2004

LISA JEVBRATT
Department of Art Studio & Media Arts and Technology
presents
DATA VISUALIZATION AND IDENTITY IN THE NON-INTENDED
Friday May 7th, 2004
@ Noon in the CTL
(Collaborative Technologies Laboratory)
Trailer 932, East of Davidson Library

Rita Raley is an Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches in the areas of the digital humanities and twentieth-century literature in an “international” or “global” context.

Miriam Metzger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Santa Barbara her research includes studies of the credibility of information in the new media environment, problems of online privacy and security, the impact of media on public opinion, and the theoretical and regulatory changes brought about by the development of new media technologies.

Professor Fabrikant's talk is premised on the notion that in recent years, cartographers and GIScientists have become involved in extending geographic concepts and cartographic design approaches to the depiction of non-geographic data archives.

This presentation provides potential users with a tour through the wealth and variety of images available, the search and presentation features of "Insight", a visual arts archive, and what other advances are in store in digital archiving.

In this talk, Dr. Mayer-Patel explores some of the barriers to media convergence and characterize when and why convergence can be successful and when and why convergence is likely to fail. In doing so, he articulates a new model for thinking about the future of multimedia which he calls "confederated media".

If a global humanity is emerging today by means of technological networks and their multiple correlates, the intelligence and agency exercised through such networks can seem to unsettle any number of categories and concepts that have long been taken to define both the "human" "subject" and the world of "objective" "nature."