[4eyes] Eric Paulos lecture on Monday March 9, ESB 2001, 12pm-1:30pm

[Matthew Turk]

This MAT seminar on Monday is likely to be interesting:

 

From: George Legrady [mailto:legrady at mat.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 9:31 PM
To: Upamanyu Madhow; Yasamin Mostofi; Tobias Hollerer; Matthew Turk; Marko Peljhan
Cc: George Legrady
Subject: Please attend Eric Paulos lecture on Monday March 9, ESB 2001, 12pm-1:30pm

 

Dear Search Committee, 

 

Please attend the Eric Paulos lecture if you can. From the artistic perspective, Eric is the type of hybrid engineer-artist that would be the ideal fit for the MAT Physical Computing position. He is unfortunately not available. But he nonetheless serves a crucial role in providing an exemplary model between engineering and artistic exploration. Eric worked closely with John Canny and Ken Goldberg at Berkeley for his PhD. 

 

March 9, 2015, 12pm-1:30pm, at Engineering Science Building, Room 2001,:

 

Hybrid Ecologies: Disobedient Objects, Unexpected Landscapes, and Human Wonderment

 

Eric Paulos, Assistant Professor,

Co-director CITRIS Invention Lab
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
Berkeley Center for New Media,
University of California, Berkeley

 

Abstract: This talk will present and critique a new body of evolving collaborative work at the intersection of art, computer science, and design research. It will present an argument for hybrid materials, methods, and artifacts as strategic tools for insight and innovation within computing culture. It will explore and demonstrate the value of urban computing, citizen science, and maker culture as opportunistic landscapes for intervention, micro-volunteerism, and a new expert amateur. Finally, it will present and question emerging materials and strategies from the perspective of engineering, design, and new media.

 

Bio: Eric Paulos is the founder and director of the Tactical Hybrid Ecologies group and an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and faculty within the Berkeley Center for New Media. Previously, Eric held the Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor Chair at Carnegie Mellon University where he was faculty within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. He also founded the Urban Atmospheres group at Intel Research where a body of early urban computing projects were developed. Eric’s work spans a broad range of research territory from robotics, urban computing, citizen science, design research, critical making, and new media art. Eric received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley but his real apprenticeship was earned through over two decades of explosive, excruciatingly loud, and quasi-legal activities with a band of misfits at Survival Research Laboratories. http://www.paulos.net/

 

This event is open to public, coffee will be served. Please join us and spread the word!

 

 

George Legrady
Dept. Chair, Media Arts & Technology

Director, Experimental Visualization Lab

University of California, Santa Barbara

Phelps Hall 3309
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Cell 323-346-7619
legrady at mat.ucsb.edu

http://www.mat.ucsb.edu

 

 

 





 

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