Two public programs on digital imaging and technology and their uses in surveillance and contemporary animation will be presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, Oct. 6, as part of the ATLAS Speaker Series.
David Burns, assistant professor of 3D animation at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, will present "Visit-US and the Virtual Panopticon" from 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. in room 199 of the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building. Burns will examine how agencies use digital technology to create virtual border controls and how technology and digital imaging can be used to persuade citizens and visitors to behave in certain ways.
From 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Burns will present "Contemporary Animation Media Arts Practice: Selected Work" in room 100 of the new ATLAS building. He will examine animation media practice, in addition to screening and discussing selected work.
Both events are free and open to the public and will be followed by discussion. Burns' talks are sponsored by the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society, or ATLAS, the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the Arts and Sciences Dean's Fund for Excellence.
The ATLAS Speaker Series is supported by a generous gift from ATLAS Institute Board member Idit Harel Caperton, CEO and founder of MaMaMedia Inc., and her daughter, Anat Harel, a 2003 CU graduate who was an ATLAS Technology, Arts and Media student.
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For further information on the Oct. 6 lectures contact Anne Bliss of the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at (303) 492-4478 or anne.bliss@colorado.edu.