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lists. Apologies for any duplication
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
NOTE to SL attendees:
Please rsvp to Esther Grassian [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:
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Skype:
esthergrassian
SL:
Alexandria Knight
There:
Sefer