CRITO Hour- March 23rd-Peter Krapp, UCI
The CRITO Hour
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:45 am - 12:50 pm UC Irvine Calit2, Room 3008
Peter Krapp, UC Irvine "Daisy, or A Bicycle for Two: On Computers and Music"
RSVP to [email protected] Join us for this casual & informative speaker series. More info at crito.uci.edu/critohour
Abstract A lunchtime talk discussing the media archeology of music and computer technology, guided by the song HAL offered in the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Raising questions about sound under the conditions of the networked computer, the talk will also discuss the role of noise in the context of ergonomics and efficiency.
Biography Peter Krapp is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, Visual Studies, and English at the University of California Irvine, and affiliated also with the Department of Informatics. He is the author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press 2004) and of the forthcoming book Noisy Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (University of Minnesota Press 2011).
Mark your calendar for our upcoming CRITO Hours: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 (The Paul Merage School of Business, 112) Kavita Philip, Associate Professor, UC Irvine's Department of Women's Studies "Postcolonial Technoscience" Wednesday, May 25, 2011 (Calit2, Room 3008) Michael Carey, Bren Professor, UC Irvine's Information & Computer Sciences "The End of SQL? Current Trends in Very Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis"