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Voices from the Future: Virtual Reality Patents and Interviews for HASTAC
By hhalpin on Apr 9th, 2007
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I have to admit that when I first came to Duke I was a bit overwhelmed with the concept of "interface." It is very difficult to say precisely what...
Towards Affective Metaphysics
By hhalpin on Mar 20th, 2007
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The indomitable David Liu is presenting on his project to create an "affective metaphysics," and by affect he means far more than human emotion,...
Interface Seminar: Interactive Digital Music
By hhalpin on Feb 28th, 2007
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Ben Crawford's exploring the edge of music and computers, and his background readings gave us a preliminary exploration of this emerging field....
Interface Seminar: Neuroartist Extraordinaire
By hhalpin on Feb 4th, 2007
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Bill Seaman is the head of Digital Media at RISD, and he's luckily coming over at the invitation of Kristine Stiles to speak to the Interface...
Interface Seminar: Neuroscience and Art
By hhalpin on Feb 3rd, 2007
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If one were to jumble all the disciplines of a modern University up in some giant hat, and just choose two out at random, one fairly seemingly...
Interface Seminar: Rebuilding the Self
By hhalpin on Jan 30th, 2007
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By virtue of his cochlear implant, Mike Chorost is the living embodiment of a "cyborg," yet I personally find the mere fact that he hears through...
Interface Seminar: Jenkins and Convergence Culture
By hhalpin on Jan 24th, 2007
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Henry Jenkins, the renown cultural theorist from MIT, is visiting Duke for a few days currently and we are inviting him to our Interface Seminar....
Interface Seminar: Architecture from the Outside
By hhalpin on Dec 18th, 2006
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Elizabeth Grosz is interested in how concepts like "virtual reality" and the "cyberspace" inherently presuppose some distinction between the mind and...
Interface Seminar: Dreams of Our Perceptual Present
By hhalpin on Dec 18th, 2006
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Orit Halpern is the postdoctoral fellow for the Interface seminar, and is definitely an up and coming theorist actively involved in synthesizing...
Interface Seminar: Unit Operations and the Play of the Imagination
By hhalpin on Dec 18th, 2006
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We were lucky enough for this seminar to have a visit by Ian Bogost, author of Unit Operations. It's hard for me to describe the subversive work...
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