Harvard conference, April 8

[rivkat]

Signal/Noise 2k5: I will be at this conference, April 8, 2005, and I think it will be great.

According to the text they sent me, "The conference offers an exciting mix of performances, demonstrations and discussions examining how digital technologies are enabling new forms of creativity by a broader group of people. Cultural, business, legal and ethical implications of new genres and new forms of authorship will all be covered." I'm supposed to say something about fan fiction; we'll have to see what I come up with.

The conference is hosted by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and registration is extremely cheap - $10 for students and $20 for nonstudents. The amazing naominovik will be there too. In case you don't know her, according to the conference website:

Author of the fantasy series TEMERAIRE, coming in Spring 2006 from Del Rey and Harper Collins UK, Naomi Novik has been writing fanfiction for more than a decade. She is also the founder and organizer of Vividcon, the annual convention for digital video enthusiasts who create music videos and other short films based on their favorite television shows and movies, and of the Commonverse, a project dedicated to applying the "open source" approach for software development to the writing of commercial shared-universe fiction.

Okay, now I feel unworthy.

Comments

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Hm, are they putting out proceedings?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it on the site, but it might be worth bookmarking and checking back -- Berkman might well put streaming video or the like up.

[gianna24.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm 3L down at Penn and I was actually thinking about coming up with a couple other students for the conference and I kind of wanted to know who you are when I see you speak, since I'm a big fan of all your X-files fic. I don't know if that's a weird question, but you're kind of a mini-celeb for me, so if you told me that would be cool. If I've just made a major faux pas, then I apologize.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Go to the "speakers," third from the bottom.

[gianna24.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm glad you like the stories!

[mindyfromohio.livejournal.com]

Yay! I work at Ye Olde Law School and am hoping to have enough afternoon downtime to sneak into your panel (fortunately, my best work friend works at the Berkman Center and said I could).