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You are invited to attend the May 2009 Mellon Seminar in Digital
Humanities: http://tinyurl.com/472nah
These Seminars are hosted by Todd Presner (Germanic Languages and
Comparative Literature, UCLA) and Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University,
Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor of Digital
Humanities, UCLA).
Topic: Animating the Archive and Digital World
Presenters: Lynn Hershman, Henrik Bennetsen and Jeffrey Schnapp
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009
Time: 2 pm - 5 pm SLT/PDT
Location:
Real Life (RL): UCLA Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences
Bldg.)
Second Life (SL): Entropia, the Digital Library Federation's SL
island-rsvp needed
Second Life basic accounts are free: http://secondlife.com
<http://secondlife.com/>
NOTE to SL attendees: Please rsvp to Esther Grassian
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> to reserve a
space and receive the SLURL (SL url), as well as instructions for
viewing the live video feed and adjusting the audio in SL.
The May 4th presentation will be devoted to the medium of virtual
worlds, with particular emphasis placed upon mixed reality approaches to
scholarship, collaboration, creation, cultural programming, and
archiving. The presentation will be divided into two parts, the first
devoted to the Lynn Hershman / Stanford Humanities Lab Life Squared
project; the second devoted to a broader conversation concerning virtual
worlds, with special emphasis on Sirikata, a new open source virtual
world platform being developed at Stanford the inaugural application of
which is SHL's Speed Limits project.
For more information, and for seminar readings, please visit
http://tinyurl.com/d9zjdb
Additional readings will be posted as they become available.
Best,
Esther
Esther Grassian
Information Literacy Librarian
UCLA College Library
Box 951450
L.A., CA 90095-1450
Phone: 310-206-4410
Fax: 310-206-9312
Email: [log in to unmask]
Skype: esthergrassian
SL: Alexandria Knight
There: Sefer
