[Peace] Technology and culture writers at Unit One/Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

Please forward widely: 

 

Don't forget to catch Elaine Brown this week! And then we have do-it-yourself techies/Wired contributors/futurists/webloggers/fringe culture explorers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz in-residence. Technology and culture writers, David Pescovitz and Mark Frauenfelder will be Guests-in-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall October 16 – October 20. They will be speaking and doing workshops every night of their residency. All events are open to the public and take place in the South Rec room of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana.

 

Sunday, October 16 

8:00pm - Introduction to a Do-it-Yourself Lifestyle and Seeking Wonder in Life's Cabinet of Curiosity

 

Monday, October 17

7:00pm - How To Predict The Future - a presentation about futurism by Institute for the Future researcher, David Pescovitz 

8:00pm – Man in Space – The space program, scientific optimism, and
 Nazi scientists? 

 

Tuesday, October 18

7:00PM - Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism Art - History of the Low Brow art movement 

9:00pm - How To Start A Micro-University - Based on Harrison Owen's innovative "Open Space" conferencing approach. Ad-hoc mini-courses and discussion with a one-night "course catalog" created by the participants

 

Wednesday, October 19

7:00pm – Our Culture of Coercion - Viewing of "PBS Frontline: The Persuaders" and discussion about our culture of coercion 

9:00pm - Makers' Manifesto and Maker's Bill of Rights - Discussion of the arms-race between makers and manufacturers

 

Thursday, October 20

7:00pm - Life After Peak Oil - Realities and plans for the coming energy shortage.

9:00pm - The History of Music's Future, a listening experience - David will DJ a set of music from the early history of electronic/computer music accompanied by surrealist films, a "chill out" party to end the residency

 

About Mark and David: 


Mark Frauenfelder is a weblogger, illustrator, editor, and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of MAKE, a do-it-yourself technology magazine, and co-editor and founder of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing which has 300,000 daily visitors. He was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998 and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online. His articles about technology and culture have appeared in Wired magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, Playboy, Business 2.0 and The Industry Standard. Frauenfelder co-edited The Happy Mutant Handbook and wrote and illustrated The Mad Professor, a book of science experiments for kids. He also wrote The Computer: An Illustrated History, and The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept and Dangerous, People, Places and Things on Earth. He designed the CD cover and video box cover for Billy Idol's "Cyberpunk" album. He is also a ukulele fanatic.

 

David Pescovitz thinks and writes about technology, science, and culture. He is the writer-in-residence for UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and the Berkeley Sciences, co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and an affiliate of the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research organization in Palo Alto. He is the co-author of the book Reality Check, based on his long- running futurist column in Wired magazine where he is still a contributing writer. Pescovitz has also written for Scientific American, Popular Science, MAKE, Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and New Scientist, among many other publications. In 2002, he won the Foresight Prize in Communication, recognizing excellence in educating the public and research community about nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. His explorations of fringe culture are featured in the Happy Mutant Handbook and The 'Zine Reader. 

 

Laura Haber

Program Coordinator of Unit One

University of Illinois

68 Allen Hall (MC 050)

1005 W. Gregory

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 244-2317

lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu

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