CASEY REAS:

ULTRACONCENTRATED: IMAGE, MEDIA, SOFTWARE

Thursday, February 26 at 6:00pm
Lawrence Hall, Room 115 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR

 

Casey Reas is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited, screened, and performed his work internationally in galleries and museums around the world. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences, as well as a bachelors degree from the School of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001, an open source programming language and environment created for visual artists.

Within the visual arts, software is a misunderstood medium. It’s dismissed by some and championed by others, but it remains an enigma to most. Certainly, software is the dominant tool for design and production, but it can be more.  Will software emerge as the next prominent art medium in the post-photographic world? What is a software studio? What is unique about working with software in the context of the visual arts? How does an artist learn to write software? Casey Reas has written custom software for over a decade to explore visual systems and emergent form. In this presentation, a hybrid of a screening and a presentation, he will share a selection from twelve years of work to address these questions.

March 6. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. 
Knight Library Browsing Room

About: As some democratic governments, many autocracies, drug and human cartels, and terrorist groups are attacking professional journalists and independent citizen journalists in increasing numbers, this symposium will explore the possibilities and challenges that media and technology present in such environments.

All are welcome to attend this morning symposium to discuss how journalists and citizens may work together in the service of public interest and how technology may help us achieve new ways of reporting events and creating new narratives that push for and strengthen democracy globally.

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Symposium organized by Gabriela Martinez: gmartine@uoregon.edu

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Speakers: 

Danny O’Brien: International Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

 

 

Madeleine Bair: Curator of the YouTube Human Rights Channel at Witness.

 

 

Gabriela Martinez: Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communications and the 2014-15 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar at the University of Oregon.

 

 

 

Endalk Chala: Co-founder of Ethiopia’s Zone-9 Bloggers and PhD student at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

 

 

Tewodroe Workneh: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

 

 

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Sponsors: 

University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication

Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

UO Department of Philosophy

UO Office of International Affairs

 

 

A talk by Robert W. Gehl, Assistant Professor of New Media, Department of Communications, University of Utah

Friday, February 27, 4:00 p.m. – Knight Library, Room 41

When: Edit-a-Thon: Friday, March 6, 2015, 10-5pm
Hack-a-Thon: Saturday, March 7, 2015, 10-5pm
Where: Los Angeles, CA (check out the full posting here for full details on individual event locations.)

Why should I attend?: Writers, researchers, coders, students: have you ever gone to Wikipedia looking for information about women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming scientists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists, politicians, and others, only to find the same gender marginalizations that occur in traditional Encyclopedias? Have you ever wondered what a feminist app or program might do or look like? Then join Ms. Magazine and the Fembot Collective for our first ever Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon!

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On Friday, March 6^th, Fembot and Ms. Magazine will be writing historical figures marginalized because of their gender into Wikipedia. Not only will they be contributing to the world of free knowledge and ensuring the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything, participants will be training people how to make effective and engaging entries that will outlive the participation of their creators – ensuring the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history.

Registration Details:

1. RSVP to Kitty Lindsay by email at klindsay@feminist.org or call 866-471-3652 [toll free].
2. Won’t be able to attend the event this year? You can still contribute ideas here!

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At the first Fembot Hack-a-thon, they created the Fembot Bot: an auto-tweeting bot designed to auto-reply to sexist and racist hashtags. Sadly, Twitter shut down the Fembot Bot too quickly. Join Fembot in their memory on Saturday, March 7^th, when they will collaborate with coders, software designers, and others at the Annenberg School to build some awe-inspiring feminist tools and interventions.

Registration Details:

1. RSVP here.
2. Contribute ideas here. 

*For more information, the full event posting is available here.

 

Friday, February 6, 2015
177 Lawrence Hall

James Tice, UO professor of architecture specializing in the cartography and urban history of Rome, will deliver the 2015 Presidential Research Lecture on Friday, February 6 in 177 Lawrence Hall. As a recipient of the Outstanding Research Career Award, Tice will share his passion for one of the world’s great cities through a series of magnificent cartographic portraits.

In conjunction with his lecture, Tice will mount an exhibition in Hayden Gallery in Lawrence Hall from February 2-13, with a public reception at 6:30 p.m. February 6 following his lecture. The gallery is free and open to the public during regular building hours including weekends.

Tice shares his passion for Rome through the creation of interactive online maps. “When I first started this work over ten years ago, it was a labor of love that I thought twelve people might find interesting,” Tice says. “I had no idea that hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world would find it engaging.”

Rome “is the most thoroughly documented city in the world,” Tice notes. “For almost two thousand years, architects and artists have depicted the city through a variety of cartographic methods employing virtually every kind of media at their disposal: stone, paper and graphite, oil and canvas, copper plates, wood, and frescoed stucco. In the process, they have left a vivid record of their impressions that has created a vivid portrait of one of the world’s great cities.”

Tice began his study of Rome four decades ago as a graduate student at Cornell University. Most recently his research has involved collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with colleagues at UO, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and Rome in the fields of geography, architectural history, archaeology, and computer sciences.

He is currently working on his third venture into interactive online maps related to Rome—the GIS Forma Urbis Romae Project: Creating a Layered History of Rome.

The presentation is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed on the UO Channel site.

Read more about Professor Tice and his current research projects here.

 

 

 

Don’t miss this year’s Grad Forum, which offers more awards, competitive group sessions, a new location, and lots of food!

The Graduate Student Research Forum is a one-day conference held annually at the University of Oregon to showcase research, scholarship and creative expressions by graduate students in all of the UO’s graduate colleges and schools. The Grad Forum began in 2010, making this the Forum’s sixth year. The Grad Forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 graduate students representing more than 50 disciplines.

This year’s Grad Forum, held at the Ford Alumni Center, will showcase the work of 150+ grad students from 30+ disciplines. The event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., has something for everyone.

Check out the flier below for more information, or visit the Grad Forum website here.

Save the Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location TBA.

Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, composed of successful university researchers and well known for their comprehensive and high quality training programs for faculty investigators, will present this one-day seminar. The seminar will provide a step-by-step guide to developing successful applications for funding by federal funding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

To register: email rds@uoregon.edu

Mon. Feb. 16th, 2015
10-11:30AM
EMU Walnut Room

 

Have you ever thought about applying your research skills to a career in social media? Join the UO Graduate School to hear Judd Antin, User Experience Researcher at Facebook, talk about his career path that includes research in Anthropology, Psychology, and Behavioral Economics, work at Yahoo, cofounding a startup, and a Ph.D. in Information Management Systems.

All graduate students and post-doctoral fellows welcome! Additional information at: http://blogs.uoregon.edu/outsidetheacademicbox/

The event is free but please register by emailing Evey Lennon at: evey@uoregon.edu.

February 4, 2015
4pm to 5:30pm
141 Allen Hall
1020 University St.
UO campus

A public lecture by Gabriela Martínez, 2014-15 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar and associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. Dr. Martínez is also the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and a CLLAS faculty affiliate.

Martinez will discuss her current project, “Media, Democracy and the Construction of Collective Memory.”The project explores the role media and content producers play in shaping collective memories and what it means to “construct” collective memories and historical memories through the production of media.

The project asks: How does media production address human rights violations? How does it promote social change? How does media production strengthen democratic practices? She examines these questions across nations, including Peru, Guatemala and Mexico.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture.

Sponsored by Media Studies at the School of Journalism and Communication and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.