The MEDEA Talks series is a popular venue for the public to learn about our work and meet with highly skilled thinkers and practitioners from the new media and design fields.
JEANNETTE GINSLOV is Medea’s Artist in Recidence this spring. Her roots are as a performer, choreographer and artistic director in South Africa, but her currant work centers around affect, haptic and digital materialit [...]
DAVID CUARTIELLES is a researcher at Malmö University and one of the founders of the revolutionary open-source microcontroller Arduino. On March 1, David Cuartielles gave a Medea Talk about the history of Arduino, and a [...]
Lucy Suchman is a Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies. Her research has involved ethnographic studies of everyday practices of technology design and use. Lucy Suchman’s [...]
Paul Kelly, Bob Stanley and Martin Theander discusses the film What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? A poetic documentary of the Lower Lea Valley, a part of London where the 20th century was born. [...]
MEDEA Talks # 15 presents artist-in-residence Arlene Birt who speaks on the theme “Visualizing Sustainability” and how to communicate consumers’ roles in social and ecological sustainability. She also p [...]
SUSAN KOZEL combines dance and philosophy in the context of new media. She works with bodies, ideas and technologies. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Essex, UK, and a long history of various movement t [...]
JON KOLKO is an Associate Creative Director at Frog Design and he is MEDEA’s entrepreneur-in-residence in May. Kolko is also the Director of Austin Center for Design, a new educational institution in Austin, Texas. [...]
HANNA SKÖLD är regissör på Tangram Film. Förra året uppmärksammades hon för sin långfilm Nasty Old People som handlar om 19-åriga Mette som sliter inom hemtjänsten och är nynazist på fritiden. Filmen produce [...]
CAROL ARCHER is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has had several exhibitions in Macau, Australia and Hong Kong. Archer also writes about art in Macao, Hong Kon [...]
ROBERT JACOBSON is the first entrepreneur-in-residence at MEDEA. He’s the Principal of Bluefire Consulting in Tucson, Arizona, and a Senior Innovation Management Consultant and Futurist with Gemba A/S, Vedbæk, Denmark [...]
GK VAN PATTER is a well-known commentator on design and “design thinking.” His NextD series of monologues and interviews set the standard for discourse on design. Humantific, a firm he co-founded and directs, was fea [...]
ADAM GREENFIELD lives in a city, and thinks you probably do, too. Over the past several years, he says, we’ve watched as a very wide variety of objects and surfaces familiar from everyday life have been reimagined as n [...]
MARC CANTER is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool. He’s a trained opera singer, father of five, change agent, and a 25+ year software veteran. At one point he was [...]
MARK ANDERSON is the CEO of the Strategic News Service newsletter read by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, and industry leaders and investors in computing and communications worldwide; and founding chair of the annua [...]
JAMES HALIBURTON, Manager for Concept Development, The Astonishing Tribe (TAT): Innovation in mobile interaction, 15 juni 2009. [...]
VERENA KUNI, professor i visuell kultur, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main: Home Made Media Archaeology. The Second Life of Second Life and other tales from the Digital Dust Diaries, 25 maj 2009. [...]
JAY DAVID BOLTER is professor at the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology. Performance and media studies have long discussed whether television has changed the cultural categor [...]
ERIC KLOPFER, Director of Teacher Education Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [...]
DICK HEBDIGE, Director of Arts and Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of California Riverside’s Palm Desert Graduate Center. In the 30 years since Richard Hell et al at CBGB’s in New York and John Lydon [...]
