HASTAC "Electronic Techtonics" Conference Registration is Now Open

Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface

April 19-21, 2007
Duke University and the Marriott Civic Center
Durham, North Carolina


HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced
Collaboratory) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its
first international conference, "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the
Interface"

Space is limited so register now at:
events.duke.edu/hastac




Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface is an unprecedented
three-day mashup of ideas, demos, art, and conversation, driven by digital
visionaries and practitioners from across domains and disciplines. This
conference is co-sponsored by Duke University, Renaissance Computing
Institute (RENCI) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

A detailed conference program is posted online at www.hastac.org.


(Hotel information is available on the registration site. Reserve now
because hotels fill up quickly here this time of year.)


Keynote addresses:

REBECCA ALLEN, Professor of New Media at UCLA, Intimate Interface: The
Interface Between Art and Technology

JAMES BOYLE, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the
Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School, Creative
Commons, Science Commons, and Open Source

JOHN SEELY BROWN, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director
of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), The Social Life of Learning in the
Net Age

CATHY N. DAVIDSON AND DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, MacArthur Foundation Project on
Digital Media and Learning, The Future of Learning Institutions in a
Digital Age

JOHN UNSWORTH, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information
Sciences (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The
Foundations and Futures of Digital Humanities

Program includes demos, exhibits, and performances–on theremins, with
videoscapes and soundscapes, in Virtual Reality, and in Second Life. Plus
refereed papers and panels covering topics such as race in cyberspace,
theorizing interface, genealogies of old and new media, funding the digital
future, games and narratives, and the future of the Internet and Web 3.0.

The full version of the conference program is located at
http://www.hastac.org/informationyear/conference


Space is extremely limited so register today at
http://events.duke.edu/hastac