Due to the Collaborative Future-Making symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday, there is no K3 seminar this week. But we will return with two seminars next week, both taking place in the K3 Studio, fifth floor of Niagara:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday,\nNovember 18 at 15.15-17.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarah Fox, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University: <\/strong>Looking Out from the Stall: Hygiene Resources, Maintenance, and the Internet of Things<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday,\nNovember 20 at 10.15-12.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Appelbaum, Senior Professor of English Literature, K3: <\/strong>The Renaissance Discovery of Violence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Below you\nwill find abstracts and short bios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Fox: <\/strong>Hygiene Resources, Maintenance, and the Internet of Things<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restrooms\nmay appear far from contemporary sites of innovation. But over the past decade,\ncorporations and public institutions have begun developing internet of things\n(IoT) technologies for these spaces in ways that increasingly define people’s\nexperiences of hygiene resources. Drawing on a 3-year multi-sited ethnographic\nstudy, Sarah Fox will discuss how digital technologies entwine with existing\nforms of collaborative labor to sharpen managerial control of public restroom\naccess and maintenance. Informed by this work, she will describe her\ncollaboration with local activists and custodial staff to reimagine these\ntechnologies. Across 18 months throughout the city of Seattle, she developed\nand deployed a networked sensor designed to support the needs of people without\nregular access to everyday hygiene resources. This work highlights and contends\nwith a tendency for IoT devices to prioritize concerns for cost-reducing\nefficiencies and regulatory techniques, rather than support collective\nresponsibility\u2014a concern of increasing importance as design and human-computer\nscholarship attends to data ethics in public life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Fox\nis a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer\nInteraction Institute. Her research focuses on how technological artifacts\nchallenge or propagate social exclusions, by examining existing systems and\nbuilding alternatives. Her work has earned awards in leading computing venues\nincluding ACM CSCW, CHI, and DIS, and has been featured in the Journal of Peer\nProduction and New Media and Society. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Centered\nDesign & Engineering from the University of Washington and has worked in\ndesign research at Microsoft Research, Google, and Intel Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Appelbaum, Senior Professor of English Literature, K3: <\/strong>The Renaissance Discovery of Violence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Violence has a\nhistory, affected by factors ranging from technological developments to the\nstructure of the household. The representation of violence in art and\nliterature has a history too. In the first place, it documents changes in the\nhistory of violence. In the second place, it plays a role in moulding\nsensibilities, of calling attention to the uses and abuses of violence, of\nexamining heroism, perfidy and victimhood, of bringing spectators and readers\nnot only to see but also to feel what violence is, and of exploring what we can\nor ought to feel about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this\nintroductory presentation of my VR-funded project on the Renaissance Discovery\nof Violence, I call attention to writers like William Shakespeare and Matteo\nBandello, an Italian novelist, as well as to painters like Michelangelo\nCaravaggio. I argue that beginning in the fifteenth century, if not sooner,\nviolence was de-normalized in Europe \u2013 writers and painters began addressing\nviolence as an exception in human affairs. In addition, representations of\nviolence were subjected to aesthetic reflexivity. In other words, violence\nincreasingly came to be seen as an expression of a grievous will to power which\nneeded to be tempered with self-restraint and observed, at least sometimes,\nwith horror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in New\nYork City and educated at the University of Chicago and the University of California,\nBerkeley, Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at\nUppsala University and Senior Professor in Arts and Communication at Malm\u00f6\nUniversity. Currently the Erik Allardt Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for\nAdvanced Studies, he is the author of numerous essays on literature, culture\nand history, and six books, most recently Terrorism Before the Letter:\nMythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland and France 1559-1642<\/em>\n(Oxford, 2015) and The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film<\/em>\n(Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). In addition to completing his project on\nRenaissance violence, he is editing a volume for Bloomsbury, A Cultural\nHistory of Myth in the Renaissance<\/em> and a special issue for Studia\nNeophilologica<\/em>, \u201cIs economic inequality also a literary problem?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Due to the Collaborative Future-Making symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday, there is no K3 seminar this week. But we will return with two seminars next week, both taking place in the K3 Studio, fifth floor of Niagara: On Monday, November … Continue reading