UW's Kleinman to Deliver Commercialization of Higher Education Talk Friday at UWM

UW-Madison Professor in Community and Environmental Sociology Daniel Kleinman will deliver a talk at UW-Milwaukee this Friday called "Uneven Commercialization: Contradiction and Conflict in the Identity and Practices of American Universities."  The discussion focuses on the "widespread claims about the commercialization of higher education," which Kleinman argues are "overbroad."

Kleinman focuses on two measures in his talk, "the treatment of students as consumers and the use of strategic planning by academic administrators."  He also indicates that commercial practices vary based on factors like differing institutions, time, and social position.

The talk will be hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Curtin Hall room 118.  The event is free and open to the public.  Additionally, those who cannot attend may view the talk live on the C21 Ustream channel.

For more information, refer to the Center for 21st Century Studies site.

Tomorrow at UWM: Geography/GIS Symposium

A “Geography/GIS Symposium” will be held at UW-Milwaukee on Thursday, November 17 at the Golda Meir Library on campus.  The event is sponsored by the UWM Department of Geography.


The schedule of events for Thursday has two prominent scholars in the geography field hosting talks in the afternoon.  At 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Professor John P. Wilson (University of Southern California) will discuss "The Spatial Sciences, Society, Environment and Health."  Distinguished Professor Mei-Po Kwan (Ohio State University) will host "On Linking Health and Geography" at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.


The symposium continues Friday, November 18 with a general meeting for students, faculty, and staff who are interested.  This meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. in Bolton Hall, room 262 on the UWM campus.


See the Geography/GIS Symposium site for more information.

"The Framing Years" Talks Policy in the Early Internet Years

Sandra Braman, professor in the UWM Department of Communications will deliver a talk Friday, November 4 on the issues the designers of the Internet had to think through, such as privacy and intellectual property rights.

In "The Framing Years: Policy Fundamentals in the Internet Design Process, 1969-1979," Braman will discuss how positions on these issues were "framed by conceptualizations of the nature of the network, goals to be served by the network, the nature of the users and uses of the network, and the design criteria that served as policy principles developed during the early years of the design process."

As part of the Center for Information Policy Research's "brown bag research lunch" session, held multiple times throughout each semester, "The Framing Years" will share the stage with other formal and informal discussions Friday.  The goal of these luncheons is to offer a space for faculty, staff, and students interested in information policy and ethics to share both finished and in-progress research.

In addition to other talks, "The Framing Years" will be held in Bolton Hall, room 521 at UW-Milwaukee, 1:30 - 3:00pm on Friday, November 4.

Impressionism Exhibit Opens At Museum

The "Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" exhibit opened today at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and will be open until early January 2012. The exhibit features over a hundred "drawings, watercolors, and pastels by many of the greatest artists in the history of Western European art—Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec," according to the announcement on the Museum's website.

An interesting inclusion in the exhibit is Renoir's Bathers with Crab, primarily due to the nature by which the museum acquired the piece: through a Super Bowl bet.  In a "gentleman's wager" with the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum won the rights to borrow the Impressionist piece when the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in February.

"Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" is open starting today through January 8, 2012 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  For information on admission, visit the museum's website.

Morgan Spurlock to visit UWM

Award-winning writer, director, and producer Morgan Spurlock will visit UW-Milwaukee October 19 as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.  The Super Size Me director will deliver The Greatest Lecture Ever Told in the UWM Union Wisconsin Room, shining the "the definitive light on our branded future."

Spurlock will showcase his latest documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which was funded on $1.5 million in product placement from a variety of corporations.  The catch is that Spurlock details those same corporations in the documentary, which is about - what else - product placement in the media.  According to The New York Times, Spurlock made about 600 cold calls to companies to fund the documentary, with many pleas shown in the film.

The event will be held Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 pm, with advance ticket prices ranging from $5 for UWM students to $12 for general public, available at the UWM Bookstore.  For more information on the lecture, visit UWM Sociocultural Programming's event calendar.

Couto Bros + Mural = FUN |

For the Milwaukeeans who are still sour because of an $800,000 public art project that was scrapped recently, or because of a bronze erection of Henry Winkler that cost the tax payers approximately $85,000, you can now quit your pissing and moaning because there's a new artistic spectacle in town that even Scott Walker would be proud of.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Milwaukee's early days of industry and drab brick buildings, a brilliantly colored mural rises 30 feet above Walker's Point for all to see and enjoy.

Now guess how many dollars this public art piece is going to cost the tax payers:

Zero.

read Vic Buell's full article here:

Couto Bros + Mural = FUN |

| Technology, Experimental Art and Media fun in MKE!

| Technology, Experimental Art and Media fun in MKE!

Team Fun: a creative commons community

Greetings friends and colleagues,

I wanted to share with you a local online community for the creative folks of Milwaukee that a group of us has put some energy in developing. We could use your help to infuse some more energy, and to join forces with creative people like you.

www.teamfun.cc (the cc stands for creative commons)

It’s a multimedia and culture forum designed for local artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, writers, culinary artists and all creative minds alike to post their work (or documentation of their work), share ideas and connect with other creative minds in the Milwaukee area. By connecting people and other creative subcultures around the city, the website’s goal is to help foster free culture and creativity here in Milwaukee while vitalizing a local arts scene.

It’s all about networking!

Creative peoples of Milwaukee: We should work together in order to create our own artistic opportunities here in Milwaukee and help reverse the culture vacuum of L.A. NY and Chicago! Even if you already have your own personal website or blog, I encourage you to register and share some of your work along with a link to your personal website, if only to provide a diversity of places to share your creative works other than facebook!

teamfun.cc is an online community of people who actually care about your work and will be much more likely to provide genuine feedback and lively discussion.

Once again, it’s www.teamfun.cc

Please register and join the fun!

Yours Truly,

Vic Buell
Digital Arts and Culture
Office of Undergraduate Research SURF Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
@heylittlevic

Digital Arts and Culture Certificate at UW-Milwaukee

Digital Arts and Culture Certificate at UW-Milwaukee
New Digital Arts & Culture website is live and fantastic! Kudos to DAC student and site designer @jrottier #uwm #iamuwm whad'ya think?

http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/dac/students.cfm

ENG 328 Experimental Literature: Animated Writing

Looking for an exciting and innovative writing course to take this fall? Check out ENG 328!

This course fulfills a practicum elective for the Digital Arts and Culture Certificate.

Questions regarding the course can be directed to Anne Wysocki at awysocki@uwm.edu.

Questions regarding the DAC Certificate Program, contact Marc Tasman at mtasman@uwm.edu.

Media Studies Graduate Colloquium

from Elana Levine

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Media Studies M.A.

Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

The final Media Studies M.A. program colloquium of the semester will be Tuesday, May 10 from 2 - 3PM in Merrill 347. We have three great presentations from graduate students, a preview of their presentations for the International Communication Association conference, http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2011/ at the end of May. Please join us!

Stacy Blasiola, "Say 'Cheese'! Bloggers and Cameras in Wisconsin Courtrooms"

Weiai Xu, "The Behavior of Internet Censorship in China"

Yoonmo Sang and Jonathan Anderson, "Bloggers' Libel Liability: A Comparative Analysis of South Korea and the United States"

embodied placemaking (part two)

FREE and open to the public

When: Friday, April 29

Where: UWM Campus, Curtin Hall Room 175 (3243 N. Downer Ave)

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Embodied placemaking occurs on streets, along edges of buildings, and in interiors and plazas. It happens momentarily or persists over days, repeats seasonally or remains a historical memory of an event from the past. Its very ordinariness and ethereality speak of deeply engrained cultural practices and knowledges that are so integral to our experiences and expectations of a city that we never question them.

Our speakers address embodied placemaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Several explore how buildings and cities can be designed in order to encourage and enhance possibilities of such engagements; others present case studies of such processes in contemporary cities. Several theorize on the cognitive and sensory processes by which individuals make place while others study the politics of embodied placemaking.

Speakers include: Rachel Breunlin (U of New Orleans), Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (USC), Emanuela Guano (Georgia State), Jennifer Geigel Mikulay (Alverno), Carl Nightingale (SUNY-Buffalo), Janet Zweig (Brooklyn, NY).

embodied placemaking is sponsored by C21 (College of Letters and Science, with the support from the Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Check here for more information: http://bit.ly/9x74db

Samuel Williams Exhibition

This even is FREE and open to the public.

Date: Friday April 1 through June 19

Time: Opening reception: Friday, April 1, 5-8 p.m.

Gallery hours are Wednesday - Sunday, Noon- 5 p.m., open late Thursdays until 8 p.m.

Location: INOVA/Kenilworth

Samuel Williams is a British artist working primarily in sculpture and video. His work tends to focus on limitations of materials and time (for example, his series of 20-second sculptures, made from whatever is at hand within the one-third minute time constraint). For this exhibition, Inova will fully engage Williams' inventive capabilities, and the limitations of his living in a country an ocean away.

For the first time ever, at the beginning of the show the gallery will be empty. Each day the gallery is open (including opening night) throughout the run of the show, Williams will send instructions, via fax, e-mail or telephone, for one sculpture to be made on site. A collection of volunteers, drawn from students in the Peck School of the Arts and the Milwaukee community, will sign on to help realize these works, gradually filling up the gallery at the pace of one sculpture per day that the gallery is open. By the end of the show, if all goes as planned 38 Williams sculptures will occupy the space.

For more information please contact the box office at 414.229.4308.

Paolo Ruffino and the artist collective IOCOSE

The Peck School of the Arts and the Center for 21st Century Studies present "IOCOSE: the future is a reconstruction," a film screening & lecture by Paolo Ruffino from the University of London, about the artist collective Iocoose (http://www.iocose.org/) , at 3 pm, Tuesday, April 12, Curtin 175. See c21.uwm.edu and arts.uwm.edu/artistsnow.

Spring Gallery Night and Day presented by The Historic Third Ward Association

The Downtown Milwaukee Area

Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16

FREE Admission to all venues during event hours

Presented by the Historic Third Ward Association, the 23-year-old Gallery Night and Day is the premier art event in Milwaukee for both the experienced art connoisseur and most beginning admirer. An evening of gallery hopping and art viewing begins Friday, April 15 and continues during the day on Saturday, April 16. This Spring, the quarterly event showcases 57 venues throughout the downtown Milwaukee area.

For an easy tour, catch the free Friday Gallery Night Xpress and enjoy a six-stop route which will take you from the Third Ward to East Town and back. The 14-passenger bus makes a continuous loop from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday with stops approximately every 15 minutes.

For a more information and a detailed list of event venues, visit http://ow.ly/4wPl.

New DAC course, English 380 – Media and Society: Game Culture

Stuart Moulthrop
English 380 – Media and Society: Game Culture
Fall, 2011 - Wednesdays 11:00 am – 1:40 pm


This is a first course in the critical study of games, especially videogames, and the culture of participatory media to which they belong. It will introduce the concept of games and play as pat of a meaning-making activity; it will survey forms, conventions, and practices that inform the design and reception of games; it will outline major theoretical trends within the emerging field of Game Studies; it will examine the place of games in contemporary culture, and consider some of the problems and challenges they pose.

The course is intended for students in any major who want to think critically, creatively, and yes, seriously about playful media. This will involve a certain amount of reading and writing (critical evaluation of games, applications and responses to theory), and also a good deal of game play, both in and out of class.

The preliminary syllabus can be accessed at http://www.tinyurl.com/gameCult.

Artists Now! Nate Larson at UW-Milwaukee

Nate Larson, Artists Now! Guest Lecturer
April 6, 2011
7 pm in the Arts Center Lecture Hall on the UWM campus.
FREE and open to the public!


Larson's photographic work uses visual and textual narrative to explore the way that individuals construct meaning in contemporary culture through the lenses of social networking, consumer behavior, organized religion, and other contemporary mythologies.


UWM's Department of Art & Design continues its Artists Now!, Wednesday evening lecture series designed for a broad audience with an interest in contemporary visual art. It presents a diverse group of artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines.

Calling All Artists!

The UWM Planetarium is now accepting space-themed artwork for an upcoming benefit event hosted by The Manfred Olson Planetarium.

Requirements

Subject: Space-themed

Medium: Any

Please include artist name, email, and title of work.

Submissions are due by April 1 at 5:00 p.m. to Physics room 148.

For further questions or to submit work, please email RLHEBEIN[at]uwm[dot]edu.

Labor Dollars and Mythic Tractors March On Madison

From Lane Hall:

Madison was oh, so cold, but pretty amazing. I have posted a diary on
Kos, a reflection on tractors and spectacle.

I hope you enjoy it, and hope to see all of you on the streets, in the
rallies, and at the recalls. (Nice photo diary on Kos by "Kodiak54" if
you want to see some good pix)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/13/955895/-Mythic-Tractors-March-On-Madison

Best,

Lane

Michael Wesch Digital Ethnography, Today

Michael Wesch will be on campus today for a Digital Future address (remarks are at 3pm in the Zelazo Center Bader Concert Hall; reception/small group discussion is at 4:15 in Zelazo 250).
See http://www4.uwm.edu/acad_aff/digitalfuture/events/wesch.cfm
Also see his video, The Machine is Us/ing Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE


Dr. Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography
2008 U.S. Professor of the Year
Kansas State University


Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.