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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 online
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