Where: DH Active Learning Space, Food Science Building 4.58 and via Panopto Streaming

https://ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=77440e1d-e123-4130-adf2-ade300c78a8f

Presentations last ~30mins, followed by a short discussion

Benny Lichtner (Design Technologist, Stamen)

Abstract

Benny Lichtner presents a digital magic trick, discusses clocks, and shares some thinking-in-progress around abstraction, reduction, and play in our science, poetry, and other language practices.

About the Speaker

Benny Lichtner grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and lives in Oakland, California. He studied Physics and Language Art at Brown University, and now plays with language and digital media to investigate how people make sense of the phenomenal world. He is a design technologist at Stamen, and a co-founder of New Art City. Recently, he’s been enthusiastically reading and re-reading the work of Vilém Flusser.