Stanford Humanities Lab: 3/30/08 - 4/6/08

Stanford Humanities Lab: 3/30/08 - 4/6/08


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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

Meltemi Editore releases Schermi Interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi

Schemi interattivi cover art

Schermi interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi (Interactive Screens. Cinema in Videogames) is a new collection of essays, edited by Matteo Bittanti, Research Associate at SHL, that explores the complex relationship between film and digital games. Published by Meltemi Editore, the book was originally conceived and written while Matteo was a Visiting Sholar at Stanford and it is part of How They Got Game: The History of Video Games and Interactive Simulations, an ongoing critical investigation of the history, role, and impact of games on society. Schermi interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi is the result of a collective effort. It features contributions from Stanford University's Henry Lowood and Galen Davis, who were joined by scholars from all over the world: Barry Atkins, Alexis Blanchet, David Bordwell, Luca Castiglioni, Mark Grimshaw, Rune Klevjer, Bernard Perron, Judd Ethan Ruggil, and Olli Sotamaa. The book, which is available in Italian for the time being, confirms SHL's dedication to critically delineate an evolving media landscape.

Schermi Interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi, edited by Matteo Bittanti, published by Meltemi Editore (Rome, 2008)
official site http://www.scherminterattivi.org/