HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES

HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES examines the transformations of space that have taken place with the advent of digital technologies. Through wireless networks and the satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS), microcomputers enable us to send text, audio and video across the globe in a matter of seconds, reshaping our relationship to place, to history, to information, and to each other. Wherever else we may be, we are increasingly online. Text messages, social networking sites, and blogs occasion novel forms of intimacy and distance. Google maps and GPS receivers overwrite landscape with data. This series of events seeks to reflect and explore new physical and conceptual spaces and asks for your participation in mapping these new territories.

Organized by the Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology (cDACT) at Stony Brook University: Christa Erickson, Director; Zabet Patterson, Art; Tamara Berg, Computer Science; Margaret Schedel, Music; Raiford Guins, Cultural Studies. Supported by FAHSS Interdisciplinary Initiatives Grants.

The HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES Exhibition takes place in the Student Activities Center Art Gallery at Stony Brook University from October 24th to December 11th, 2009. The exhibition includes works by Raed Atoui, Christopher Baker, cDACT plus grads, Christa Erickson, Chris Galanis, Ingo Günther, Mark Napier, Lisa Jevbratt, Golan Levin, Stephanie Loveless, Leslie Sharpe, and Ge Wang. RECEPTION: October 26th, 4:30-7, 2009

The HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES Lecture Series includes: Ben Rubin (Keynote Speaker), WED March 10th at 5pm @ Wang Center Lecture Hall 2 Hugh Livingston, TUES OCT 27, 2:30pm @ Hybrid Studio Staller 4255 Ge Wang, Stanford, TH OCT 29, 2:15-3:45pm @ Computer Science 2311 Mor Naaman, Rutgers, TH DEC 3, 2:15-3:45pm @ Computer Science 2311 Felicity Scott, Columbia, TBA February, 2010

TOUR OF SBU RESEARCH PARK CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN WIRELESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CEWIT) WED MARCH 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM

The HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES Concert will take place in the Wang Center Theatre at Stony Brook University on WED MARCH 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM.

Special thanks to: Joe Esser, Alanna Regan, Takafumi Ide, Elad Shniderman, Hronn Axelsdottir, Andrew Uroskie, Wang Center staff, Peter Gorneault, and SAC Gallery staff.

For further information, please christa.erickson.sbu@gmail.com