Hi all,

Forwarding the email blast for the event I've been organizing, Mistakes Were Made 2.0 @ NYU April 15. Eden Medina is keynote! Hope to see you there...  -L

Friday, April 15, 2016 | 1:30-6:00 PM 
NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
239 Greene Street, Floor 8

It’s an old adage that journalists write the first draft of history, and historians compose the second. But what happens after that? Now in its second year, “Mistakes Were Made” proposes that getting history wrong is the inevitable precondition of historical research, as each generation of writers explores that gaps and ghosts left by the previous. Turning these insights on the swiftly obsolescing world of computer history, this event gathers emerging scholars challenging traditional technology narratives, and pairs them with creative coders, new media artists, tech innovators, and other members of computer culture’s past and present “fringe.”
 

SPEAKERS

Eden Medina (keynote)
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University


Marisa Bowe
Editor-in-Chief of WORD, Executive Producer of Sissyfight

Tega Brain
Artist and environmental engineer, SUNY-Purchase

Peter Sachs Collopy
Media historian and postdoctoral researcher, University of Southern California 

Martha Poon
Research Fellow, Data & Society


SCHEDULE

1:30-3:00 pm  Marisa Bowe + Peter Sachs Collopy
3:00-4:30 pm  Tega Brain + Martha Poon
4:30-5:30 pm  Eden Medina, Keynote “The Promise and Peril of Computer Technology in the Area of Human Rights”
5:30-6:00 pm  Reception


Hosted by the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, with generous support from the NYU Center for the Humanities and the NYU Libraries. Designed and produced by Laine Nooney, Erica Robles-Anderson and Shari Wolk.
 



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Laine Nooney
www.lainenooney.com

DM @ LMC @ GT
Assistant Professor