Digital Humanities @ Harvard

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on February 4th, 2011 filed in Uncategorized
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On February 10th, 2011, I was on a panel the Humanities Center at Harvard hosted titled Digital Humanities 2.0: Emerging Paradigms in the Arts and Humanities in the Information Age. The other panelists include Anne Burdick, Todd Presner, Johanna Drucker and our host at Harvard Jeffrey Schnapp. A full video of the event is available.


MDP Made Up Exhibition

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on February 4th, 2011 filed in Uncategorized
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I have a text piece in Art Center’s Made Up exhibition in the Wind Tunnel in Pasadena. The show runs from January 29 to March 20, 2011 on Saturdays and Sundays, 12 – 5 pm or by appointment.


e-Pub Roundtable at UCLA

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on November 4th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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On November 5, 2010, I’ll be hosting a roundtable on electronic publishing and the academic humanities featuring Doug Sery, Editor, MIT Press, Leah Lievrouw, Professor, UCLA Information Sciences Brian Roettinger, Designer, Hand Held Heart Chandler McWilliams, Artist/Programmer, UCLA DMA, and David Ulin, Book Critic, Los Angeles Times. 1:00-5:00 at the EDA, UCLA.


Interview in ETAPES

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on October 8th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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Diana Mesa did an interview with me for ETAPES, the French graphic design magazine, following up on my visit to ENSAD in Paris this spring.


Interview in jvc

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on October 6th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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The latest issue of the Journal of Visual Culture features an in-depth interview with me, “Towards Visual Intellectuality: The Mediawork Pamphlet Series.” The second part of this interview will be published in December in the journal Design and Culture, the first time these two journals have combined forces.


Everyone is a Designer 2.0

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on October 6th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink have updated their classic from 2000 as Everyone is a Designer in the Age of Social Media. I’m delighted to be one of the contributors.


Hello World DMA Graduate Show

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on April 30th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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Hello World, the UCLA Design Media Art 2010 MFA Graduate Exhibition Opening reception will be May 13, 2010 at 5:00 pm. The artists are Christo Allegra, Madeleine Gallagher, Yoon Jung Han, Gautam Rangan, Melissanthi Saliba, and Eric Siu. This is the first group of UCLA students I have had the chance to work with from start to finish, and I am incredibly impressed with what they’ve come up with.

UCLA New Wight Gallery
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095


April in Paris (and Lille)

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on March 21st, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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I’ll be speaking at DEMO: MONSTRATION ET DÉMONSTRATION DES DISPOSITIFS INTERACTIFS at Le Fresnoy in Lille Friday, April 2nd and at ENSADLab on Tuesday the the 6th, 2010.
Programme du Printemps des Sciences humaines et sociales: http://www.meshs.fr
ENSADLab http://www.ensad.fr


Nowcasting: Design Theory+Digital Humanities

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on September 26th, 2009 filed in Uncategorized
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http://www.dma.ucla.edu/nowcasting/

NOWCASTING is the first conference to apply design theory to emerging issues in the digital humanities. Showcasing digital humanities projects at every level from Google mapping to super computing visualization, the Nowcasting seminar proposes that learning from communication design, interaction design, and industrial design will be vital to 21st century humanistic inquiry.

October 16 & 17, 2009 @ UCLA. The Nowcasting Seminar is organized by Peter Lunenfeld + sponsored by University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), UCLA Design|Media Arts ,Digital Humanities + Media Study

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/