live chat with Dene Grigar + Tara Rogers: Jan 10, 2007 (Leonard Electronic Almanac Discussion)

_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 8_
Wild Nature and the Digital Life Special Issue, guest edited by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas

:: Live chat with Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program as Washington State University Vancouver Dr. Dene Grigar and Canada-US scholar Tara Rogers, discussing their approaches to the binary opposition that rises from the Wild/Nature pair, on the context of their work as researchers / artists.

:: Chat date: Wednesday, January 3.
:: 2 pm West Coast US / 5 pm East Coast USA / 10pm UK

:: LEAD is an open forum around the Wild Nature and the Digital Life special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/intro.asp

Chat instructions are below. The LEA website includes instructions and a complete list of upcoming chats: http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n07-08/forum.asp

:: Author Biographies
Dene Grigar is a media artist-scholar and Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program as Washington State University Vancouver. Her books include "New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways in and Around Electronic Environments" (with John Barber) and"Defiance and Decorum: Women, Public Rhetoric, and Activism" (with Laura Gray and Katherine Robinson); media art works include “Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts” and “The Jungfrau Tapes: A Conversation with Diana Slattery about The Glide Project,” both of which appeared in Iowa Review Web in October 2004, and "When Ghosts Will Die" (with Canadian multimedia artist Steve Gibson), a piece that experiments with motion tracking technology to produce narrative. The video of the piece has been named Finalist in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Award Competition and has been on exhibit at Art Tech Media 06 in Spain. Her most recent work is the "MINDful Play Environment", a live, interactive game environment she is developing (with Gibson) for the Oregon Museum or Science and Industry. She is also Associate Editor of Leonardo Reviews and International Editor for Computers and Composition.

Tara Rodgers is a Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar in the Communication Studies PhD program at McGill University. She has an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, and recently taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has exhibited sound and video art in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, and released recordings (as Analog Tara) on compilations including Source Records/Germany and the Le Tigre Remix. Her book, Pink Noises: Women On Electronic Music and Sound, is under contract with Duke Unversity Press. More info: http://www.safety-valve.org/


:: How to participate in the live chat?
Live chats will use the Writing and the Digital Life Discussion Room (http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi?WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFEhttp://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi?WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE). To acess the WDL discussion room, it is necessary to subscribe to the list, by chosing "Join WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE" from http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=writing-and-the-digital-life&A=1. If the online interface does not start, it is necessary to download and install the most recent Java version (http://www.java.com)