Lab Manager 2013

Academic Lab Manager Conference June 17-19, 2013

Guest Speakers

 

 

Richard Holeton

Keynote speaker

Richard Holeton is Director of Academic Computing Services at Stanford University, part of Stanford Libraries. He previously taught for 12 years in Stanford’s writing program and English Department. His scholarship includes articles, book chapters, conference talks, and college textbooks such as Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age (McGraw-Hill, 1998). He currently serves as co-leader of the EDUCAUSE Learning Space Design Constituent Group and on the Higher Education Advisory Board for the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project. His fiction includes the critically-recognized hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (Eastgate Systems, 2001), a variety of other electronic literature, and award-winning short stories. He’s winner of a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a past California Arts Council fiction fellow. Holeton holds a BA from Stanford University and MA and MFA degrees from San Francisco State University.

 

 

Rob Ray

Welcome Reception Speaker, Olympia Ballroom

Rob Ray makes site specific electronic installations, wondrous public games and experimental videos. He has recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA from Chicago via Rensselaer’s Electronic Arts MFA Program in Troy, NY. Rob’s Pedal to the Mental interactive disorienteering adventure was included in the BIKE BOX locative media exhibition at Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn. His most recent workshop, Strange Sounds in Strange Places, was commissioned and created in residency at the Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester, UK. From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founder and head curator of DEADTECH electronic arts center in Chicago, IL. DEADTECH’s unique curatorial vision, residency program, and exhibition and workshop spaces hosted electronic artists and performers including the Beige Programming Ensemble, Trevor Paglen, Norman White, Kevin Drumm, T.V. Pow and Kazuyuki K. Null.