The September issue of WIRED Italy features a story by Matteo Bittanti on Mixed Reality Performance: An Evening on Sirikata, an  upcoming performance at the MiTo International festival of Music in Milan, Italy, on September 12 and 13.  The event is presented by the Stanford Humanities Lab [SHL] and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics [CCRMA], Stanford University).  Introduced by Jeffrey T. Schnapp (founder-director, Stanford Humanities Lab), the event will mix real-life performances with virtual worlds, thanks to the work done by the Sirikata team led by Henrik Bennetsen (associate director of the Stanford Humanities Lab) and Chris Platz, the art director.  

Under the head line Taking the Time to Study Speed the Stanford site has a good little piece up on our Speed Limits project:

“Life in the fast lane” is a contemporary phrase we often use to describe exciting, action-packed events in our lives, but just what is the human obsession with speed?  Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford professor of Italian and of Comparative Literature, explores this very question in an exhibit titled, Speed Limits, at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA).

Not coincidentally, Speed Limits, an exploration of speed and its evolution is taking place during the one-hundredth anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s foundation of the Italian Futurist movement. Futurism dismissed the past and its old political and artistic traditions, admiring among other things, speed, industry, and technology’s conquest of nature.  As its founder, Marinetti stated in his Manifesto of Futurism, “The world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.”

The 2.0 version of the Digital Humanities manifesto, a collaborative project of the 2009 UCLA Mellon Seminar on the Digital Humanities, has now been released for commentary and debate.

Three years in the making, Speed Limits was inaugurated at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal on May 19. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami, addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to t

How can knowledge, research, and pedagogical practice in the arts and humanities drive the design and development of emerging digital media (and vice versa)?

Just posted the following on the Metaverse U Conference website:

I am very happy to announce that the next Metaverse U Conference also will take place at Stanford University. We have booked a great that holds about 150 people so we are aiming for something more focused for this second iteration of the conference.

Please join us as we discuss liminal spaces, Afghan culture, the role of artists, and the future of South Asia:

Sunday, March 29, 2009 
3:00 pm film screening - 3:30 pm discussion

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Screening Room
701 Mission St @ 3rd
San Francisco, CA 94103

$7 General Admission