Archive Cultures: Database Design for
Online Collaboration
18-22 June 2001
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Description:
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devoted to exploring new research in the design of databases
so as to enable online collaboration. We hope the modest scale
and informality of this Institute will allow us to blend wide-ranging
discussion of the relationship of culture to its archives with
hand-on trials of the databases and interfaces developed by
our participants. Perhaps this gathering can contribute to expanding
the cultural, aesthetic and (progressive) political potential
of the database. |
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Schedule:
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Activity: |
Sunday,
17 June
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| 8:00-10:00PM |
Informal get acquainted cocktail party at
the house of Bill Warner and Lizzie MacArthur 2027 Santa Barbara
Street, Santa Barbara, CA (805) 569.5636 (Map) |
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Monday,
18 June |
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| 10:00-10:30: |
Very brief self introductions by all participants
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| 10:30-12:00: |
Morning seminar: Matt Kirschenbaum & Kari
Krause: "Outside the Archive"
Available in Institute Reader. |
| 12:00-1:00: |
Lunch |
| 1:00-2:30: |
Database workshop: George Legrady, "Slippery
Traces" and "Pocket Full of Memories"
George will be present a conceptual overview of two works, ‘Slippery
Traces’ and ‘Pocket Full of Memories’, offer a explanation of
self-organizing maps, and lead a related workshop assignment/project
entailing use of Macromedia Director 8.5.
Descriptions of these two projects are in the Institute Reader. |
| 2:30-5:00: |
Database try and play |
| 7:30-9:30: |
Dinner downtown: Brigitte's,
1325-1327 State St., Santa Barbara, CA, (805) 966.9676 (Map) |
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Tuesday,
19 June |
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| 10:00-10:30: |
Conversation between Dr. Brigitte Steinheider
and George Legrady on the inter-disciplinary development of
"Pockets Full of Memories" |
| 10:30-12:00: |
Morning seminar: Geof Bowker & Leigh Star,
"It's Infrastructure All the Way Down." |
| 12:00-1:00: |
Lunch |
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Database workshop: Sharon Daniel and Mark
Bartlett, "Subtract the Sky".
Sharon and Mark will provide a conceptual and technical over-view
of Subtract the Sky, a collaborative system and web-based authoring
environment for the production of "maps." Subtract the Sky relies
on the epistemological and aesthetic vectors of cartography,
as metaphor and metonym, to produce an archive of alternative
histories. The website will provide communities and individuals
with a map generation system and communication network, that
will allow them to become "cartographers," enabled with the
means to re-map the lines of dominance that organize both the
social-body and the bio-body. Sharon and Mark will lead a 'participatory
design' workshop utilizing the prototype web interfaces, which
allow participants to conduct a variety of searches of the site's
database and add information to it. The goal of the workshop
will be to test the current prototype database and search interfaces
and to explore the map authoring process, by manipulating images,
sounds, and texts from the database. |
| 2:30-5:00: |
Database try and play |
| 7:30-9:30: |
Dinner downtown: Arts
and Letters Cafe, 7 E. Anapamu Santa Barbara, CA (805) 730.1463
(Map)
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| Wednesday,
20 June |
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| 10:00-10:30: |
Review and discussion of "Subtract the Sky" |
| 10:30-12:00: |
Morning seminar: Lev Manovich's leads discussion
of his new book The Language of New Media, focused especially
on Chapter 5, "The Forms", 212-285.
Available in Institute Reader. |
| 12:00-1:00: |
Lunch |
| 1:00-2:30: |
Database workshop: Robert Nideffer, the Proxy
Project
Robert will be providing a conceptual and technical overview
of the PROXY mobile agent management (MAM) system. He will lead
a related workshop giving participants a chance to use the MAM
system while learning how to ingest, define, search, monitor,
display and playfully share their personal data in a distributed
multiuser environment. The more adventurous will be able to
experiment with modifying how the MAM system actually functions.
He will also give a sense of future research and development
directions. |
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Database try and play |
| 7:30-9:30: |
Dinner downtown: Arigato
Sushi, 1225 State St., Santa Barbara, CA (805) 965.6074
(Map) |
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Thursday,
21 June |
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| 10:00-10:30: |
Review and discussion of "The Proxy Project"
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Morning seminar: William Warner, "Projects,
Questions and Ideas":
1: A Digital Cultures Series for UC Press (Liu and Warner);
2: the "Opening the Folder" conference (Meadow and Warner),
March 8-10, 2002;
3: Update on UC Darnet (Daniel and Nideffer);
4: Digital Cultures Graduate Conference, 02.01.02-02.02.02:
Digital Utopia?Digital Dystopia: The Rendering of the Artistic
Object (Sutton, UC/Los Angeles)
5: Matt Ratto, UC/San Diego, short Dissertation Overview: "Connecting
Design Practices to the 'Digital Divide.'"
6: Jeffrey Nyhoff, UCD, short Dissertation Overview
7: "open mike" for ideas, interventions and questions
of any kind related to our week's topic. |
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Lunch |
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Database workshop: Matt Kirschenbaum: "the
Virtual Light Box"
I will offer a conceptual and technical overview of the Virtual
Lightbox, an open source image-based whiteboard application
programmed in Java. The presentation will also serve as an
opportunity to discuss other, closely related topics at the
intersection of digital imaging and electronic scholarship,
from emerging data standards such as JPEG 2000 to the needs
and aims of end-user tools.
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Database try and play |
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Dinner downtown: Bay
Cafe and Fish Market, 131 Anacapa
St., Santa Barbara, CA (805) 963.2215 (Map) |
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Friday,
22 June |
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| 10:00-10:30: |
Review and discussion of "the Virtual Light
Box" |
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Morning seminar:: Mark Meadow, "Back to the
Future: Camillo's Renaissance Memory Theater in the Digital
Age"
In preparation, you may read Frances Yates, The Art of Memory.
Ch. 6: "Renaissance Memory: The Memory Theatre Of Giulio Camillo."
In the Institute Reader. |
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Lunch |
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Database workshop: Alan Liu and English Department
design team: Database Design for the UCSB English Deparment
Alan Liu, Robert Adlington, and Jeremy Douglass will discuss
current projects in the UCSB English Dept. that demonstrate
the use of advanced database-to-Web technology in the normal
research, instructional, and adminstrative work of a humanities
program. The presentation will start with a brief history of
the department's interrelated digital projects; focus on current,
in-house database development; and then premiere the beta version
of the new, SQL Server based Voice of the Shuttle site (development
name: "VoS2"). Individual projects will be demonstrated by Adlington
(the "Magic Book") and Douglass ("the Desk"),
highlighting the relevance of database tech to graduate-student
research. The afternoon workshop will give participants a look
behind the screen at SQL Server and allow them to field-test
VoS2 in preparation for its roll-out, and experiment with the
Magic Book and the Desk. |
| 2:30-5:00: |
Database try and play |
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Dinner/ party downtown: Palace
Cafe, 8 East Cota St. Santa Barbara CA 93101 (805) 966.3133
(Map) |
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Institute Participants:
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Rob Adlington, English, UC Santa
Barbara
Mark Bartlett, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Geof Bowker, Communication, UC San Diego
Sharon Daniel, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
Jeremy Douglass, English, UC Santa Barbara
Robert Hamm, English, UC Santa Barbara
Matt Kirschenbaum, English, U. of Maryland
Kari Kraus, English, U. of Rochester
George Legrady, Art Studio, UC Santa Barbara
Alan Liu, English, UC Santa Barbara
Enrica Lovaglio, Media Arts and Technology Program, UC Santa
Barbara
Lev Manovich, Visual Arts, UC San Diego
Mark Meadow, Art History, UC Santa Barbara
Robert Nideffer, Information Studies and Art Studio, UC Irvine
Jeff Nyhoff, Theater and Dance, UC Davis
Lisa Parks, Film Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Matt Ratto, Communication, UC San Diego
Rita Raley, English, U. of Minnesota/ UC Santa Barbara
Gloria Sutton, Art History, UC Los Angeles
Melissa Stevenson, English, UC Santa
Susan Leigh Star, Communication, UC San Diego
William Warner, English, UC Santa Barbara |
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Media and computer resources
for presentations:
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We will have the following available
for presentations and afternoon workshops: 2 Dell Pentium
laptops, Digital Projector, VCR, DVD, overhead projector,
slide projector, approximately 14 Dell Pentium 2 and 3 workstations,
2 Dell servers. If an Apple computer is desirable for your
presentations, we can rent one per your instructions. We can
also link your Apple portable to our local network.
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Accommodations :
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Best Western South Coast Inn
5620 Calle Real (Patterson & Calle Real: 1 freeway exit from
the UCSB campus)
Goleta, CA 805-967-3200 (Map) |
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Directions:
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Going
from south to north, US 101 passes through the City of Santa
Barbara and just east of UC Santa Barbara. To reach the campus,
take the UC Santa Barbara/Highway 217. Follow 217 (Ward Memorial
Blvd.) to the East Gate of the University. Stop at the gate
and identify yourself: parking personnel will provide you
with a parking permit and direct you to the parking nearest
to South Hall and the Digital Cultures Project. Campus
map
From
the North, exit US 101 at Storke Road/UCSB exit and drive
south (toward the ocean) to a "T" junction with El Colegio
Road. Turn left onto El Colegio Road and you will pass through
the West Gate of the University: stop and collect your parking
pass and directions to South Hall.
Please follow this link
for a local area map, inlcuding campus access. For a map of
the campus proper, follow this link.
(A "scaleable" version of this map
is also available in .pdf format.) To find South Hall, Department
of English, UC Santa Barbara,
locate the bus loop in the middle of the map and walk south
(down on this map) between the old gym and Kerr Hall to the
corner of South
Hall. The Department of English is on the 2nd floor (2607
South Hall). The Transcriptions Studio is at 2509 South Hall.
For more detailed directions, including maps, as well as airline,
bus, and train connections, please consult the UC Santa Barbara
Visitor
Center.
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