Friday, April 15, 2016 | 1:30-6:00 PM
NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
239 Greene Street, Floor 8It’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 UniversityMarisa BoweEditor-in-Chief of WORD, Executive Producer of SissyfightTega BrainArtist and environmental engineer, SUNY-PurchasePeter Sachs CollopyMedia historian and postdoctoral researcher, University of Southern California Martha PoonResearch Fellow, Data & Society
SCHEDULE
1:30-3:00 pm Marisa Bowe + Peter Sachs Collopy3:00-4:30 pm Tega Brain + Martha Poon4:30-5:30 pm Eden Medina, Keynote “The Promise and Peril of Computer Technology in the Area of Human Rights”5:30-6:00 pm ReceptionHosted 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.