MoMo Kampala – Oct. 8th – Technology for Poetics and Politics
Posted on: October 2, 2012 – Filed under: Kampala
You are cordially invited to How technologies can serve the poetics and politics of everyday life, hosted and sponsored by Victoria University Monday 8th October.
Technology is usually framed in terms of efficiency and productivity. Happily, life has much more to offer, and paying attention to the particular, the ephemeral, and the contentious, can lead to significant innovation. The Center for Civic Media built technologies for geographic communities, and resulted in well-known enterprises such as publiclaboratory.org andsourcemap.com. His other research group, the Computing Culture group, focused on technologies of poetry and politics.
Prof Chris Csikszentmihalyi will describe the work of his two research groups at the premiere technical campus in the United States, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and how they used inspiration from art, activism, and politics to create popular new sociotechnical systems.
An Xiao Mina, a renowned expert on Internet memes, will also talk about the role of memes in both China and the English-speaking world. Mina is known for her work as designer, as well as her contributions to the studio of Ai Wei Wei. Mina is currently a graduate student in the Media Design Practices department at Art Center.
Csikszentmihalyi and Mina are part of a larger group of researchers from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. They are working with UNICEF to prototype new designs for youth engagement and expression, so they will also talk about the projects they will be conducting in Uganda, and what they are hoping to learn from the local technology community.
Please register at: http://momoklatechpoeticspolitics.eventbrite.com
Sure to be one of the highlights of the year!