[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Event: Text & Image: From Book History to "The Book is History"

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Wed Jan 31 09:54:37 PST 2007


Title: Text & Image: From Book History to "The Book is History"
Date: Friday, Feb. 2
Location: Calit2 Auditorium

Calit2 will host the second day of this two-day conference that explores
media history from movable type to the most recent debates about text
and image. The conference will include conversations on book history,
library acquisition and archives, the Google library initiative, digital
libraries and copyright.

Reservations recommended. Contact HumaniTech at (949) 824-3638 or
epace at uci.edu  
More information:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/text&image.html

Friday Schedule -- CALIT2 AUDITORIUM

9:25 Introductions

9:30 - 10:30 ARTIFACTS
Presenter: Mark Dimunation, Library of Congress, "The Thingness of the
Digital Object: A Curatorial Dilemma"
Respondent: Jane O. Newman, UC Irvine, "Forged Under Fire: The Fate of
Libraries in Times of War"
Moderator: Barbara Cohen, HumaniTech, UC Irvine

10:45 - Noon VISUAL WORLDS
Presenter: Richard Burt, University of Florida, "Border Skirmishes:
Weaving Around the Bayeux Tapestry and Cinema"
Presenter: Donald Hoffman, UC Irvine, "The User-Interface Theory of
Perception: Implications for the Evolution of Text and Image"
Moderator: Peter Krapp, UC Irvine

Noon - 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:45 SIGNATURES AND TYPOGRAPHY
Presenter: Jean-Francois Blanchette, UC Los Angeles, "The Sign that
Resists:
A Short History of Digital Signatures"
Presenter: Peter Cho, UCLA, "Letter, Word, and Text: Explorations in
Digital Typography"
Moderator: Julia Gelfand, UC Irvine Libraries

3- 5  THE FUTURE
Panel: Daniel J. Clancy, Google, "Indexing all the World's Books: Future
Directions and Challenges for Google Book Search"
Marc Davis, Yahoo! Inc.
Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine, "Organic Books"
David S.H. Rosenthal, Stanford University Libraries, "If Books Are
History, How Can the Future Have a Past?"
Moderator: Stephen Franklin, UC Irvine



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