MAT 595M Seminar Series

Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm

Location: Engineering Science Building, room 2001

Administrative Contact: Sölen DiCicco - solenk (at) gmail.com

This is a seminar in media arts and technology. The seminar will consist of talks by experts in various areas of media arts, multimedia systems, media technology, and related areas of research and practice. There will be a mix of speakers, from UCSB and from outside, with a variety of backgrounds, including computer science, engineering, art, and music. Occasionally we will schedule discussion or brainstorming sessions instead of a talk.

All Media Arts and Technology students are strongly encouraged to attend this seminar.

Winter 2012 Schedule

Music and Media for Experts and Everyone Else

January 10, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Tod Machover, Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab, Opera of the Future
Please note that this seminar will take place at CNSI 2611.

Building Bridges: Creating Sustainable Collaborations Amongst Musicians and Engineers

January 17, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Speaker: Elaine Chew, Professor of Digital Media, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London

Collaborations with my Algorithmic Self

January 24, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Harold Cohen, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
Please note that this seminar will take place at ESB 1001.

Science is Not Art : But We Sure Need Help

January 31, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology and Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Dallas

Digitality, Materiality and Embodied Interaction

February 7, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Simon Penny, University of California, Irvine

Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery

February 14, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland–College Park

Alternative Nows and Thens to Be: Photography, New Media, and Art Historical Revision

February 21, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Edward A. Shanken, Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
This seminar will take place at ESB 1001

The New Dunites

February 28, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speakers: Andres Burbano, Danny Bazo, Solen Kiratli DiCicco, University of California, Santa Barbara

Myth and Media

March 6, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Ken Goldberg, Professor of New Media, IEOR and EECS, College of Engineering and School of Information, UC Berkeley

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March 13, 2012 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Speaker: Jatila van der Veen, University of California, Santa Barbara