[Webpub] TODAY: HyperStudio lunchtime presentation

[Suzana Lisanti]

Noontime presentation:

Leave Any Noise at the Signal / Participation Art Online
Amber Frid-Jimenez
Media Lab, Visual Arts Program, RISD

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TODAY Friday, October 10, at noon
Room 14E-310
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The HyperStudio team would like to invite you to the first of a
series of HyperStudio Talks on digital humanities and cultural
practices. 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 participants.

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:
web http://hyperstudio.mit.edu
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