Digital Technology and Culture

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Collision

We are back from Collision, the conference in Victoria, Canada. I will be writing a review of it for Leonardo Digital Review, but for those of you interested, I will mention that a couple of the highlights were Kirby Malone's (AVT, George Mason University) presentation on "Live Movies," his project with Gail Scott White that mixes live performance with digital technologies. Stunning work. Ben Evans' (Alberta College of Art and Design)paper, entitled "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Interdisciplinarity," did a great job pointing out some of the problems we face when calling a course, project, or program "interdisciplinary." Lucy Pullen's (UVic) artist talk about her practice provoked a lot of discussion––some of it quite passionate––from audience members who wanted her to take the discussion to interpretation.

On Wednesday night of the conference, Steve Gibson hosted a dinner at his house for friends. Artist Randy Adams, formerly of the trAce Online Writing Centre and a frequent collaborator of Steve's, was in town from Naianmo. Allen Bell, professor of English and screenwriter ("The Sweet Hereafter") was present and brought some faculty friends from Cambridge. Justin Love, who does quite a bit of programming for Steve and Steve's collaborator on various projects, also showed up––with a recent batch of his homemade beer.

Both Steve and Justin will be at WSUV from November 9-13 to help me calibrate the lab. I have invited them to perform their new work, Channel 10, for us while they are here. We are looking at holding the event on Saturday night.

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