*Sure wish I could go to this....
Nowcasting: Design Theory & the Digital Humanities
A Transdisciplinary Seminar hosted by UCLA’s Design Media Arts Department
The EDA @ the Broad Arts Center UCLA
October 16 & 17, 2009
design.ucla.edu/nowcasting
Nowcasting is the first conference to apply contemporary design theory to emerging issues in the digital humanities. Showcasing digital humanities projects at every level from Google mapping to supercomputing visualization, the Nowcasting seminar proposes that learning from communication design, interaction design, and industrial design will be vital to 21st century humanistic inquiry.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 2009
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00–12:00 Word & Image
"Designing Knowledge," Anne Burdick (Art Center College of Design) Chair, Media Design Program / Designer, electronic book review
"The Other Night Sky: Secret Satellites and 'Geographies' of Orbit,” Trevor Paglen (UC Berkeley) Department of Geography
“Makers of the 1960s: Quentin Fiore & Jerome Agel,” Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford) Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature / Co-director, Stanford Humanities Lab
“Diagramming Interpretation,” Johanna Drucker (UCLA) Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in Information Studies
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break / Demos
2:00-5:00 Motion & Interaction
“Saul Bass and Film History,” Jan-Christopher Horak (UCLA) Director, Film & Television Archive / Moving Image Archive Studies Program
“Sushi, Robots, Humans, and the Culture of Interactivity,” Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA) Design Media Arts / Co-Editor, UC Press Technoculture and the Arts Series
“Interactive Social Mapping,” Warren Sack (UCSC) Film & Digital Media and Digital Arts / New Media
“Cultural Analytics,” (UCSD ) Lev Manovich, Visual Arts Department / Director, Software Studies Initiative CALIT2
5:30-7:00 Reception
SATURDAY OCTOBER 17, 2009
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00 – 12:00 Message & Meaning
“Designs for the Humanities: Object, Method, Interface,” Julia Reinhardt Lupton (UCI) English and Comparative Literature / UCI Design Alliance
“ambient interface,” Benjamin H. Bratton (UCSD) Visual Arts Department / Director, Design Policy Program CALIT2
“Google Earth?,” Todd Presner (UCLA) Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies / Director, HyperCities: Berlin Los Angeles
“Unimodern Unimedia,” Peter Lunenfeld (UCLA) Design Media Arts / Director, MIT Press Mediawork Project
12:00-1:30 Lunch / Demos
1:30-4:00 Round Table Discussion
Respondent: Lorraine Wild (California Institute of the Arts) Graphic Design / Principal, Green Dragon Office
The Nowcasting Seminar is organized by Peter Lunenfeld, and sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (http://www.uchri.org/), and UCLA’s Design Media Arts department (http://design.ucla.edu/) and Digital Humanities and Media Study (http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu).
