#crito hour

                                                     The CRITO Hour              

                                               Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:45 am - 12:50 pm UC Irvine Calit2, Room 3008  

                                              Peter Krapp, UC Irvine "Daisy, or A Bicycle for Two: On Computers and Music"  

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Abstract A lunchtime talk discussing the media archeology of music and computer technology, guided by the song HAL offered in the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Raising questions about sound under the conditions of the networked computer, the talk will also discuss the role of noise in the context of ergonomics and efficiency.

Biography Peter Krapp is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, Visual Studies, and English at the University of California Irvine, and affiliated also with the Department of Informatics. He is the author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press 2004) and of the forthcoming book Noisy Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (University of Minnesota Press 2011).