CRCA announces a new series of bi-weekly presentations showcasing CRCA affiliated research projects.
The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) is an interdisciplinary Organized Research Unit of UCSD that facilitates the creation of vanguard culture through artistic, scholarly, and technological research. As the University of California’s oldest arts research center, CRCA celebrates its continuing legacy of almost 40 years of leading edge research by presenting a new series, the CRCA Exchange, in conjunction with Calit2 and the UCSD 50th Anniversary. CRCA Exchange showcases CRCA affiliated research projects, twice a month on Thursday evenings from 5pm-7pm. The current series will present 26 researchers on 13 evenings. We would like to invite you to the first event in the CRCA Exchange. Text Adventures featuring Yra van Dijk and Jeremy Douglass Thursday 9th December 2010, 5pm-7pm, followed by a reception Calit2 Auditorium, First Floor, Atkinson Hall UCSD Voigt Drive, La Jolla Yra van Dijk: e-literature Yra van Dijk is a scholar from the University of Amsterdam specializing in the poetics of Digital Literature. She is primarily concerned with the question of how we can apply literary theory in the analysis and interpretation of digital literary art. After talking briefly about the European research project on which she is collaborating, she will propose an ethical reading of Talking Cure (2002) by Noah Wardrip-Fruin. For more information about Yra’s work: http://elmcip.net/ For more information about Talking Cure:http://www.noahwf.com/talkingcure/index.html and http://vimeo.com/3210593 Jeremy Douglass introduces Get Lamp Get Lamp is a documentary film about text-based computer games. In the late 1970s, Adventure and Zork broke ground in the early computer game genre that is still being created today as "interactive fiction”. CRCA’s own video game scholar and postdoctoral researcher, Jeremy Douglass, who appears in the film, will introduce a screening with comments on connections to his research. For more information about Jeremy’s work: http://jeremydouglass.com/ For more information about Get Lamp: Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzOPVe7Usms and Film: http://www.getlamp.com/ For more information about CRCA : http://crca.ucsd.edu Please share this CRCA announcement with your networks to assist with informing more communities of current CRCA activities. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
