Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 479.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (63)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence by Eric
Paulos
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (52)
dortmund.de>
Subject: "Web Ethics" chat in CyberForum@ArtCenter
[3] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (58)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Ars Electronica, Object to Be Destroyed, Photographer
of Modernity
[4] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (73)
dortmund.de>
Subject: "Socrates in the Labyrinth --Hypertext-Argument-
Philosophy"
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:18:35 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence by Eric
Paulos
Greetings humanist groups,
Hello, Eric Paulos will be speaking at Seminar on People, Computers and
Design of Stanford University Program in Human-Computer Interaction ON
"Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence" NOT at UC Berkeley..Actually
he is working at University of California, Berkeley.
> [Forwarded via Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
> Home page at: <http://pcd.stanford.edu/seminar> Video at:
> <http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses> **Dr. Eric Paulos will be
> giving a lecture on "Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence" -a
> great scholar at UCB, working with great peers like John Canny and Ken
> Goldberg..in Tele-embodiment, Robotics research and Telepistemology, etc.
> If anyone is near to UCB, then please try to hear the lecture and attend
> to it. --My humble request. The short abstract are (INSIDE) below. Thanks.
> Arun Tripathi]
>
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:39:31 -0800
> From: Terry Winograd <winograd@cs.stanford.edu>
>
> Friday, March 10, 2000, 12:30-2:00pm
> Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
>
> Eric Paulos, UC Berkeley
> paulos@cs.berkeley.edu
> <http://www.prop.org.>
>
> TITLE: Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence
>
> ABSTRACT:
> Current computer mediated communication tools such email, chat, and
> videoconferencing have increased our social tele-connectivity. They allow
> us to exchange text, images, sound, and video with anyone whose interests
> we share, professionally or socially, regardless of geographic location.
> But for many applications something important is still missing. Existing
> tools fail to provide us with an adequate interface into the real world in
> which we live, work, and play.
>
> This talk will describe one such approach towards solving this problem with
> simple, inexpensive, internet-controlled, untethered tele-robots or PRoPs
> (Personal Roving Presences). PRoPs strive to provide the sensation of
> tele-embodiment in a remote real space. The physical tele-robot provides
> several verbal and non-verbal communication cues including: audio, video,
> mobility, directed gaze, proxemics, and simple gesturing. PRoPs also enable
> their users to perform a wide gamut of human activities in the remote
> space, such as wander around, explore, converse with people, and hang out.
>
> For more information please visit <http://www.prop.org>
>
> **************************************************************
> Eric Paulos is a PhD graduate student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
> His research interests revolve around mediated human communication and
> interaction, particularly internet based personal telepresence. His focus
> is on the physical, aural, visual, and gestural interactions between humans
> and machines and various permutations of those interactions. He has
> developed numerous internet based tele-operated robots since 1995 when he
> implemented Mechanical Gaze. Subsequently he designed several small
> human-sized Space Browsing helium filled tele-operated blimps, the first
> tele-operated laboratory, and ground based Personal Roving Presence (PRoP)
> devices that attempt to provide remote tele-embodiment -- the ability of a
> user to explore, communicate, and interact freely within a remote space. He
> expects to complete his PhD this Fall.
>
> **************************************************************
Kind Regards
Arun Kumar Tripathi
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:22:07 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: "Web Ethics" chat in CyberForum@ArtCenter
Greetings humanist scholars,
[Please join "Web Ethics" chat in CyberForum on Saturday, March 11, 1:30
PM PST..This time Prof. Carol Gigliotti (Interactive Arts) is there to
take important issues of WEB ETHICS..Her one of many research interest is
Ethics and Aesthetics of Interactive Technologies..Her remarkable and
magnificent research work on ' Ethical Navigations through Virtual
Technologies' can be read at: <http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Astrolabe/>
Thanks and courtesy to Dr. Heim. --Arun]
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:22:07 -0800
From: CyberForum <cyberforum@artcenter.edu>
To: "CyberForum@ArtCenter" <CyberForum@artcenter.edu>
CyberForum@ArtCenter
Wednesday, March 11, 1:30 PM PST
Carol Gigliotti and panel meet in 3-D avatar world
Email: cyberforum@artcenter.edu
Web: <http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>
The CyberForum presents real-time online author chats.
On Saturday, March 11, at 1:30 PM PST, Carol Gigliotti, Ph.D.,
discusses "Web Ethics." Carol Gigliotti is an educator
who analyzes the ethics of Internet technology. She developed
the website/online journal/CD-ROM "Astrolabe" and she writes
about the values underlying the Web. Please join Carol and
the panel for a free-flowing discussion.
Chat log with screen grabs from previous meetings of
the Forum are online at:
<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/archive.html>
The Forum features authors drawn from The Digital Dialectic:
New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) collected and
edited by Peter Lunenfeld.
Forums are open to the public and run one hour
on either Wednesdays or Saturdays.
CyberForum speakers include:
Carol Gigliotti, March 11, 1:30 PM PST
Lev Manovich , March 25, 1:30 PM PST
William J. Mitchell, April 5, 1:30 PM PST
Brenda Laurel, March 1, 1:30 PM PST
Katherine Hayles, Feb. 26, 1:30 PM PST
Michael Heim, Feb. 9, 1:30 PM PST
Peter Lunenfeld, Feb 2, 1:30 PM PST
Email questions to cyberforum@artcenter.edu
For further information and speaker bios,
visit the website:
<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>
To participate: Download the free Eduverse 3D browser from
<http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/awedu_download.html>
Install the software and enter as a tourist in Eduverse.
The left panel of the Eduverse browser shows a list of
worlds. Choose "ACCD" world and follow the other
avatars to the Forum location. The Virtual Worlds Team
at Art Center will be there to guide you.
The CyberForum@ArtCenter is a production of the Virtual
Worlds Team at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California, under the direction of Michael Heim (mheim@artcenter.edu)
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:23:16 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Ars Electronica, Object to Be Destroyed, Photographer of
Modernity
Greetings Scholars,
[NEW BOOKS IN ART, FILM, AND PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MIT PRESS --Forwarded
with courtey to Jud Wolfskill..--Arun]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:47:20 GMT
From: "Art, Photo and Film Editorial" <art_photo_film@mitpress.mit.edu>
This message is one of a series of periodic mailings about newly released
books in art, film, and photography. You have received this mailing
because you have either purchased a book or added yourself to the mailing
list.
Follow the URLs below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and ordering
information.
This month, check the MIT Press web site (http://mitpress.mit.edu) for
books and discussion on the art of the future.
Ars Electronica
Facing the Future
edited by Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/DRUAHF99>
For the past two decades the Austrian-based Ars Electronica, Festival for
Art, Technology, and Society has played a pivotal role in the development
of electronic media. Linking artistic practice and critical theory, the
annual festival and symposium bring together scientists, philosophers,
sociologists, and artists in an ongoing discourse on the effects of
digital media on creativity--and on culture itself.
Since Ars Electronicas inception, the evolution of the artistic,
historical, and theoretical works presented has been documented in a
series of publications that remain crucial to any understanding of media
art. Drawing on the abundant and inventive resources of those
publications and on Ars Electronicas archives, this anthology collects
the essential works that form the core of a contemporary art long
dismissed as too technical or inaccessible.
Object to Be Destroyed
The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark
Pamela M. Lee
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/LEEBHF99>
In this first critical account of Gordon Matta-Clarks work, Pamela M.
Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s-particularly
site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices--and its
confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban
space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have
defined modern building programs.
7 x 9, 240 pp., 99 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-12220-0
Germaine Krull
Photographer of Modernity
Kim Sichel
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SICGHF99>
Germaine Krull (1897-1985) led an extraordinary life that spanned nine
decades and four continents. She witnessed many of the high points of
modernism and recorded some of the major upheavals of the twentieth
century. Her photographs include avant-garde montages, ironic studies of
female nudes, press propaganda shots, as well as some of the most
successful commercial and fashion images of her day. Kim Sichels study
of this remarkable artist reveals a life of deep convictions, implausible
transformations, complex emotional relationships, and inspired
achievements.
9 1/2 x 12 1/4, 363 pp., 191 illus., 148 duotone, cloth ISBN 0-262-19401-5
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:25:50 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: "Socrates in the Labyrinth
--Hypertext-Argument-Philosophy"
Greetings humanist groups,
As a net messenger and working globally as an educator with different
scholars and teachers round the globe and..it is a real pleasure to do the
virtual data-mining on the various aspects of..education, philosophy,
cyberspace, hypertext, media, education technology, arts/history..etc..
-SO, here is once again..Arun Tripathi with his treasure trove..
Recently, "the Father of Hypertext", Prof. Michael Joyce has given
a "gentle title" to me as 'Global Research Assistant to the Hypertext
Community'. What a great honour!! I love this and bow to this!
This time, in my "treasure trove" is one Diamond ** David Kolb **
David Kolb, is Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy in the Dept. of
Philosophy and Religion at Bates College. For more details about this
Living Legend, please visit at: <http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/>
He is the author of "The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger and
After", "Postmodern Sophistications" and most terrific book, he has
written on "Socrates in the Labyrinth" --a collection of hypertext essays
about non-linear writing in philosophy. Socrates in the Labyrinth is a
wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought,
and argument.
--Prof. David Kolb has also asked some questions in his explosive essay--
I) Does hypertext present alternatives to the logical structures of
if-then, claim and support?
II) Is hypertext a mere expository tool, that cannot alter the essence of
discussion and proof? OR Is the hypertext essentially unsuited to rigorous
argument?
Socrates in the Labyrinth is one the first works of hypertext non-fiction
to examine and exploit the techniques of hypertext rhetoric....Socrates in
the Labyrinth was created using Storyspace, which is a Hypertext tool for
writers and readers..is a hypertext writing environment..
"Socrates in the Labyrinth --Hypertext-Argument-Philosophy"
<http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Socrates.html>
Prof. Charles Ess has written a review of "Socrates in the Labyrinth
--Hypertext-Argument-Philosophy"
<http://www.eastgate.com/reviews/Ess.html>
In the words of Charles Ess, "..Kolb is one of the very few philosophers
whose own work on postmodern makes him eminently well-qualified to
consider the various postmodern views which tend to drive hypertext
theory".
An excellent Hypertext site by George Landow
Cyberspace, hypertext & critical theory
<http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/cspaceov.html>
David Kolb, "Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and
Tradition, xii, 216 pp..1990
David Kolb, "The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After,
1986
SOCRATES IN THE LABYRINTH BY David Kolb at
<http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/hipertul/socrates2.html>
An Anthology on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on
Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, edited by David Kolb
Among his other writings, include Hegel's theories of architecture.
ONE THING, please DO NOT FORGET to VISIT his INTERNET TEACHING TECHNIQUES
site at <http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/teaching.html>
He has also written a hyper-essay called Socrates Apology..can also be
read at <http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/seulmonde/Apology.html>
His GRAND bibliography for some other essays is available at
<http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/essays.html>
Please make a visit at his "Land of The Bates Hypertext Archive" at:
<http://www.bates.edu/Faculty/Philosophy%20and%20Religion/Philosophy/htarchi
ve/hypertext.archive.html>
Hoping most educators might take great benefits from the research works of
David Kolb and -if any educator wanted to know more about this Living
Legend and his tremendous works, then please mail me.
Thanking you!
My best regards
Arun Tripathi
Research Scholar
UNI DO, Germany
Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee
National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network
<http://www.americatakingaction.com/board/arun.htm>
Short Online Bio of Arun at: <http://www.iteachnet.com/resume/akumar.html>
Arun Tripathi's Global Education Links at:
<http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/index.html>
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