afterlife & death in a digital age

afterlife & death

afterlife & death

in a digital age

in a digital age

1 day seminar at the National University of Singapore (NUS): Saturday 17th April 2010

SPEAKERS/PERFORMERS

Dr. Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University in Istanbul and Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. His work has been published in Leonardo and Art Inquiry and his interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection between digital arts, visual culture and new media technologies. He is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University College London. He has exhibited works at the ICA in London and done digital interventions at TATE Modern, The Venice Biennale, MoMA, Neue Nationalgalerie, the ICA and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Dr. David Kirk is a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction & Ubiquitous Computing at the Mixed Reality Lab in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham His research is focused on the design, use and evaluation of information and communications technologies. Taking a human-centred perspective he is interested in exploring how novel interactive and communicative artefacts can be designed to support human activities. He has previously researched in the areas of video-based communication, tangible user interfaces and media management and archiving in the home. Recently his work has begun to focus on issues to do with the concept of 'Technology Heirlooms'. He is exploring the relationships between people and sentimental artefacts, considering the ways in which digital technologies might come to be both meaningful artefacts and inheritable items, and examining the social relationships that surround such technologies.

Dr. Martin Gibbs is a member of the Interaction Design Group in the Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. He completed his PhD with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne in 2000. Since 2002 his research has investigated how people use a variety of interactive technologies (video games, community networks, mobile phones, etc.) for convivial and sociable purposes in a variety of situations (family relationships, local neighborhoods, work-based occupational communities, online computer games). His main research interests are social engagement and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), computer-supported cooperative play (CSCP), connected homes and privacy and data quality. His current projects include the Australian Research Council funded Connected Homes Project and a project on The Social World of Raiding.

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LOCAL CHAIRS

Dr. Denisa Kera (Communications & New Media, National University of Singapore) and Dr. Connor Graham (Independent and Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne)

POSTER EXHIBITION CHAIR

Pin Sym Foong (Communications & New Media, National University of Singapore)

INTERNATIONAL CHAIRS

Dr. Lanfranco Aceti (Sabanci University), Dr Martin Gibbs (Department of Information Systems, Dr. Mark Rouncefield (Computing Department, Lancaster University)

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LOCAL ORGANISER/VOLUNTEERS

Sorelle Henricus (English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore), Jose Rojas (Mobile Interactive Media and Entertainment Laboratory, National University of Singapore), Chew Lin Kay

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mike Arnold, William Gaver, Pin Sym Foong, Mitchell Harrop, Eric Laurier, Paul Luff, Jose Rojas, Jolynna Sinanan, Elise van den Hoven

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PARTICIPANTS

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Presenters will be marked with an asterisk (*).

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