Digital Technology and Culture

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Article on Information Systems

I received this notice from my Humanist listserv. I thought those of you pursuing Informatics would be interested in reading it:



This Week in Ubiquity:
Volume 8, Issue 8
February 27, 2007 - March 5, 2007

UBIQUITY ALERT: Business Decision Making, Management and Information Technology

V.Lalith Kumar, in the graduated program at ICFAI
Business School in Bangalore, India, has crafted,
with his coauthors, this interesting discussion
of the relationship between business decision
making and information technology. "The
possibilities of IT in facilitating problem
solving creativity are an important issue in
itself; here the technology has some proven
points -- idea generation, exchange and testing
mechanisms; growing sophistication of work
styles; support of teamwork and communication."

See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i08_lalith.html

posted by: grigar at 14:36 | link | comments |

Media Artist Talk at Northbank Gallery

WSUV’s Digital Technology & Culture / Northbank Gallery
Thursdays, February 22, March 29, & April 26, 2007

Washington State University Vancouver, the College of Liberal Arts, and Digital Technology and Culture Program along with Vancouver’s Northbank Gallery present The 2007 Spring Media Artist Talk Series.

The series takes place monthly from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the months of February, March, and April at Northbank Gallery––located in 1005 Main Street, in downtown Vancouver, just walking distance from Esther Short Park––and features both international and local media artists. Other talks are scheduled for Thursday, March 29th and Thursday, April 26th.

On February 22nd Canadian multimedia artist, Steve Gibson, kicks off the series with “Mapping Spaces: An Introduction to Media Art in Canada in the 21st Century,” a talk that focuses on his recent of work as well as the work of Julie Andreyev, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

More or less loosely influenced by the Situationists, these artists consider issues of space, the body, public interaction, and mobility. Distinct from American popular media art, but equally engrossed in North American media culture, Andreyev, Lozano-Hemmer, and Gibson present critical but engaged visions of technological art practice for the new millennium.

"Mapping Space(s)" presents Four Wheel Drift (2003-05) by Julie Andreyev, Body Movies (2003) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Virtual DJ (2001-04) by Steve Gibson, and When Ghosts Will Die (2005) by Steve Gibson and Dene Grigar as divergent examples of populist but epic media experiences. Each of these pieces transforms public interaction and posits radically workable solutions to the problem of interactivity that reached a stalemate at the end of the 20th Century. Discarding the artificiality of hypertext and web-based corporate “interactivity” these artists opt for more naturalistic models of interaction based on play, personal subjectivity and aimless wandering.

For more information about this event or any of the upcoming talks, visit the website, or contact Dr. Dene Grigar, Digital Technology and Culture Program, Washington State University Vancouver at 360-546-9487, grigar@vancouver.wsu.edu.

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Meeting Today

The DTC Club is meeting on Wednesday, February 14, from 12-1 p.m. to discuss membership and leadership for the upcoming year. Join us in MMC 102 Q. Nominations for leadership roles are due to Kerry Sharp.

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Big News

A special workshop entitled Introduction to Flash will be held on Friday, February 16, 10-12 in VMMC 111. Taught by Jeannette Altman, is open to any student in the DTC program. Students should sign up in advance for the workshop. The sign up sheet for the workshop can be found outside of John Barber's office at VMMC 102U.

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Students need to turn in their MAC Required Buy polls to Dene Grigar by Friday, February 16. The results of the polls will be announced on this blog.

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Nominations for officers of the DTC Club should be sent to the current club president Kerry Sharp. Email her at kerryksharp@yahoo.com.

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DTC Club Meeting Room

The DTC Club meeting room: VMMC 202Q. Be there or be square.

posted by: grigar at 01:48 | link | comments |

DTC Meeting

The DTC Club is meeting again this Wednesday, February 7 from 12-1 pm to move forward on selecting a new Board. As you all know, Kerry is stepping down as president this year since she plans to graduate and Terrell Harris has already graduated (in fall 2006).

The Club will also work on the upcoming workshops that will be the focus of the spring. At the last meeting Paul suggested that what students really wanted was professionalizing workshops focusing on software programs. Flash will be the first one offered.

The meeting room will be announced on Monday.

posted by: grigar at 16:13 | link | comments |

Report on Jobs Offering "Big Demand, Good Pay"

CNN Money has just published an interesting article entitle "10 Jobs: Big Demand, Good Pay." Three of the ten are tech centered. You may find the information interesting:

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/news/0702/gallery.jobs_in_demand/?cnn=yes

posted by: grigar at 19:05 | link | comments (2) |