Chris Joseph

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391.org dadacast #13

17m10s. By 391.org, intsb, AN and JT, Calendar Girl, Escha, David Betchkal, The Cardboard Lung and babel. Hosted by Jean Harlow.

391.org vs Jean Harlow - You Big Windbag (0:15 - 1:06)
intsb - Dans la Memoire de Tristan (1:07 - 6:54)
AN and JT - Fiesta del Siesta (7:12 - 8:10)
Calendar Girl/Escha - Throw Me Nuclear (8:18 - 11:42)
David Betchkal - Djii (11:48 - 12:22)
The Cardboard Lung - Prepare for Government (12:29 - 15:18)
babel vs Escha - Da Da Da (15:25 - 17:08)

For more Dada-related podcasts and visuals visit http://www.391.org/broadcast

A Wider Embrace: ICT & the Arts - a series of free regional training events from Voluntary Arts England.

Workshop One: Is your art or craft group missing out?

More and more art and craft groups are using the web and computers to help their group and promote themselves - is your group missing out? This FREE introductory workshop will guide you through the opportunities available to your group. Over the three hour workshop you will cover:

* simple websites
* the range of computers/hardware/software available
* the costs involved and how you could secure funding
* back up/virus protection / firewalls
* securing on-going technical support
* how using IT can help your group with minutes, newsletters, databases and bookkeeping.

Workshop Two: Developing IT within your art and craft group

Masterclass exploring topics e.g. Web 2.0 and specialist software packages guiding you through the opportunities available to develop your IT capabilities. This FREE three hour workshop will cover:

* how to develop your website e.g. ticket sales, blogs, uploading photographs, music and videos, pod casting, RSS and Web 2.0.
* demonstrations of different specialist software packages available e.g. Photoshop and composer.
* free software available
* sharing hardware resources within the sector
* costings and funding opportunities,
* how you can access further help and support.

Participants on both workshops will receive a comprehensive pack of handy hints, tips and articles on using IT within your group.

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Wednesday 9th January 4pm
De Montfort University, Leicester Media and Film Seminar Series 2008
Room Clephan 3.02

Dr Graeme Kirkpatrick, University of Manchester - ‘Dr Kawashima and the global culture industry: Gaming and social theory’

Graeme Kirkpatrick is interested in philosophy and sociology of technology, with a particular emphasis on the social and historical contingencies that shape technology design. He is currently working on a study of the computer game as a cultural form. His book (2004) Critical Technology: A social theory of personal computing (Ashgate) won the 2005 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize from the British Sociological Association.

He is currently writing a new book on computer game studies for Polity Press.

Other on-going research projects include a study of the social context of home computing in Europe in the 1980s, and an ethnographic study of how digital visualisations function in the workplace.