LECTURES

university lecture series:


Nov. 10 - CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY / Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert, directors of the new Center for Artistic Activism / "Political Expressionism" and Other Fallacies of Political Art
Nov. 15 - HUMANITIES CENTER LECTURE / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, DePauw University, and a leading authority on science fiction / Title TBA


school of design:

Nov. 01: JESSICA ROSENKRANTZ & JESSIE ROSENBERG, Nervous System
Nervous System is a studio working at the intersection of science, art and technology. This lecture is sponsored through a partnership between the School of Design, Studio for Creative Inquiry and the Digital Fab Lab.

Nov. 28: RICHARD SENNETT, Author of 'The Craftsman'
World renowned author Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and the London School of Economics. This lecture is sponsored through a partnership with the School of Architecture.

February: PANEL DISCUSSION, Local designers
A panel of local designers will discuss the topic 'How to Design the Future'. Details to follow.

March 27: CANDY CHANG, Artist/Designer, Global Ted Fellow, 2009
Candy Chang likes to make cities more comfortable for people. Her background in design, urban planning and street art have informed her projects which redefine public spaces to incite dialog and engage citizens with their city and each other.

April 11: VICTOR MARGOLIN, Professor, Design History, University of Illinois
Noted design historian Victor Margolin is the editor of Design Issues and was the first person in the United States to receive a PhD in design history. Author of the books 'The Politics of the Artificial' and 'The Idea of Design.

school of art:

CAROL CONDE & KARL BEVERIDGE - Thurs. Nov 3 / 5pm, Kresge Theatre

co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
CAROL CONDE and KARL BEVERIDGE are a Toronto-based duo who have an amazing track record of socially concerned and politically committed art making, which usefully contributes to interpretations of Contextual Practice. The artists will present "Documentary Fictions", an overview of their photographic projects depicting environmental issues, health care, the economy, and cultural production. Since 1975, their work has presented stories about labor, resistance and its representation. Most often working in collaboration with members of the communities depicted in their photographs, Condé and Beveridge create narrative series via staged reconstructions employing detailed sets, collage and digital technology. Their work also references various art historical and cultural practices to create a critical commentary on the function and understanding of contemporary cultures. They have exhibited internationally in community spaces, art galleries, and museums: most recently in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Holland. Condé and Beveridge have been active in several labor arts initiatives including the Mayworks Festival in Toronto and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.

school of architecture:


Antonino Saggio

MONDAY 07 NOVEMBER
7:00 KRESGE THEATRE, CMU
Space, Time and Information. The IT Revolution in Architecture, a Paradigm Shift.

Richard Sennett

Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture

MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER
6:00 CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
New York University // London School of Economics

HCI: http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/news/seminar



Future Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business
Janaki Kumar
Senior Director, User Experience at SAP Labs
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)


Media, Meaning and Computation: Expressive Intelligence and the Future of Playable Media
Michael Mateas
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 4:30pm
Gates-Hillman Center 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)

Interactive Learning: Combining Machine Learning Strategies with Humans in the Loop
Burr Settles
Postdoctoral Fellow, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 3305


Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Ron Baecker
Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab), University of Toronto
Friday, November 4, 2011 3:30pm
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Maudlin Auditorium)

HCII Town Hall Meeting-NO SEMINAR
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:00pm


Feminism and HCI: Intersections and Opportunities
Shaowen Bardzell
Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics and Computing, University of Indiana
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)


Technology that Motivates Creative Problem Solving
Elizabeth Gerber
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:00pm
Newell Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)


The Playground of the Internet: Where Social Science and Design are BFFs
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Principal Reserach Scientist, Yahoo! Research
Monday, December 5, 2011 4:30pm
Gates-Hillman Center 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)

Robotics Institute: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/event_calendar.html?event_type=seminars&menu_id=242

RI Seminar: Robust motion planning for walking robots and robotic birds
Russ Tedrake
Associate Professor, MIT
October 28, 2011, 3:30PM - 4:30 PM, NSH 1305

RI Seminar: Technology in Support of Graceful Aging
Ronald Baecker
Professor, University of Toronto
November 04, 2011, 3:30 - 4:00 PM, NSH 1305

RI Seminar: From Sorcery to Science: how Hollywood Physics impacts the Sciences
Eitan Grinspun
Associate Professor, Columbia
November 11, 2011,

Mike Gleicher
University of Wisconsin
November 18, 2011,

Larry Zitnick
Researcher, MSR
November 21, 2011, NSH 1507

Lydia Kavraki
Rice University
December 02, 2011,

Frank Dellart
December 02, 2011, 1:00pm, NSH 1507

Yong Jae Lee
PhD Student, UT Austin
December 07, 2011, 3:00pm, NSH 1507

Ian Davis
Rockstar Games New England
December 09, 2011,