
Part of a series: How Storytelling Can Change the World, Fall 2009 — Fall 2010
5D | Design is Change - Event 2: The Language of World Building
7-10 pm, December 3, 2009
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles
PLEASE RSVP and email inquires to 5D AT designischange DOT org
OVERVIEW: 5D | Design is Change
Design is Change (DisC) explores and nurtures entertainment and narrative cross-media’s role and impact as social change and humanitarian designers in world building.
DisC is creating conversations and questions about dynamic, mission-driven design, emerging technologies and narrative media. These conversations also investigate influences and responses, and perceived and real-world outcomes resulting from convergent media’s accelerating shift towards a scenario-driven immersive world.
5D is co-producing with partner United Field Corporation an event series starting Fall 2009 called, “How Storytelling Can Change the World,” scheduled at MoMA in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, bringing together designers and thinkers with leading humanitarians and social change organizations, to create innovative and previously unimagined collaborations.
DisC 2: The Language of World Building
DisC 02, co-produced by 5D and UFC, and curated by Paulynn Cue, features JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, creator of the AlloSphere, a unique scientific instrument for experiencing multi-dimensional data, is joined by Kevin Carpenter of Hanson Robotics, and Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist and New Media Consultant to discuss design of nondialectic language, its use in narrative technologies and media, and its impact on human understanding.
Speakers:
ALLOSPHERE
The AlloSphere is a one-of-a-kind scientific instrument for visualizing, hearing and exploring complex multi-dimensional data providing insight essential for progress in critical areas of science and engineering. It is differentiated from conventional virtual reality environments by its seamless surround-view capabilities and its focus on multiple sensory modalities and interaction. http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/
HANSON ROBOTICS
from their website: Hanson Robotics realizes biologically-inspired robots, that is, machines that behave like living creatures. Specifically, we seek to model the behavior and movements of people in robots that act and react virtually indistinguishably from their human counterparts. Our social robots are capable of mimicking not just human emotions and facial expressions, but eye contact, face recognition, and naturalistic spoken conversation. We feel that these devices can serve to help to investigate what it means to be human, both scientifically and artistically. http://www.hansonrobotics.com/index.html
AMBER CASE
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and New Media Consultant employing anthropological methods to study the interaction between humans and computers. Amber specializes in information architecture, usability, online productivity, strategy, and ground-breaking communication methods.
http://oakhazelnut.makerlab.com/about/
Moderated by Paulynn Cue
Credits and Information:
5D | Design is Change (DisC) curated by Paulynn Cue, www.paulynn.com and produced by 5D.
DisC’s Presenting Sponsor: Unified Field Corporation www.unifiedfieldbank.com
DisC’s Media Sponsor: Next American City www.americancity.org
5D | Future of Immersive Design is a leading entertainment industry design, technology and innovation conference and is the platform for exploring the present and future of immersive design, and its impact on all aspects of the creative media space. www.5Dconference.com
HAMMER LECTURES / PANELS
This event is presented in conjunction with The Hammer Museum Education Department – Lectures / Panels Series
http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/365
The Hammer Museum
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, California
Open to public. Free of charge. First come first served. Tickets required and available at Billy Wilder Theater Box Office 1 hour prior to event.
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