Event: Discussions on Networked Publics: Place, New York 3/25/2010

The Network Architecture Lab continues “Discussions on Networked Publics,” a series of panels examining how technology and social changes are transforming the public realm, held at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s [GSAPP’s] Studio-X Soho Facility, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York City.

The second panel, on “place” will occur on March 25 at 6:30 pm.

The panelists are:

Amanda McDonald Crowley (Executive Directory of Eyebeam Art + Technology Center)

Douglas Gauthier (GSAPP faculty, architect and principal of Gauthier Associates)

Christina Ray (artist, curator, co-founder of Conflux Festival)

Mark Shepard (Buffalo University faculty, architect, artist, curator)

Kevin Slavin (game designer, co-founder Area/Code)

Tim Ventimiglia (architect and museum designer, associate at Ralph Applebaum Associates)

Kazys Varnelis, director of GSAPP’s Network Architecture Lab will moderate.

“Discussions on Networked Publics” extends the analysis of contemporary culture in the book Networked Publics, published in 2008 by the MIT Press and edited by Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis. More on the book at http://networkedpublics.org. Copies of the book will be for sale at the event.

The event will be broadcast live worldwide via ustream.tv at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/discussions-on-network-publics

Viewers who can’t make it in person are encouraged to submit questions and comments live during the show to @Columbia_Netlab on Twitter.

Video from the event will be archived on Vimeo and iTunes.

Discussions on Networked Publics Series

Panel 1. Culture (archive)

9 February, 6.30

featuring: Michael Kubo, Michael Meredith, Will Prince, Enrique Ramirez, David Reinfurt, and Mimi Zeiger

Panel 2. Place

25 March, 6.30

featuring: Amanda McDonald Crowley, Douglas Gauthier, Christina Ray, Mark Shepard, Kevin Slavin, and Tim Ventimiglia

Panel 3. Politics

13 April, 6.30

featuring special guest Stephen Graham

Panel 4. Infrastructure

4 May, 6.30

Free and open to the public

RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu

Events begin at 6:30 unless otherwise noted.

Studio-X New York

180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

1 train to Houston Street

[Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]