LCC EVENTS
Winter 2008 Digital Media Demo Day
Location: the Skiles Classroom Building
We have many exciting demos to show off at this year's event, including extraordinary student and faculty projects in Interactive Narrative, Tangible Media, Experimental Games, Interactive Television, and Digital Film, as well as projects developed in the eTV Prototyping Group, the Synaesthetic Media Lab, the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab, the Adaptive Digital Media Lab, the Public Design Workshop, the Emergent Game Group, and the Digital World and Image Group.Refreshments will be served.
Please direct inquiries to Matthew McIntyre at (404) 385-7551 or at matthew.mcintyre@lcc.gatech.edu
Visitor RSVP: Winter 2008 Digital Media Demo Day
Information Session for Applicants to the Graduate Program in Digital Media
Location: Skiles 349
All prospective applicants to the Digital Media Masters or PhD programs are invited to an information session about the application process.To RSVP or for more information, please contact Matthew McIntyre at matthew.mcintyre@lcc.gatech.edu or 404-385-7551
Living Game Worlds IV: Interplay, December 1 -2, 2008
Location: Technology Square Research Building, 85 Fifth Street
Living Game Worlds IV will focus on networked play and engage dialogues on multiplayer games and virtual worlds, including online networked entertainment as well as pervasive, mobile and tangible gaming. The symposium will explore various aspects of networked play (historical, cultural, technological and design perspectives) as well as current and future trends such as user-created content and the rising use of virtual worlds in the workplace.Keynotes: Raph Koster, Christopher Klaus, plus a "Pioneers" panel featuring people who made it all possible: Richard Bartle, Brian Green, Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, and Pavel Curtis.
Confirmed sponsors:
Turner Broadcasting
Georgia Film, Video and Music Office
Living Game Worlds, a symposium presented by the Experimental Game Lab, the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and the GVU Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology, brings together luminaries from academia, industry and the arts to explore topics related to research, design and cultural practices of digital games.
For details and registration, visit Living Games World
For sponsorship info, contact celia.pearce@lcc.gatech.edu
LCC Colloquia: Research Into Teaching and Practice
Location: Tuesday, September 23, 11-12, Skiles 02
Two second-year Brittain Fellows, Karissa McCoy and Jurgen Grandt, will give brief presentations about their scholarship and the ways their work translates into the educational mission of our institution. See abstracts below.Doug Flamming (HTS) will be the respondent. Light refreshments will be available.
The purpose of this monthly event is to encourage dialogue between tenure-line LCC faculty and Brittain Fellows and foster intra- and interdepartmental communication and collegiality. In addition, this colloquium series showcases the scholarship and work LCC faculty do in our classes —— and the ways that scholarship benefits the Georgia Tech community.
Future sessions will feature informal papers by a Brittain Fellow and an LCC faculty member about individual research/teaching and a critical response by another faculty member. These sessions provide a relaxed, informal atmosphere to learn more about what our colleagues do.
Colloquia will be scheduled monthly throughout the academic year during LCC's "common hour" (Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 am – noon).
If you have questions about the colloquium, wish to participate or suggest a participant or topic, please contact Todd Reynolds at todd.reynolds@lcc.gatech.edu
Jurgen Grandt, Ph.D.
"Catching Up To William and Ellen Craft: Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and the American Slave Narrative in the College Composition Classroom"
This talk revisits my experiences teaching the Crafts' autobiography in my ENGL 1101 sections (special topic "Black Georgia"). My presentation explores the challenges and rewards, as well as the risks, inherent in teaching the Crafts' narrative in particular, and the genre in general, to a Freshman audience. In this context, I shall also address the ambiguous and ambivalent role science and technology have played in the black experience in the New World, and what lessons for our own pedagogical and critical practice we, as scholar-teachers, can learn from the Crafts.
Karissa McCoy, Ph.D.
Black Boxes and White Trash: The Challenges of Teaching and Reading Race in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina .
This talk will focus on the challenges of teaching students to be aware of the politics of representing race and class in literature. Whitehead's complex The Intuitionist, for example, owes much of that complexity to the fact that it draws motifs in African American cultural history that our students often know nothing about. So in teaching texts like these, minstrelsy, the relationship between slave narratives and literacy, the idea of uplift, and the practice of passing must be handled delicately.
Of course, this also entails the challenge of making whiteness visible to students, and I've found that one way is through the category of "white trash." A strategy of teaching Allison's _Bastard out of Carolina_ in conjunction with images and photos of coal-blackened miners to illustrate instances where whiteness is marked works well toward this end.
Kate Hayles Lecture Thursday, January 15, from 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: Neely Room of the Georgia Tech Library
The theme of the 2008-09 LCC Distinguished Speaker Series will be "Minds, Machines, and Media."N. Katherine Hayles is a Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University, with a joint appointment in ISIS, Information Science Information Studies She writes and teaches on the relation of science, technology and literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics won the René Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her book Writing Machines won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts completes the trilogy of Posthuman and Writing Machiness. Her new book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, surveys the field of electronic literature, offers theoretical frameworks for its interpretations, and explores connections between print and electronic narratives.
Henry Jenkins Lecture on Thursday, November 6
Location: 6:00-7:30 in the Clary Theater of the Student Success Center.
The theme of the 2008-09 LCC Distinguished Speaker Series is "Minds, Machines, and Media."Henry Jenkins, Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT, is one of the first scholars to seriously study the effects of audience participation in media culture. He is recognized as an expert in the influence of digital popular culture on behavior, especially political behavior in a participatory media age. His recent work addresses the concept of "Media Convergence", which he defines as a cultural process by which individuals combine different media sources to create new relationships between different media forms.
Mark Turner Lecture on Thursday, October 2
Location: 4:30-6 in the Clary Theater of the Student Success Center
The theme of the 2008-09 LCC Distinguished Speaker Series is "Minds, Machines, and Media."October 1-4: Mark Turner.
Mark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. His most recent book publication is an edited volume, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and The Riddle of Human Creativity, from Oxford University Press. His other books and articles include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics, Economics, Law, and Society (Oxford), The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (Oxford), Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (Princeton), and Death is the Mother of Beauty (Chicago). He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience and distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology. In 1996, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises.
Black Box Improv Festival
Location: Main Stage
DramaTech presents the 5th Annual Black Box Improv Festival, celebrating 20 years of improv comedy at GA Tech with Atlanta's largest improv comedy festival. This event brings together Atlanta's improv community with some of the country's best nationally touring acts. This year's festival features 13 shows, 37 performances and 150 comedians!Performances:Sep 24 2008 at 08:00 PM;Sep 25 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 25 2008 at 10:00 PM; Sep 26 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 26 2008 at 10:00 PM; Sep 27 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 27 2008 at 10:00 PM; Sep 28 2008 at 06:00 PM; Sep 28 2008 at 08:00 PM
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DramaTech Production of Jekyll and Hyde
Location: DramaTech
An epic battle between good and evil, Jekyll and Hyde tells a tale about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality go awry. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Dr. Henry Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde.Performances: Mar 27 2009 at 08:00 PM; Mar 28 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 01 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 02 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 03 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 04 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 08 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 09 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 10 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 11 2009 at 08:00 PM
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DramaTech Production of Deathtrap
Location: DramaTech
To make Sidney's writing slump even more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student in one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at play writing for review and advice. Clifford’s play, Deathtrap , is a two-act thriller so perfect in its construction that, as Sidney says, even a master playwright could not hurt it. Out of his desperate desire to once again be the toast of Broadway, Sidney, along with Myra, cook up an almost unthinkable scheme. They'll lure the Clifford to the Bruhl home, kill him, and market the sure-fire script as Sidney's own. But shortly after Clifford arrives, it's clear that things are not what they seem.Performances: Jun 26 2009 at 08:00 PM;Jun 27 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 01 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 02 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 03 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 08 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 09 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 10 2009 at 08:00 PM; Jul 11 2009 at 08:00 PM
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DramaTech Production of Acadia
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Set in a lush English manor, Arcadia is a play that revolves between the past and present, blending ideas and events of the past with the present in a completely seamless effort. As manor residents of the present day use old books and objects to reconstruct the events of the past, the past residents live out that history onstage and share the truth, mystery, and genius of their lives. Arcadia is a beautifully written play that offers intrigue and commonality, dark and light, intellectual and emotional.Performances: Nov 07 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 08 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 12 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 13 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 14 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 15 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 19 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 21 2008 at 08:00 PM; Nov 22 2008 at 08:00 PM
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VarietyTech / Let's Try This! Fall 2008
Location: DramaTech
Singing, dancing, acting, improv. These are the four ingredients to a spectacle of entertainment. Come and join us as VarietyTech and Let's Try This! perform their own special mix.Performances:Oct 16 2008 at 08:00 PM; Oct 17 2008 at 08:00 PM; Oct 18 2008 at 08:00 PM
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DramaTech Production of Keeping Up with the Joneses
Location: DramaTech
The funny and touching story of Calvin Jones, a 16-year-old biology expert, his would-be superhero brother, Alexander, a college dropout with an IQ on par with da Vinci, and their parents, ornithologist Maureen Allen Jones and the conflicted antihero Ellis Jones, a physicist at the Pentagon who apparently likes to tinker at home on the weekends. In a race against time, Alexander knows what’s wrong with the world and fully intends to fix it. Ellis believes he knows how to end “the arms race” and Maureen knows she’s making the right decision in quitting her job. Calvin is the only one who doesn’t have the answers. If he could only answer the question of why his fish are dying, he could keep up with the other Joneses. Keeping up with the Joneses has been nominated for four playwriting competitions, including the Mark Twain Award for best new comedy, and won the region IV Student Playwriting Award of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.Performances:Feb 13 2009 at 08:00 PM; Feb 14 2009 at 08:00 PM; Feb 18 2009 at 08:00 PM; Feb 19 2009 at 08:00 PM; Feb 20 2009 at 08:00 PM; Feb 21 2009 at 08:00 PM
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Murder Mystery Dinner Theater: High School Reunion
Location: DramaTech
For the past six years, DramaTech and the Student Center Programs Council have worked together to produce an annual Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. The Murder Mystery Dinner Theater is a fun filled night of mystery, comedy, and interactive theater in which the actors follow a scripted story line as they improv with the audience. It is a unique opportunity to for both actors and audience to take part in a show that is both fun and unpredictable. Everyone that walks in the door is part of the show and you will not always know who is acting and who is audience. The only predictable part of the night is that you'll have a great time.Oct 02 2008 at 07:00 PM
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Black Box Improv Festival - Under the Couch
Location: Under the Couch
DramaTech Theatre presents the Fifth Annual Black Box Improv Festival, celebrating 20 years of improv comedy at GA Tech with Atlanta's largest improv comedy festival. This event brings together Atlanta's sprawling improv community along with some of the country's best nationally touring acts to entertain audiences and educate the next generation of improvisers. This year's festival will features 13 shows, 37 performances and 150 comedians!Performances:
Sep 05 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 06 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 26 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 26 2008 at 10:00 PM; Sep 27 2008 at 08:00 PM; Sep 27 2008 at 10:00 PM
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Open Lecture by Science Fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson, Thursday, March 6, 4-6
Location: Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center
Come hear international award-winning science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson talk about representing abrupt climate change in science and science fiction. This event, which is hosted by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture as part of the LCC Speakers Series, is open to all Georgia Tech faculty and students as well as the general public. This lecture will last approximately one hour, with a reception to follow.Dwelling Machines Symposium in January 14, 2008
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This symposium asks whether and how technology might alter the way we perceive dwelling. Of particular interest are the aspects of experience that become impermanent or disrupted thanks to technology.To understand dwelling technology in the broadest historical and material senses, machines discussed range from the earliest tool to the modern computer, from the mundane job to the extravagant meal.
Speakers will be drawn from Georgia Tech LCC and Architecture faculty (Jay Bolter, Ian Bogost, Ron Broglio, Hugh Crawford, Carl Disalvo, Sabir Khan, Ken Knoespel, and Ali Mazalek) as well as a special guest from Emory, Drew Whitelegg, the author of _Working the Skies_.
Attendance is open to anyone, but we will only provide a limited number of box lunches available. If you would like to attend and eat lunch, you will need to RSVP by emailing ibogost@mac.com with your name and any sandwich preference.
Communication Colloquium: Research into Teaching
Location: Skiles 002
Speakers:Francis Desiderio, "Building Writers: Space and Place in the Writing Classroom"
Todd Reynolds, "Of 'False Dawns' and 'Industrial Fourth Dimensions': The Penitentiary and the Motion Picture at the Turn of the Century."
Critical Response by Hugh Crawford, Associate Professor, LCC.
All IAC faculty and staff are invited to attend.
Please bring a brown bag lunch. Beverages and desserts will be provided.
Sponsored by the Georgia Tech Writing & Communication Program and by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.
For further information, please contact Benjamin J. Robertson at
benjamin.robertson@lcc.gatech.edu
LCC Exhibit for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week at Georgia Tech
Location: Skiles Courtyard
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The Mad Housers, a non-profit corporation engaged in charitable work, research and education, are perhaps best known for their hands-on, pragmatic approach to providing shelter for homeless people, in particular through the design, construction, and provision of small (6'x8'x10') frame-and-plywood huts. These shelters, though not meant as permanent housing, provide privacy, security, stability and protection from the elements-- all of which the organization believes are vital in helping people escape homelessness.
The Mad Housers were founded by Georgia Tech College of Architecture graduate students Michael Connor and Brian Finkel to address the problem of homelessness in Atlanta. Mad Houser shelters are provided free of charge or obligation to their inhabitants.
In addition to research on homelessness in general, the class has been archiving newspaper articles and photographs, conducting audio and video interviews with Mad Houser clients and with current and former members of the group, as well as participating in some of the builds. They hope their work will provide a central archive for helping people to understand the goals and activities of this charitable group.
French and African Film Series: GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE (L'ESQUIVE, Kediche, 2003, 117mn) – DATE MOVIE – Thursday, October 25 - 7pm
Location: CLARY THEATER OF THE GEORGIA TECH STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress (Sara Forestier), César Awards (2005)Set in a bleak suburban housing project, Games of Love and Chance follows a group of teenagers, poor and immigrant for the most part. Many are involved in a class production of Marivaux’s 18th-century classic “Les jeux de l’amour et du hasard.” The rehearsals, both in and out of the classroom, are often the stage for their daily interactions. Krimo, whose dad is in prison, leaves his long-time girlfriend to pursue Lydia, a petulant girl who plays the lead role. Although he has no theater experience and the performance is days away, his infatuation leads him to take the part of Arlequin to play opposite Lydia – making a fool of himself in the process. Arguments among the group quickly surface as Krimo’s sudden love interest turns into a source of gossip and tension.
“Using non-professional actors who are astonishingly fresh and vigorous, [Abdellatif Kechiche] manages to mesh reality and hope together. “Games of Love and Chance” describes the world as it is and dreams as they should be.” Pierre Murat, Télérama
Film at Tech
LCC Speakers Series: Dudley Andrew
Location: Friday Dec. 7 Skiles 02, 2pm
Andrew's areas of research include World Cinema (special attention to West Africa, France, East Asia, Ireland), Aesthetics (theories of the image, Film among the arts), and French cinema and culture. He has published The Major Film Theories, Concepts of Film Theory, and Andre Bazin, all with Oxford UP. Another set of books explore key films and filmmakers: Film in the Aura of Art, a source book on Mizoguchi , a presentation of Breathless, and a "BFI classic" on Mizoguchi's Sansho Dayu. His most ambitious works deal with France in the 1930s: Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film (Princeton 1995) and Popular Front Parisand the Poetics of Culture, co-authored with Steven Ungar (Harvard, 2005). He has edited an anthology The Image in Dispute (1997), has programmed films for The Guggenheim museum, and served as a film festival judge. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim and several NEH fellowships and was named Chevalier--later Officier--de l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2006 he was inducted into the America Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale and serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Film Studies Program.Campus Visit: Dec 6 - 9
Drama Tech Production of "What Happened to Mr. Sugarlumpkins," Summer 2008
Location: DT Main-stage
June 27, 28, July 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 - 2008Drama Tech Production of "Urine Town," Spring 2008
Location: DT Main-stage
April 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19Drama Tech Production of "Macbeth"
Location: Drama Tech Main-stage
October 26, 27, 31, Nov 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 - 2007
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