MITH is pleased to announce its spring 2007 Digital Dialogues schedule. In addition to presentations from fellows and various colleagues around campus, highlights include visits from Georgetown’s Randy Bass, the Center for History and New Media’s Dan Cohen (talking about Zotero), media scholar Lisa Gitelman (Catholic U.), digital artist and writer Jason Nelson, information designer Brad Paley (TextArc), and Kate Hayles (UCLA) and Kenneth Thibodeau (Director of Electronic Records, National Archives) as part of the MITH/ELO symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature.
Digital Dialogues resumes Tuesday of next week, February 6, at 12:30 with “Odd and Wondrous Creatures: Jason Nelson’s Traveling Digital Magicke Show.”
Uncontrollable Semantics, Hypnotizing Mascots, Between Treacherous Objects, This is How You Will Die, curious titles for odd digital magic works/poetics. Jason Nelson, Net Artist and Digital Arts Lecturer at Griffith University in Australia, will be showcasing his strange net artworks/new media poetics, as well as talking about the future of new media art on the web on the Maryland stop of his US art talk tour. Explore some of his artworks at: http://www.secrettechnology.com and then come along to the show.