[Webpub] HyperStudio Talk: Amber Frid-Jimenez, Oct 10, noon, 14E-310

[Suzana Lisanti]

The HyperStudio team would like to invite you to the first of a series  
of HyperStudio Talks on digital humanities and cultural practices:

Leave Any Noise at the Signal / Participation Art Online
Amber Frid-Jimenez

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Friday, October 10, at noon
Room 14E-310
Light snacks will be served
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This talk by Amber Frid-Jimenez traces the history of participation in  
artistic movements and early networked communication to contextualize  
a series of experimental projects at the intersection of performance  
and participation online. Online participatory media holds the promise  
of activating otherwise passive audiences by providing spaces that  
encourage creative collaboration among diverse participant

Projects to be discussed include WikiPhone, in which multiple  
participants collaborate on soundtracks; OpenBrand, a system that  
allows participants to rewrite advertisements;Emma On Relationships, a  
video blog inviting participants to call in for love advice; and  
several other projects, exploring aspects of creativity and  
collaboration. Commonalities within these systems are examined in  
order to define design principles governing the creation of  
participatory media, and to explore the potential of these systems to  
effect social and political change.

About the speaker
Amber Frid-Jimenez is a new media artist, technologist, and designer  
whose work confronts issues ranging from politics and surveillance to  
representations of women in media. Her recent work includes  
interactive video installations, performance-based participation from  
large-scale online audiences, print design and painting. Frid-Jimenez  
is currently teaching in the MIT Visual Arts Program and the Rhode  
Island School of Design. She is a 2008 Rockefeller Foundation New  
Media Fellow Nominee, 2008 Fellow for Extending Creativity in Digital  
Media for the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the 2006–7 Steven R.  
Holtzman Fellow for Digital Expression. Frid-Jimenez is a graduate of  
the MIT Media Laboratory where she studied with John Maeda in the  
Physical Language Workshop. Prior to beginning her degree, she  
researched the aesthetic and social implications of collecting and  
mining large databases of text in the Cognitive Machines Group at MIT.

For more information:
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