About the seminar
Directed by: Dr. Jan Simons (UvA) and Dr. Ben Salem (Northumbria University)
Time: Every third wednesday of the month 15:00-17:00 CET, except for December and April. In April we intend to organise a two day conference.
Location: BG1 (Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam), room number to be announced.
For whom:The Interface Studies seminar is hosted by ASCA and open to other ASCA PhDs and guests.
How: Regular seminar meetings will consist of presentations by the participants of either their own work or (selections from) key texts and other objects of study, followed by a discussion.
During the first meeting, participants will select a date for their presentation and an initial selection of text/object to present.
To allow participants to come to the discussion prepared, final selections (2-3 journal papers/book chapters) will be made and shared by the presenter(s) at least 2 weeks in advance. In the case of prototypes or other objects, the presenters should share as much documentation as possible at least 2 weeks before the presentation.
For registration: Please contact Dr. Jan Simons (J.A.A.Simons@uva.nl)
Schedule of regular seminars for 2011/2012
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Ben Salem | Active Forms |
| 26 October 2011 | Noam Knoller | Interfaces as aesthetic-theoretical objects (reprise) |
| 16 November 2011 13:30-15:00 | Jorge Alves Lino | Responsive Environments as Remediation of Content |
| 18 January 2012 | Erinc Salor | Interfacing with Video Games |
| 15 February 2012 | Noam Knoller | Interface Criticism |
| 21 March 2012 | Nine Eglantine Yamamoto-Masson | |
| 16 May 2012 | Simon Scott-Harden | |
| 20 June 2012 | Kristy Fenton |
Suggested readings in interface studies
A Preliminary list
- Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold (Eds.) (2011). Interface Criticism. Aesthetics beyond the Buttons, Aarhus University Press (http://darc.imv.au.dk/?p=2121).
- Mark B.N. Hansen (2006). Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, Routledge.
- Anna Munster (2006). Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics, University Press of New England.
- Verhoeff, N. (2009) "Theoretical Consoles: Concepts for Gadget Analysis" Journal of Visual Culture 8, 3 (2009): 279-298.
- ___. (2009) "Grasping the Screen: Towards a Conceptualization of Touch, Mobility and Multiplicity." Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology. Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, Mirko Tobias Schaefer (eds.) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: 209-222.
- Steven A. Johnson. (1999) Interface Culture. Basic Books
- Richard Shusterman (1999). "Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57, pp. 299-313.
- ___ (2000) Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the End of Art. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
- ___ (2006). "Aesthetic and Practical Interests and their Bodily Ground." William James Society, 1.1:12 .
- Mark Johnson (1991). Knowing Through the Body. Philosophical Psychology 4 (1):3-18.
- Martyn Dade-Robertson (2011). The Architecture of Information: Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information. New York: Routledge.
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. (2011). Programmed Visions:Software and Memory. Cambridge, Ma: The MIT Press.
- Paul Dourish (2004). Where The Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. Cambridge, Ma: The MIT Press.
- David Rokeby (1995). Transforming Mirrors: Subjectivity and control in interactive media. In Simon Penny (Ed.) Critical Issues in Electronic Media (pp. 133-158). Albany: SUNY Press.
- Edward A. Shanken (2000). "Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning" (2000).
- Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul and Victoria Vesna (Eds.) (2011). Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect Books.
- Edward A. Shanken (2009). Art and Electronic Media. London and New York: Phaidon.
- Jef Raskin (2000). The Humane Interface, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
- Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge. Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, Ma: The MIT Press, 2011