Brown Tuesday, MIT Thursday, Philly recap
Really, I’ll write about other things soon. But here’s another brief message about public appearances.
Philadelphia was great. When the folks at Temple asked me to talk for 90 minutes, and scheduled the event for 3 hours, I thought it sounded a little long. With interjected questions I actually talked longer than 90 minutes — and yet the enthusiastic audience kept it from feeling long at all. We talked for more than the three hours, with people coming back after a bathroom/beverage break, and only stopped because my ride needed to be somewhere else. They’ve got some energy in the air at Temple. (Hey, it looks like Scott Rettberg blogged the talk!)
I also enjoyed my time at UPenn. The audience, again, was very engaged — and, to my surprise, almost all came from the CS department. A great moment was when an English professor seemed skeptical about the inclusion of Borges in the NMR and a CS professor offered an impassioned pro-Borges commentary. It’s nice to see those stereotypes overturned.
Tuesday at Brown:
Reading New Media
A discussion with:
- fiction writer Robert Coover,
- computer scientist David Durand,
- artist & theorist Bill Seaman, and
- the editors of The New Media Reader
Tuesday, March 11, 6-7:30pm
Scholarly Technology Group
Graduate Center, Tower E, Ground Floor
92 Thayer Street between Charlesfield and Power
Thursday at MIT:
New Media: Can the Past Talk to the Future?
A Comparative Media Studies Colloquium
Glorianna Davenport and
the editors of The New Media Reader
Thursday, March 13, 5:00 pm
Room E52-175