FW: Ine Poppe Lecture on Digital Culture(s)

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*REMINDER & UPDATE*

This presentation will be webcast courtesy of Calit2 at:
http://rpvss.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/broadcast/live.rm
[Real player and broadband connection required]

Digital Culture(s) - Ine Poppe
Ine Poppe will discuss digital culture, technology and art.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
1pm - 3:00pm
Atkinson Hall Auditorium.

Ine Poppe will present some of her latest research in digital culture which
includes working on a novel about three women sharing a humanoid (about
robotics, artificial intelligence, sex and 'wet art').

She will discuss her involvement with the hacker community in Amsterdam, and
screen part of her film 'Hippies from Hell', which documents the history of
Hackers. Poppe lectures on the arts and multimedia and is Professor at
Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. Her documentary 'Hippies from
Hell' was shown at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2002 and
went on to venues in Europe and South America. She has written for several
computer games, and also produced 'Necrocam' - an online piece depicting a
webcam inside a coffin.

Last summer she took a camera crew to visit robotic Artist Norman White in
Canada. She is also working on a novel about life with a humanoid.

Ine Poppe (1960, NL) works in Amsterdam as an artist, writer, director. She
writes about digital culture, technology and art, the recent years mainly
for the national newspaper NRC-Handelsblad. She has researched and directed
television documentaries for National Television; wrote a journalistic book
about Dutch Squatters in the eighties, and published essays about art and
science. Her art-projects 'Mothermilk cheese' (1984), 'Women with Beards'
(1997) were shown worldwide.

Hippies From Hell http://hippies.waag.org/ Matt Mirapaul New York Times
about Necrocam:
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0211/msg00092.html
http://www.hollandsfilmglorie.com/inNecrocam.html (click: OEkijk online