Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014. 4:00 PM.
Location: Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room
How are digital platforms changing our engagement with books? How can we create digital texts that rival the material sophistication of the printed book? As the definition of reading changes in the network era, are we changing the definition of the self, the humanities, and knowledge itself? How will game mechanics, play, and performance shape the future of reading?
On May 12-14, 2014, renowned authors, musicians, journalists, artists and scholars will answer these questions and others as they collaboratively write and publish a book on The Future of Reading in just three days. In collaboration with Stanford's Center for the Study of the Novel This “book sprint” is an experiment in the future of the book as a collaborative, performative, and playful exercise. Join the authors for this public panel and conversation exploring the Future of Reading.
Speakers will include Ed Finn, director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, David Rothenberg, an experimental musician and professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; Eileen Gunn, science fiction author and publisher of The Infinite Matrix; and Dan Gillmor, professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and a columnist for The Guardian and Mediactive.