digital

June 5: Web-book chronicles history of digital literature

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A Web-book showing the history of electronic literature will launch online noon-2 p.m. Monday, June 1, with live tweeting and blogging by creators Dene Grigar, associate professor at Washington State University Vancouver, and Stuart Moulthrop, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Motorola to show mobile data capture, wireless infrastructure

TRI-CITIES – The Motorola Technology Tour is coming to WSU Tri-Cities to put on a demonstrationof its mobile data capture and wireless infrastructure, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 20, in the main parking lot along Sprout Road.   Hosted in its Motorola Solutions Truck, DataPro Solutions provide seminars in the morning on how mobility can and has improved companies […]

Digital artists-in-residence perform live installation display

VANCOUVER – The Digital Technology and Culture Program at WSU Vancouver presents multimedia artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall, talking about VJ Fleet, an interactive sound and video installation involving a fleet of customized cars. Their performance will be at 5 p.m. Nov. 22 in front of the WSU Vancouver Administration Building. This event […]

Professor discusses digital Mukurtu archive

PULLMAN – Dr. Kimberly Christen, assistant professor in comparative ethnic studies at WSU will be discussing the Mukurtu Wumparrarni-kari Archive project on the BBC radio program “Digital Planet,” airing on January 29, 2008. The Mukurtu project, a browser-based digital archive, was built around the cultural materials and personal and community photos of the Warumungu Aboriginal […]

New digital divide threatens U.S. schools

PULLMAN, Wash.—Schools across the United States are threatened by a different kind of “digital divide,” according to Dr. Eric Anctil of Washington State University. This digital divide isn’t between those who have access to technology and those who don’t. Rather, it is between students on one side and the faculty and administration on the other. […]

Alumni-owned company establishes scholarship

VANCOUVER- Washington State University Vancouver alumni Joe Fryer and Everett Ulbricht, owners of Whizzo Technologies, have pledged money for a scholarship for students in the WSU Vancouver Digital Technology and Culture program. Fryer graduated in 2003 from the DTC program. Ulbricht graduated with a degree in Public Affairs in 2002. The $1,000 Whizzo Technologies Scholarship […]

Information Technology Forum to go on March 12-14

WSU information technology staff will have the opportunity to gain professional development and networking opportunities by attending the second annual WSU Information Technology Forum, titled “Being Digital in 2006: Perils and Possibilities,” March 12-14.Although the event is free, attendees must register in advance on the Information Systems website, http://infotech.wsu.edu/vpis/ITSForumReg.asp. The deadline to register is March […]

March 16 broadcast looks at digital libraries

What are digital libraries? Are they more accessible than traditional libraries? Is there still a need for physical books and journals — and new library buildings? These and related questions will be addressed in a national satellite broadcast produced at 10:30 a.m.-noon Wednesday, March 16, in FSHN T-101. The WSU community is invited to be […]

Student art exhibit features digital printmaking

The WSU Vancouver Student Services Building Gallery is featuring student work from Fine Arts 471: Digital and Photo Processes for Printmaking. The technique makes use of the computer at some stage, but includes hand-pulled intaglios, lithographs, collographs, pigmented inkjet prints, as well as cross-hybrids of these print processes. The exhibit will be on display through […]