New Media Caucus
Can Geeks Be Humanists?
Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marcia Tanner, independent curator, Berkeley
Intimacy in New Media Art
Andrea Ackerman, independent artist and psychiatrist
On the Geek as Humanist
Claudia Hart, Sarah Lawrence College; NY/Polytechnic University
Beyond Functional: Embedding Responsive Art into Human Systems
Sabrina Raaf, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago
Animate Objects, and the Evocation of Empathy
John Slepian, Wesleyan University
The Beautiful and the Terrifying
Gail Wight, Stanford University