<div dir="ltr"><div>Welcome Ann, I hope you remember me, we met in Oslo and in Stockholm for many years ago! :)<br></div>Ana<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Renate Terese Ferro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Throughout these past two weeks of our discussion on New Tools and<br>
Technologies in 2015, Jason, Ben, Murat myself, and others have touched<br>
upon the cross-disciplinary influences of humanities and culture. I am<br>
pleased to introduce into our discussion Anne Balsamo. I met Anne in 2009<br>
at the Digital Arts and Culture conference held at Irvine<br>
<a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/ace_dac09" target="_blank">http://escholarship.org/uc/ace_dac09</a><br>
It was there that I heard of her research and interests in the<br>
cross-disciplinary influences on play and tinkering in the creative<br>
process of technological innovation. My lab, the Tinker Factory Lab,<br>
programs many of its events revolving around these issues. Anne¹s book.<br>
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke, 2011), has<br>
been an inspiration to my thinking about these issues especially in<br>
relationship to feminist thinking.<br>
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Just this past summer Anne and Liz Losh from the University of San Diego<br>
introduced me to a network of feminist scholars, academics, and<br>
technologists who have formed a collective Fem TechNet<br>
<a href="http://femtechnet.org/about-the-network/who-we-are/" target="_blank">http://femtechnet.org/about-the-network/who-we-are/</a> I welcome Anne today<br>
and hope she will share her research and current thoughts about thinking<br>
through new tools and technologies.<br>
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Anne Balsamo serves as the Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New<br>
School in New York City. Her most recent book, Designing Culture: The<br>
Technological Imagination at Work (Duke, 2011) examines the relationship<br>
between culture and technological innovation, with a particular focus on<br>
the role of the humanities in cultural innovation. In 2012, she and<br>
Alexandra Juhasz co-founded FemTechNet. Balsamo served as one of the key<br>
designers of the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) offered by<br>
FemTechNet in 2013. Previously she was a Full Professor at the University<br>
of Southern California where she held joint appointments in the Annenberg<br>
School of Communication and the Interactive Media<br>
Division of the School of Cinematic Arts. From <a href="tel:2004-2007" value="+59820042007">2004-2007</a>, she served as<br>
the Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC where she<br>
created one of the first academic programs in multimedia literacy across<br>
the curriculum. In 1998, she left a tenured faculty position at Georgia<br>
Institute of Technology to join a research-design group at Xerox PARC that<br>
created experimental reading devices and new media genres. In 2002, she<br>
co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and<br>
fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Her first book,<br>
Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996)<br>
investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent<br>
bio-technologies.<br>
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Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University<br>
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306<br>
Ithaca, NY 14853<br>
Email: <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">rferro@cornell.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rtf9@cornell.edu">rtf9@cornell.edu</a>>><br>
URL: <a href="http://www.renateferro.net" target="_blank">http://www.renateferro.net</a> <<a href="http://www.renateferro.net/" target="_blank">http://www.renateferro.net/</a>><br>
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