Some major announcements
Posted at Mar 29/2009 01:29PM:
MS: Performing Presence
Our project to investigate "presence" [link] in live performance and media draws to a close with a final conference - March 25-30 Exeter University UK - summing up a tremendous five years of work ...
Link - Presence - the conference
Next comes a book from Routledge - "Archaeologies of Presence" - due out in 2010
Here are Pearson/Brookes in a performance Friday 27 March 2009:
memory, family, being there/here ...
Link - Theatre/Archaeology
Posted at Mar 25/2009 04:51PM:
MS: Binchester excavation go-ahead
In Stanford Classics Department we have put together the funding to enable the first season of new excavation at the Roman town and fort of Binchester, just south of Hadrian's Wall.
More news to follow very soon.
http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/Binchester
Posted at Feb 15/2009 04:38PM:
MS: Newsflash ...
Stanford's Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities has awarded another round of funding ($50k) to our collaborative project investigating Ceramics.
Posted at Feb 13/2009 12:45AM:
MS: Newsflash ...
my new photography site
http://archaeographer.com
Posted at Jan 04/2009 04:35PM:
MS: Newsflash ...
More seed funding for the Bibliotheca Universalis Antiquaria
$10k from Stanford Archaeology Center
Posted at Jan 12/2009 04:03PM:
MS: Newsflash ...
The latest Chrysler concept vehicle, unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show, is based upon our archaeological research conducted in Metamedia, Stanford Archaeology Center!
See Mobile Media 2015 for the project and take a look at the car here - [link] or here - [link]
Posted at Dec 13/2009 09:50PM:
MS: Newsflash ...
Life-Squared, the art project with Lynn Hershman Leeson, is currently part of the exhibition "The Art of Participation - 1950 to Now" running at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
[link]
The Art of Participation - a review
Posted at Jan 19/2007 08:38AM:
Stanford Humanities Lab at Sundance Film Festival
Strange Culture - actors Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan
On Monday 22 January and Wednesday 24 January our experimental facility in the online world Second Life will host the première of Lynn Hershman's new movie "Strange Culture" as part of the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2004 artist and college professor Steve Kurtz was preparing for a MASS MoCA exhibition that would let audiences test whether food has been genetically modified when, days before the opening, his wife tragically died of heart failure. Distraught, Kurtz called 911, but when medics arrived, they became suspicious of his art supplies and called the FBI. Dozens of agents in haz-mat suits sifted through his home and impounded his computers, books, cat, and even his wife's body. The government held Kurtz as a suspected bioterrorist, and, nearly three years later, the charges have not been dropped. He still faces up to 20 years in prison.
Because he is legally barred from comment, the movie uses actors as avatars to tell this story of contemporary art, science, politics and paranoia.
We have chosen to screen the movie on our island in Second Life because SHL is committed to exploring the intersections of the arts, humanities, science and technology, reaching out beyond the academy to address such matters of common concern.
Guests will include Lynn Hershman, Steven Kurtz and Howard Rheingold.
http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=7546
