Harry Reese
Rita Raley
Charles Bazerman

Monday, April 12 (3:30PM)

William Paulson, Professor of Romance Studies, U. Michigan
Discussion of Chapter V, "Literary Culture and the Worlds of Science" from his recently completed book, Literary Culture and the Life of the World

Tuesday, April 20 (2:00PM)

Richard Grusin, Professor of Communications, Georgia Tech
"The Web and Cultural Difference"; also discussion of a chapter from his recently published book, Remediation: Understanding New Media

Monday, April 26 (3:30PM)

Jackie Spafford, Department of Art History, Slide Curator, UCSB
Student-Assigned Websites (presentation & discussion)

Friday, May 7 (3:30PM)

Muriel Zimmerman, Writing Program, UCSB
Digital Writing: A Technical Communication Perspective

Monday, May 17 (3:30PM)

Chris Schedler, Graduate Student in English, UCSB
Weaving Webs: Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, Internet
(pre-circulated articles & on-line discussion issues)

Monday, May 24 (3:30PM)

Carol Pasternak, Professor of English, UCSB
Using the Web in the Writing Components of Literature Courses

Monday, October 18th 3:30-5:30 PM

Introducing Transcriptions: Chris Schedler; Caroline Brehm; Diana Solomon; Bill Warner and Alan Liu offering a Workshop overview of hardware/software environment, and social and cyber- etiquette for grad students and faculty working in the Studio.

Monday, November 15th 3:30 PM

Alan Liu, Professor of English, UCSB
"Should We Historicize the Culture of Information?" Alan Liu is presently writing and teaching about the culture of information. His earlier work concentrated on the nature of the historical understanding of literature. Historical understanding is part of the heritage of the humanities, perhaps never more so than in the last few decades of new historicist, cultural-critical, and other contextualist criticism. The troubling question he is currently wrestling with in his research and pedagogy: is historical understanding capable of representing the contemporary culture of information? Or is such understanding just another competing media-effect, interface, mode of information, or simulation to be kept open in a window on the cultural desktop? Is "history" more real than "media"? The following are readings for the colloquium (print materials available in the English Dept. office in advance of the meeting):

• Alan Liu's talk at the English Institute, Oct. 2, 1999, "The Laws of Cool (Information Should Not Mean But Be)," 21 pages in typescript
• Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understandng New Media, pp. 3-19
• Alan Liu's Fall 1999 undergraduate course on "The Culture of Information": peruse the Schedule page to observe the structure of the course

Online materials prepared for the colloquium

Friday, December 3^rd

J.Hillis Miller, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC/Irvine
2:30 Discussion of those selections of Professor Miller's recent book, Black Holes, which deal explicilty with telecommunications. (pp. 89-183) You may pick up a copy of the reading in the English Department in the weeks before the discussion.
4:30 Public Lecture, English Department Seminar room (SH 2635) "Marcel on the Telephone"

Tuesday, January 25th 3:30 PM

Ann Bermingham, Professor of Art History, UCSB

"Narrative, Memory, Archive: Some Thoughts on Louisa Conolly's Print Room at Castletown, Co. Kildare"

Monday, February 7th

Matt G. Kirschenbaum, Professor of English, University of Kentucky

3:30PM Public Lecture: "Understanding Information." English Department Seminar Room

5:00PM Workshop on "New Media in the Curriculum and the Job Market"

See also his talk from the MIT "Media in Transition" Conference: The Other End of Print: David Carson, Graphic Design, and the Aesthetics of Media

Barbara Cohen, Director, UC Irvine HumaniTech: Computer Resources for Faculty Research and Teaching

3:30PM Workshop: "A Chat with Barbara Cohen"

M. D. Coverley (pen name of Marjorie C. Luesebrink), MFA, Hypertext Fiction Artist & Professor of English, Irvine Valley C.

3:00 PM, "The Crimson Orb: Technology and Women on the WWW"

Event co-sponsored by the UCSB Women's Center, College of Creative Studies, and English Dept.

Marjorie Luesebrink teaches writing at Irvine Valley College and has been making hypermedia fiction since 1995. Her interactive, hypertext novel, Califia, is forthcoming from Eastgate Systems on CD-ROM, spring 2000. Recent short fictions on the web include: "Endless Suburbs" (Iowa Review Web), "Rain Frames" (Aileron), "Life in the Chocolate Mountains" (Salt Hill #7), "To Be Here as Stone Is" with Stephanie Strickland (Riding the Meridian), "The Lacemaker" (The Book of Hours of Madame de Lafayette produced by Christy Sheffield Sanford), and "Pao Lien and the Cave Dragon, Wu" (the trAce Millennium Project Gallery). Forthcoming pieces include "Fibonacci's Daughter" (New River, #7) and "Eclipse Louisiana" (Cauldron and Net, April 2000). The February issue of Riding the Meridian includes her project, "The Progressive Dinner Party" (with Carolyn Guertin)—featuring 39 women writing web-specific literature. She also serves on the Board of Director for the Electronic Literature Organization.

April 10, 3:30PM, Arts 2235

Harry Reese, Professor of Art Studio, UCSB

"The Trailing Edge of Technology: A Field Trip to Professor Reese's Studio"

Location: Arts 2235

May 23rd

Rita Raley, Asst. Professor of English, University of Minnesota

3:30 Lecture: "How to Make Things with Words: Hypertext and Literary Value" (first paragraph and bibliography)

Location: English Dept. Seminar Room, South Hall 2635-

5:00 Workshop: "Taxonomies of Hypertext Fiction": Reading: Espen Aarseth, "Introduction: Ergodic Literature" (available online at the site for his Cybertext book) Location: Transcriptions Studio, South Hall 2509

Also see Raley's courses, Hypertext Fiction and Theory & Electronic Literature and Culture, and her new Web anthology of hypertext art, criticism, etc: Hypermarks: An Anthology of Electronic Literature

June 5

Charles Bazerman, Professor of English and Education, UCSB

3:30 Colloquium: "Nuclear Information: One Rhetorical Moment in the Construction of the Information Age"
Location: Transcriptions Studio, South Hall 2509