Rita Raley, an associate professor in the English Department at UCSB, is the author of Tactical Media, which explores new media art and activism as it is transformed by the decentralization of capital. Raley, whose interests include locative media, mobile telephony, and electronic literature, is director of the Literature.Culture.Media center, co-director of the Literature and Culture of Information specialization and currently leading a working group on “New Reading Interfaces” for Transliteracies. Recent essays center on mobile and locative narrative, as well as a study of Mark Hansen and Ben Fry’s “Listening Post” project (pictured). She will talk about interactive text projection, sometimes called p2P or private-to-public speech.

The talk begins at 7:00 in SCA 112 and is free and open to students, faculty, and the general public.

About the Symposium

The Digital Studies Symposium is both a course (IML 466) and a public forum designed to introduce participants to diverse examples of scholarly media-based projects and practices. The speakers in this series are artists, programmers, scholars and designers, and their projects include cutting edge gestural interfaces, mobile media experiments, innovative websites, games and augmented reality experiments. The presentations are moderated by Holly Willis, the IML’s Director of Academic Programs.

For further information, please contact the IML at 213.743.4421, register for the course, or visit the symposium Web site.