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The Stanford Humanities Lab is a Center for Transdiciplinary/Post-Disciplinary Study. We discover fascinating futures to be explored in ignoring and crossing disciplinary borders.

SHL believes that some crucial questions — about what it is to be human, about experience in a connected world, about the boundaries of culture and nature — transcend old divisions between the arts, sciences and humanities; between the academy, industry and the cultural sphere.

We engage in experimental projects with a "laboratory" ethos — collaborative, co-creative, team-based — involving a triangulation of arts practice, commentary/critique, and outreach, merging research, pedagogy, publication and practice. Beyond commentary and discussion, we build: new media, interactive archives, predictive models of social change, collaborative research workshops, art exhibitions.

The SHL agenda encompasses

• animating archives - regenerating, bringing to life, and fostering new modes of interaction with the storehouses of human, cultural, artistic, scientific achievement - our focus is on the question of the relationship of the human past to efforts at conservation and preservation
 
• building bigger pictures - putting specialized in-depth research into the context of big human questions; questions, for example, of rapid social change and innovation, the ethical implications of information technology, the character of distributed digital communities, the politics of digital citizenship, the past, present, and future of intellectual property
 
• enabling co-creative collaboration - developing successful models of teamwork, learner-centered models of training (thinking through doing), and collaborative authoring tools and processes
 
• building bridges - establishing innovative partnerships between industry, museums, foundations, and high-level university-based research

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Cyberintimacies: technology and human identity. A lecture by Sherry Turkle

Thursday, November 16, 2006
4:00 p.m.
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center

In this second lecture of the 2006-07 New Directions in Humanities Research series Entering the Stream, psychologist Sherry Turkle presents her recent work on technology and human identity.

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her book, Evocative Objects: Things we think with, is scheduled to be published in April 2007. She is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the human spirit (MIT Press, 2005) and Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the internet (Touchstone, 1997).

The New Directions in Humanities Research Lecture Series presented by the Stanford Humanities Center.

posted by Jeff Aldrich at 3:45 PM

Regenerative Presence, Remixing the Archives of Lynn Hershman Leeson

On November 30th, the Stanford Humanities Lab in collaboration with artist Lynn Hershman will present work from the ongoing Life to the Second Power (L2) research project. This project will re-animate the existing archive of Lynn Hershman, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Converting the archive into a digital format of hybrid genre will allow users of the content to dynamically revisit the past while simultaneously expanding the audience for this material. Specifically this means building a living archive of Hershman's work inside the 3D online world Second Life.

Lynn Hershman will give a tour of L2's work in Second Life. Her voice will be streamed live via the web. The presentation can be experienced from multiple viewpoints. You can create a free account and logon to Second Life or you can observe in a number of designated public locations. The event will be documented as it happens and later made available online.

posted by Jeff Aldrich at 12:20 PM