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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SHL puts on Metaverse Meetup
It is our pleasure to invite you to the first Metaverse Meetup on Thursday November 8 th at Stanford University. We want to bring together people from across industry and academia who share an interest in virtual worlds. As our first invited speaker we are thrilled to have Mike Liebhold from the Institute for the Future. His talk will be entitled: 3D data for real world virtual worlds. This will last for about 20 minutes with plenty of time for some good conversation afterwards. We are also having an open mic session, so if you want to pitch a project, find collaborators etc. then here is your chance. The basic idea is a pretty loose format with lots of time for networking built in. Here is the scoop on Mike:
Mike Liebhold is a Senior Researcher for the Institute for the Future, IFTF, focusing on the mobile and abundant computation, immersive media and geospatial web foundations for context-aware and ubiquitous computing. Previously, Mike has worked for an impressive array of companies including Intel Labs, Netscape Communications & Apple Computer. Here is the talk abstract: Abstract 3D data, maps, and software will change the way we compute and interact with spatial services. Moving beyond simple texture mapped terrain and boxes, new 3D mapping frameworks are rapidly evolving into platforms for real world virtual world media, interaction, commerce, and science. In this talk I'll review work of various groups who are building different components of a 3D Geoweb. I will first describe how their 3D data and software will work as a platform for a 3D real world virtual world, and then, what kinds of new applications and user experiences might be developed on these platforms, and then finish with a brief discussion of prospects and mechanisms for data interoperability allowing users to create, discover, use, and exchange 3D data across platforms. When: Thursday, November 8th 2007 from 6pm to 7:30pm Where: Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University
More practical stuff: - Feel very free to forward this email or blog about this.
- No need to RSVP but you can write me (Henrik Bennetsen - hbe@stanford.edu) if you have any questions.
- The next of these events will be on Thursday, November 29th and will feature Jamais Cascio talking about the Metaverse Roadmap .
We hope to see you there
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Autonomous Agents, A Real + Second Life Symposium
 In performance, installation, video and film, new media and technology, Lynn Hershman Leeson has explored identity, politics, surveillance and artificial intelligence, operating at the vanguard of artistic innovation. Autonomous Agents, A Real + Second Life Symposium considers Hershman Leeson's practice within live space, cinematic space, the buildings of museums and galleries and most recently, the virtual space of Second Life. In real life at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England: Saturday 24 November 2007, 5.00am-11.00am PST. On the same day, in Second Life: 7.30am-8.30am SLT. Contact susan.fletcher@manchester.ac.uk for Second Life location. This symposium is in collaboration with The Performing Presence Project. [Excerpted from a post to Rhizome by Gabriella Giannachi.]
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