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Crowds project seminar (by invitation): 11/4-5/2005.[Note: While participation in this event is by invitation only, if you would like to suggest additional invitees, please let us know as soon as possible.] |
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Information for participants.Location: Wallenberg Learning Theater, Wallenberg Hall, Bldg. 160, Stanford, for maps go to http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html. Wireless network access on site. Contact information: Laurie Richard (650-723-6130; lcr@stanford.edu) and Heather Farkas (650-283-6236; feather8@stanford.edu). Event format: please note that the event is a seminar, so there will be plenty of opportunity for open discussion between the ten-minute presentations. The entire event will be captured for streaming on the project website at http://crowds.stanford.edu/. Lobby displays: artists participating in the seminar have been invited to display or demo their work in the lobby area of Wallenberg Hall. Parking: parking in campus A and C lots is available for free on a first-come/first-served basis starting at 4 pm on Fridays and all day Saturday.Meals: lunch will be provided on Saturday. Revolutionary Tides: concurrent with the seminar is another of the outputs of the Stanford Humanities Lab Crowds project: a 4000 sq. foot exhibition entitled Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster, 1914-1989 at the Cantor Arts Center on the Stanford campus. Saturday’s lunch will take place at the Cantor Arts Center and include a brief visit to the show. Program (provisional).Friday, November 4, 2005 4:30-6:15 pm
• welcoming remarks; introduction to seminar, Jeffrey T. Schnapp
• opening keynote: James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds • open discussion Saturday, November 5, 2005 9:00 - 9:30 am: coffee and pastries, Wallenberg Hall lobby 9:30 - 11:00 am: morning session (moderator Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford)
• Peter Lyman (Economics, UC Berkeley)
• Ruben Gallo (Romance Languages, Princeton) • Paul DeMarinis (Art, Stanford) • Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: first afternoon session (moderator Haun Saussy, Yale)
• Mark Seltzer (English, UCLA)
• Peggy Phelan (Drama, Stanford) • Ken Goldberg (Engineering, UC Berkeley) • Silvia Lavin (Architecture, UCLA) 12:45 - 2:15 pm: lunch and visit to Revolutionary Tides exhibition 2:30 - 4:00 pm: second afternoon session (moderator Matthew Tiews, UC Berkeley)
• Kirsten Foot (Communications, U of Washington, Seattle)
• Zack Exley (Political organizer) • Robbie Conal (Guerrilla poster artist) • Michael Speaks (Architecture and urbanism, SCI-Arc and UCLA) 4:15 - 5:45 pm
• concluding keynote address: Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs
• concluding discussion |
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