Fri, Nov 17th: Wendy Chun on Software

For November, the NEW MEDIA WORKING GROUP will be meeting with Wendy Chun and discussing her article, "On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge," as a framework for visiting the new exhibition "Radical Software: Art, Technology and the Bay Area Underground" at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco.

** Note new date/time/location! **
THIS FRIDAY November 17th
12:00 to 1:00 pm -- meet to discuss essay by Wendy Chun, linked below
1:00 to 2:30 pm -- meet Wendy Chun
Rhetoric Lounge, 7th floor (F/G) Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Wendy Chun is Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. The NMWG will convene to discuss "On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge" by Wendy Chun (grey room 18,
winter 2005, 27-52) preceding a grad student meeting with her:

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/people/chun/papers/software.pdf

Tuesday, Nov. 28th, 7:30 to 9:00 pm;
California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary
Arts, SF. Attend opening of "Radical Software" exhibition:
http://www.wattis.org/exhibitions/2006/software/