts, which I always had to do in my work as a journalist. With this project, I was actively militating against my journalism training, which usually had me interviewing people in positions of authority.

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Nicole Robicheau is a storyteller and media maker who primarily works and lives in Montreal. She has previously worked as a radio journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She also does aid work with the Canadian Red Cross and has also also worked with various organizations in Africa and in Europe on media development.

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