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SUMMARY:Imagining Social Identities Through Computing
DESCRIPTION:D. Fox Harrell\, Associate Professor of Digital Media\, MIT\nHosted By Noah Wardrip-Fruin \nD. Fox Harrell’s research explores the use of the computer as an expressive and cultural medium. As described in his recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression (MIT Press)\, through both building and analyzing systems\, he investigates how the computer can be used to express cultural meanings through data-structures and algorithms. In this talk\, focusing on cultural meanings of social identity\, Harrell explores how our identities are complicated by their intersection with computing technologies including social networking\, gaming\, virtual worlds and related media forms. Toward this end\, Harrell will discuss how data-structures and algorithms in popular videogames and social media implement not only persistent issues of class\, gender\, sex\, race\, and ethnicity\, but also dynamic construction of social categories\, discourse\, metaphorical thought\, body language\, fashion\, and more. He shall then present technologies developed in his research group\, the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory\, which offer more nuanced and expressive ways to computationally model identity-related phenomena such as social status\, marginalization\, and social stigma in digital media. \nBio: D. Fox Harrell\, Ph.D.\, is Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. He founded and directs the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab). Harrell holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California\, San Diego. In 2010\, he received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.” His recent book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression was published in 2013 by the MIT Press. He is a 2014-15 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/imagining-social-identities-through-computing-2/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141120T200000
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CREATED:20141117T180947Z
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SUMMARY:Cornel West: "Ferguson\, Racism\, and the Media"
DESCRIPTION:Engaging Education & Student Media Present (with the endorsement of A/BSA)… \nSpeaker Blowout: FERGUSON\, RACISM\, AND THE MEDIA \nKeynote Speaker: CORNEL WEST \nLimited tickets available. Free tickets available at Engaging Education and Student Media Center for pickup on Nov 17 & a8 with UC Santa Cruz ID.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cornel-west-ferguson-racism-and-the-media-2/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T203000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems\, photographer
DESCRIPTION:Photographer and video installation artist Carrie Mae Weems examines the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity\, class\, and culture in the United States. \nWeems will discuss her work and ideas\, drawing on three decades of artistic activity. The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant\, Weems has exhibited nationally and internationally over the course of her career. \nPresented by the Art Department\, Arts Division\, Digital Arts and New Media\, and Film and Digital Media. Cosponsored by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, the Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia\, and the Institute of the Arts & Sciences.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lecture-carrie-mae-weems-photographer-2/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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SUMMARY:“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
DESCRIPTION:Free and Open to the Public\nGeneral Admission Seating\, first come\, first served\nParking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4) \nSynopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn\,  whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them from the trenches to a young cellist\, who was waiting for him in Berlin.  She thought he was a genius and after WWI\, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany.  When she planned to leave him for a communist poet\, he built a perfect house for her\, entirely planned by him from the lakeview living room\, to the silverware and her evening gowns.  When the Nazis came to power\, they abandoned the house and left Germany forever.  Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wandered between continents\, between world wars\, between success and failure.  The buildings that Erich built around the world\, scattered as a trail of their journey\, have changed the history of architecture. \nAward-winning filmmaker and current Schusterman Visiting Artist\, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen\, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise’s relationship\, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art. \nWatch the Trailer \nPresented by The Arts Division and Film and Digital Media. Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, Arts Dean’s Arts Excellence Fund\, and Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mendelsohns-incessant-visions-screening-and-qa-with-director-duki-dror-2/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T190000
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SUMMARY:WILDNESS: Film Screening and Discussion with Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar
DESCRIPTION:Click on image to enlarge flyer.\nThe Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present: \nWILDNESS\na film by Wu Tsang \nScreening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar \nReception to follow screening and discussion\nABOUT THE FILM \nRooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife\, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter\, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical realist flourish\, the bar itself becomes a character\, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness\, which explodes into creativity and conflict. \nWhat does “safe space” mean\, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter\, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations. \nThe film will be screened in conjunction with Prof. Marcia Ochoa’s courses FMST 41 and Soc Doc 204\, and to foster campus dialogue on Transgender Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \nFeminist Studies wishes to make this program accessible to people with disabilities. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact Marti Stanton at (831) 459-3981. \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nWU TSANG is a filmmaker\, artist\, and performer based in Los Angeles. As a transgendered second-generation Chinese American\, he explores human stories at at the intersection of complex identities. He was named one of 2012’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. His first feature WILDNESS won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest 2012 [World Premiere: MoMA Documentary Fortnight (New York\, NY)\, SXSW (Austin\, TX)\, Hot Docs (Toronto\, Canada)\, SANFIC8 (Santiago\, Chile)]. WILDNESS was also featured with a companion multi-channel video installation called /GREEN ROOM at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. \nROYA RASTEGAR is a writer and curator living in Los Angeles. She received a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness\, from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Through the guidance of advisors Angela Y. Davis and B. Ruby Rich\, her scholarship traces the productive conflicts and coalitions that flourish within cultural spaces. She has curated within both film and art contexts. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2008-9\, a Director of the Santa Cruz Women of Color Film & Video Festival\, and has participated in the programming of a number of film festivals\, including the Sundance Film Festival and as a Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival from 2008-2011. She has served on the juries of Outfest and the Santiago Festival International de Cine. Rastegar is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA\, and writes about film and performance for various publications. Her current book project offers a critical study of American film festivals and the radical possibilities of film and new media curatorial practices. WILDNESS is her feature film writing debut.\nCosponsored by the Office for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Arts Division; the Office of Campus Life and Dean of Students; El Centro – Chicano Latino Resource Center; the Cantú Queer Center; Kresge College; the UC Presidential Chair in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wildness-film-screening-and-discussion-with-wu-tsang-and-roya-rastegar-3/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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SUMMARY:Jeff Hull: "Unlocking the Power of Play; Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm"
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Hull is engaged in a decade long metaphysical street battle against banality and routine. This takes the form of fictional cults with real world induction centers\, pirate radio broadcasts from rogue agencies\, bizarre team building exercises\, guerrilla masonry\, covert subterranean exploration\, sasquatch dance bombs\, and all manner of subterfuge. As the founder of Oaklandish and The Jejune Institute he has taken Situationism and Street Art in unseen new directions\, blowing minds and winning awards along the way. His talk will offer a glimpse into the future of storytelling. \nJeff Hull is the creative director of Nonchalance\, a San Francisco based Situational Design agency whose mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play. This is achieved this by means of interactive narrative\, game design\, augmented reality\, automated environments\, event production\, installation art\, spatial navigation and cultural curation. They are best known for their award winning independent projects The Jejune Institute and Oaklandish. \nHosted By the Center for Games and Playable Media
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jeff-hull-unlocking-the-power-of-play-immersive-narrative-in-the-civic-realm-3/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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SUMMARY:Peter Kenez: "The Coming of the Holocaust"
DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz\,  \nEmeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: \n \nPeter Kenez \nProfessor of History\,\nCo-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz \nA Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary\, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study of the Holocaust-a comparative study of the prerequisites for mass murder in countries occupied by the Nazis during the second world war. Professor Kenez is a founding faculty member of Stevenson College. \n— \nParking is available for $3.00 per car in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements\, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831. 459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-kenez-3/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110517T120000
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SUMMARY:John Davison: "What will the games business look like in 5 years?"
DESCRIPTION:John Davison\, VP of programming at CBS Interactive – GameSpot and Metacritic\, will look at the way the audience for games is changing\, and how the games industry is adjusting and adapting to new tastes\, technology\, and trends. \nJohn Davison is VP of programming at CBS Interactive for GameSpot and Metacritic. Davison comes to CBS’ gaming properties from IDG’s GamePro\, where he served as Executive Vice President of Content. Davison’s career in game journalism spans nearly 20 years and includes high-ranking positions at outlets including Electronic Gaming Monthly\, the Official PlayStation Magazine\, and What They Play\, a family-focused consumer site which he founded and later sold to IGN Entertainment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-davison-what-will-the-games-business-look-like-in-5-years-2/
LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110
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