[Itself] This Friday Evocative Objects Symposium

[anita chan]

Hi all, Hope you can make it to the Evocative Objects Symposium coming up
this Friday. Sandy is representing the group at the 4:15pm panel. Hope to
see you there! Anita

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MIT Initiative on Technology and Self http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/techself/
Evocative Objects 2004 Symposium
Friday March 5, 2004 MIT, Killian Hall

Morning Session (Killian Hall - 14W - 111)

8:00-8:30	Breakfast

8:30-9:00	Sherry Turkle, MIT, Science, Technology, and Society
Director of the Initiative on Technology and Self
Welcome: Things We Think With

9:00-10:00	Mitchel Resnick, MIT,  Media Lab
Stars of My Childhood

10:00-11:15	Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT, Media Lab
Caroline Jones, MIT, Architecture; and
Krzysztof Wodiczko, MIT, Architecture
A Conversation: Are Aesthetic Objects Transitional Objects?

11:15-11:30	Break

11:30-12:30	Tod Machover, MIT, Media Lab
My Cello: Listening, Touch, and Evocative Music

12:30-2:00	Real/Faux Lunch (Media Lab Atrium - E15)
Everyone is encouraged to bring examples of their favorite real and faux
objects --  from Mont Blanc to Prada.

Afternoon Session (Killian Hall - 14W - 111)

2:00-3:00	Anne Pollock, MIT, History and Social Study of Science and
Technology
Technology to the Heart: Experiences of Internal Defibrillators

3:00-4:00	David Gordon Mitten, Harvard University, Classical Art and
Archaeology
Archaic Native American stone three-quarter-grooved axehead, from Holmes
County, Ohio. Date: around 3400 B.C.

4:00-4:15	Break

4:15-5:30	Working Group Leaders
MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
Panel and audience discussion: What have we learned about Evocative
Objects?

6:00		Reception (MIT Faculty Club - E52-6th Floor)