Digital Culture(s)

Guest Speaker: Ine Poppe, NRC-Handelsblad Writer and artist Date: May 3rd, 2007 Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UCSD [webcast] Host: Sheldon Brown, Director, CRCA

DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: Ine Poppe will present some of her latest research in digital culture which includes working on a novel about three women sharing a humanoid (about robotics, artificial intelligence, sex and 'wet art'). She will discuss her involvement with the hacker community in Amsterdam, and screen part of her film 'Hippies from Hell', which documents the history of Hackers. Poppe lectures on the arts and multimedia and is Professor at Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. Her documentary 'Hippies from Hell' was shown at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2002 and went on to venues in Europe and South America. She has written for several computer games, and also produced 'Necrocam' - an online piece depicting a webcam inside a coffin. Last summer she took a camera crew to visit robotic Artist Norman White in Canada. She is also working on a novel about life with a humanoid. This presentation has been made possible by support from CRCA, Calit2 and the Waag society in Amsterdam. SPEAKER BIO: Ine Poppe (1960, NL) works in Amsterdam as an artist, writer, director. She writes about digital culture, technology and art, the recent years mainly for the national newspaper NRC-Handelsblad. She has researched and directed television documentaries for National Television; wrote a journalistic book about Dutch Squatters in the eighties, and published essays about art and science. Her art-projects 'Mothermilk cheese' (1984), 'Women with Beards' (1997) were shown worldwide.