WSU Vancouver Presents Digital Tech and Culture Brown Bag Lectures

VANCOUVER, Wash. – The Washington State University Vancouver Digital Technology and Culture program will present a weekly brown bag speaker series highlighting DTC faculty research beginning Nov. 2. 

 

The presentations will be from 12 to 12:50 p.m. each Thursday in Room 1 of the WSU Vancouver Multimedia Classroom building.

 

Anyone interested in knowing more about the DTC program, curious about what digital media is, or how digital technology relates to culture is welcome to attend one or all of these talks.

 

John Barber will inaugurate the series Nov. 2 with “Remediating Richard Brautigan:  A Pacific Northwest Writer Finds a New Home on the World Wide Web,” a lecture focusing on the development of Barber’s internationally acclaimed Web site, the Brautigan Bibliography and Archive.

 

The following week, Harrison Higgs will present “Air Awareness and Ice Feel,” on Nov. 9, explaining his work with digital photography, printmaking, and mixed media.

 

Dene Grigar will present “Narrative Performance and Emergent Technologies,” addressing digital media, motion tracking technology and the future of storytelling in the early age of computers, on Nov. 16. If time allows, she will give a demonstration of the technology in the new motion-tracking lab located on the WSU Vancouver campus.

 

For more information on the DTC program, visit https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/dtc.

 

WSU Vancouver offers 14 bachelor’s degrees, 9 master’s degrees, 1 doctorate degree and more than 35 fields of study. The campus is located at 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave., east of the 134th Street exit from either I-5 or I-205. Visit WSU Vancouver on the Web at https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu.

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