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MCN/CIMI Joint Conference Explores Key Applications that Shape Museum
Visitors' Experience

Real Life: Virtual Experiences
New Connections for Museum Visitors
October 24-27, 2001
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Early Registration Deadline is September 15th
Register on-line http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/index.htm

Experts Speak
MCN and CIMI are pleased to announce the opening and closing plenary speakers.

Genevieve Bell, is a design ethnographer within the Intel Architecture Labs
at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. Her group, Peoples and Practices Research,
is responsible for finding new users and new uses for technology using
social science research methods. Genevieve has conducted ethnographic
fieldwork in households across Western Europe, China and the United States.
She is interested in the intersections of emerging technologies and social
practice as they occur within domestic and public spaces. Prior to joining
Intel in August of 1998, Genevieve taught anthropology and Native American
studies at Stanford University. She has conducted fieldwork with indigenous
peoples in the US and Australia. Genevieve holds a PhD in cultural
anthropology from Stanford University and a combined AB/MA from Bryn Mawr
College in Philadelphia.

Lise Anne Couture, is an architect and principle of Asymptote Architecture,
New York, New York.  Asymptote's work ranges from experimental
installations and computer generated environments to building design and
urban planning.  Most recently, Asymptote participated in the exhibit,
01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, and designed a large scale computer generated environment for the New
York Stock Exchange.  Future projects include the design and implementation
of the Guggenheim Virtual Museum, a fully interactive multi-dimensional
digital architecture accessible as both actual building and through the
Internet.

Second generation hand-held devices...immersive environments....wearable
technologies...smart architecture...rich multimedia...user-centered design.

Robin Dowden and Angela Spinazze, Conference Co-chairs