[ April 18, 2008; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, Jonathan Harris (b. 1979) designs systems to explore and explain the human world. He has made projects about human emotion (wefeelfine.org), human desire (love-lines.org), modern mythology (universe.daylife.com), science (phylotaxis.com), news (tenbyten.org), anonymity (justcurio.us) and language (wordcount.org), and documented an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt (thewhalehunt.org). CONTINUE READING »

[ April 18, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Langdon C Crawford will talk about the physical interfaces (MIDI Airguitars) and software (Max/MSP). This technology was initially prototyped for the NIME class in the spring of 2006 and have been continually developed and employed in performance ever since. This presentation will include some review of pieces performed, lessons learned, and theories developed CONTINUE READING »