Open Source Sound, Image and Electronics at UCLA
On Friday and Saturday February 9 – 10, the UC Digital Arts Research Network is sponsoring an amazing symposium and series of workshops for open source users, advocates, and developers at the EDA, Broad Art Center at UCLA. The symposium includes a stellar lineup of speakers and workshops on Friday and Saturday, preceded by a talk by Nicolas Negroponte on Thursday February 8th. Complete schedule is here.
Friday Feb 9 Symposium:
Cory Doctorow – USC, Boing Boing
Greg Niemeyer – UC Berkeley
David Cuartielles – Arduino.cc, K3 Malmo
Beatriz da Costa – UC Irvine
Xavier Amatriain – UC Santa Barbara, MATi, CREATE
Michael Zbyszynski – UC Berkeley, CNMAT
Ben Fry – Processing.org, Carnegie Mellon
Robert Nideffer – UC Irvine
Saturday Feb 9 Workshops:
Processing – Ben Fry
Arduino – David Cuartielles
PD – August Black
Admission is free but registration is required
Free Culture meeting tonight
Today, Tuesday Jan 23rd at 7:00PM, USC’s Free Culture group is having its second semester kick off in the Annenberg School West Lobby (opposite Heritage Hall)! Come and find out how you can get involved with various Free Culture projects for the coming semester. Or just come for the FREE PIZZA. Either way you can’t lose!
Steve Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts & Practice in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth 2011), co-Editor of the interdisciplinary online journal Vectors and creator of the fair use advocacy site Critical Commons. A scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of media, culture and technology, his research interests include historiography, the theory and history of emerging technologies, documentary and experimental film and video, and interactive media design.