Digital Humanities Talk

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on March 24th, 2009 filed in Uncategorized
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Info-Triage and Sticky Media: A seminar exploring the relevance of contemporary theories of design to the overall project of the Digital Humanities. UCLA Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities, 2-5 April 6, 2009 in the Visualization Portal (5628 Math Sciences Building) and in Second Life on the Digital Library Federation island, Entropia. http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/

Winter Quarter DMA Courses

Posted by peterlunenfeld on January 3rd, 2009 filed in Uncategorized
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Winter quarter of 2009, I’m teaching two courses at UCLA: a grad seminar on Writing as Making and an undergraduate lecture on design and society I’m calling Nowcasting.

Westwood Ho!

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on August 17th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized
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I’m off to Westwood to join the UCLA Design | Media Arts department in September of 2008.

Holy Fire in Brussels

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on April 16th, 2008 filed in Panels, Uncategorized
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There’s an interesting new show going up in Brussels inspired by one of Bruce Sterling’s novels. “Holy Fire, Art of the Digital Age”, is at iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology from the 18th-30th of April. It features Cory Arcangel (USA), Vuk Cosic (SLO), Shane Hope (USA), Jodi (BE/NL), Lab[au] (BE), Joan Leandre (SP), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (RU/DE), Golan Levin (USA),Mark Napier (USA), Casey Reas (USA), Charles Sandison (UK/FI), Antoine Schmitt (FR), Yacine Sebti (BE), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (RU), John F. Simon, Jr. (USA), Paul Slocum (USA), Wolfgang Staehle (USA), Eddo Stern (USA), Ubermorgen.com (AT), Carlo Zanni (IT) among others.

Jan Chipchase in the NYT

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on April 14th, 2008 filed in Talks
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In February, our Bespoke Futures seminar did a workshop with Nokia’s design anthropologist Jan Chipchase. His work with global, low income communities and ITC development, including cell phone banking was covered in depth this weekend in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Pecha Kucha from Da Fucha 4/11/08

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on April 6th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized
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As their final in Design Dialogues, 1st year MDP students will do a pecha kucha in which they envision themselves five to seven years out of graduate school, coming back to do a presentation at Art Center. This is a prospective exercise in retrospective path finding. As Oscar-nominated editor Sally Menke discussed in Design Dialogues in the Fall of ‘07, one can only craft the narrative of a career in reverse, picking out signposts in the rear view mirror. This assignment, which might also be tited “Pech Fucha,” also serves as a place to examine the issue of ambition: How does a creative person think past the defaults of design authorship, commercial celebrity, and avant-garde autonomy?

Rick Vermeulen @ Design Dialogues 4/4/08

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on March 31st, 2008 filed in Panels, Talks, Uncategorized
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Rick Vermeulen is one of the most influential designers coming out of the Netherlands in the past quarter century. From 1978-82, Vermeulen was an editor of Hard Werken magazine, which made a considerable national impact and the group became a design studio operating under the name Hard Werken. In 1994, the company moved from Rotterdam to the Amsterdam area and amalgamated with the packaging design company Ten Cate Bergmans, subsequently changing its name to Inizio. In 1993, Vermeulen, a regular visitor to the United States, with teaching experience at Cranbrook, CalArts and North Carolina State University, moved to Los Angeles, where he took over the Hard Werken LA Desk for two years. Now back in Holland, he runs his own studio Via Vermeulen and works on projects for publishing and other clients.

Design Dialogues 3/14/08

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on March 11th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized
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This week, we are hosting Jason Tester, Research and Design Manager, The Institute for the Future. His interests in interactive technology began the old-fashioned way, tinkering one-on-one with the equipment he had at hand. With his work on technological voting, however, he saw the possible effects of computer-human interaction on the future of society as a whole. At IFTF, Jason focuses on three areas: research into how people use emerging technologies, the application of design to futures research, and facilitating groups to stimulate insights and implications about the future. Jason strives to look beneath the surface of society and its artifacts for hidden layers of meaning.

Software Studies

Posted by peterlunenfeld on March 6th, 2008 filed in Conferences, Talks
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I’ll be participating in the inaugural Software Studies Workshop at UC San Diego, May 21 - Thu. May 22. This workshop has been organized by Lev Manovich, Director, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Associate Director, and Jeremy Douglass, Postdoctoral Researcher, Helena Bristow, Program Manager

Design Dialogues 03/07/08

Posted by peterlunenfeld on March 3rd, 2008 filed in Talks
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This Friday, March 7th from 2-5, we’ve got presentations by two MDP alumni, Scott Nazarian of Frog Design and Jiyeon Song who is spending this term working on the intellectual property issues related to her One Day Poem Pavilion thesis project. As well, a number of applicants to the MDP for admission in Fall ‘08 will be attending.