I'm speaking on Friday, Feb 9 at UCLA's OPEN conference — free with registration. My talk's first thing in the morning, at 10:35. Also on the bill is Nicholas Negroponte, who'll give the opening keynote.
The UC Digital Arts Research Network (UC DARnet) is a transdisciplinary Multicampus Research Group of University of California faculty who utilize digital media for cultural and theoretical research and in their creative production. UC faculty established DARnet in 1997 to lay the foundation for a UC-wide program to facilitate collaborative research and teaching within a distributed digital arts and humanities community.
Culture is in the midst of an increasingly rapid shift to computer-mediated forms of creative production, distribution and communication. The role of digital media is fundamental to this shift.
Media Artists create a natural bridge across the traditional disciplinary divide between the humanities and the sciences. UC DARnet, provides an opportunity for critical engagement and conceptual dialogue between humanists, scientists, and those in the media arts.
