Saturday, May 12
2635 South Hall, UCSB
Presentations (PowerPoint files and videos) are in most cases restricted to Transliteracies participants (developers login) due to the in-progress nature of materials and to intellectual-property issues.
9 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Rita Raley (.mov | .wmv)
9:15 am – “On Reading Software”
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin (.ppt | .mov | .wmv)
9:45 am – Gaming
- Ayhan Aytes, “agoraXchange: Writing the next Constitution” (.mov | .wmv)
- Michael Treanor, “The Rhetoric of Newsgaming” (.ppt | .mov | .wmv)
- Irene Chien, “Reading Katamari Damacy.”
- William Huber, “Interface, Play and Performance in the Virtual Spaces of Final Fantasy XI” (.mov | .wmv)
- Discussion (.mov | .wmv)
12:00 – 1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 – Text, Type, Interfaces
- Kim Knight, “Cognition and the Eclecticism of Interfaces” (.ppt | .mov | .wmv)
- Lisa Swanstrom, “Reading as Gathering” (.ppt | research report | .mov | .wmv)
- Kate Marshall, “New Reading Topographies” (.mov | .wmv)
- Brooke Belisle, “Reading Interfaces: NewsReader and Valence” (Valence research report | News Reader research report | .mov | .wmv)
- Discussion (.mov | .wmv)
3:30 – 4:00 pm – Break
4:00 pm – Review of Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface” (HASTAC report)
- Nicole Starosielski and Irene Chien (research paper | .mov | .wmv)
4:30 pm – Presentation of Vectors Proposal “Unbound: An Alternative Genealogy of the Reading Interface”
- Ayhan Aytes, Brooke Belisle, Nicole Starosielski, Lisa Swanstrom (.pdf | .mov | .wmv)
5:00 pm – “Transliteracies and Social Computing”
- Alan Liu (.mov | .wmv)
5:30 pm – Vectors for Past, Present, and Future Research
- Group discussion led by Rita Raley and Nicole Starosielski (.mov | .wmv)
7:00 pm – Dinner (off site)