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Plenary Speakers:
Anne BALSAMO
(United States)
Title of Speech:
Designing Culture: The Architecture and Performance of Innovation
Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship
between the culture and technology. This focus
informs her practice as a scholar, researcher, new
media designer, and entrepreneur. She is currently
a Full Professor of Interactive Media in the School
of Cinematic Arts, and of Communications in the
Annenberg School of Communications at University of
Southern California. She directs the Interactive
Media Co-Design Lab that houses research projects on
tangible culture, immersive media, and stereoscopic
cinema. She just completed a project, sponsored by
the MacArthur Foundation, on the future of libraries
and museums in a digital age. From 2004-2007, she
served as the Director of the Institute for
Multimedia Literacy at USC where she created one of
the first academic programs in multimedia literacy
across the curriculum. In 2002, she co-founded,
Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design
and fabrication company that builds cultural
technologies. Here she was involved in the creation
of novel interactives for clients such as Sun
Microsystems, the Liberty Science Center, Singapore
Science Center, and the Papalote Children¡¦s Museum
in Mexico City. Previously she was a member of RED
(Research on Experimental Documents), a
collaborative research-design group at Xerox PARC
who created experimental reading devices and new
media genres. She served as project manager and new
media designer for the development of RED's
interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in
the Future of Reading that toured
Science/Technology Museums in the U.S. from
2000-2003. Her first book, Technologies of the
Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP,
1996) investigated the social and cultural
implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new
book Designing Culture: The Technological
Imagination at Work (Duke UP, forthcoming)
examines the relationship between thetechnological
imagination, cultural reproduction and
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