According to D. Fox Harrell, who coined the term, the notion of phantasmal media is about “artful uses of computational systems. Phantasmal media works both create mental imagery and challenge and provoke users' idealized cognitive models by enabling active participation imbued with culture and critical awareness...computing to enable new imaginative possibilities and attempting to understand the cognitive origins of these possibilities are the central concerns."
D. Fox Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media, joint in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Comparative Media Studies Program, and in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.. His research explores the relationship between imaginative cognition, digital media arts, and computation, developing new forms of interactive narrative, gaming, social computing, and other types of culturally engaged AI-based media. Harrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." He is currently completing a book,Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, for the MIT Press.
Harrell holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. His other degrees include a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunication from New York University, and a B.F.A. in Art, B.S. in Logic and Computation, and minor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked as an interactive television producer and as a game designer. He is currently completing a book, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, under contract with MIT Press.
Alondra Nelson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG). Her areas of specialization include race and ethnicity in the U.S.; gender and kinship; socio-historical studies of medicine, science and technology; and social and cultural theory. Nelson's research focuses on how science and its applications shape the social world. With Thuy Linh Tu, Nelson edited the influential collection Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life (New York University Press, 2001), and is the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Health and Race (forthcoming, University of California Press), the first book-length exploration of the radical organization's health-focused activities that included the formation of a network of neighborhood clinics, the implementation of genetic screening programs, and intervention into debates over the medicalization of violence.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 7:30 pm.
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus.
Free and open to the public
D. Fox Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media, joint in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Comparative Media Studies Program, and in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.. His research explores the relationship between imaginative cognition, digital media arts, and computation, developing new forms of interactive narrative, gaming, social computing, and other types of culturally engaged AI-based media. Harrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." He is currently completing a book,Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, for the MIT Press.
Harrell holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. His other degrees include a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunication from New York University, and a B.F.A. in Art, B.S. in Logic and Computation, and minor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked as an interactive television producer and as a game designer. He is currently completing a book, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, under contract with MIT Press.
Alondra Nelson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG). Her areas of specialization include race and ethnicity in the U.S.; gender and kinship; socio-historical studies of medicine, science and technology; and social and cultural theory. Nelson's research focuses on how science and its applications shape the social world. With Thuy Linh Tu, Nelson edited the influential collection Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life (New York University Press, 2001), and is the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Health and Race (forthcoming, University of California Press), the first book-length exploration of the radical organization's health-focused activities that included the formation of a network of neighborhood clinics, the implementation of genetic screening programs, and intervention into debates over the medicalization of violence.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 7:30 pm.
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus.
Free and open to the public
