New media pioneer Jay David Bolter to visit S&T March 2 - Missouri S&T News and Research

Author, critic, technologist and caller media pioneer Dr. Jay David Bolter volition present 2 lectures astatine Missouri S&T connected Thursday, March 2. Among his galore accomplishments, Bolter is known for the books he’s authored oregon co-authored and for pioneering hypertext arsenic an exertion for originative writing.

His lecture, titled “Innovation, Creativity and the Metaverse,” volition absorption connected the metaverse, which is simply a virtual-reality abstraction wherever users interact with each different successful a technology-generated environment. Bolter volition sermon the societal and governmental dangers it whitethorn airs and its imaginable to reconfigure media culture.

Bolter’s sojourn to S&T is sponsored by the university’s Center for Creativity and Innovation. The lecture takes spot astatine 7 p.m. astatine Leach Theatre successful Castleman Hall, located connected the Missouri S&T field astatine the country of 10^th and Main streets successful Rolla. A reception with airy refreshments instantly preceding the lecture begins astatine 6 p.m. successful the lobby of the Leach Theatre.  Both the lecture and the reception are escaped and unfastened to the public.

Jay David Bolter visits S&T March 2.

At noon, Bolter volition present “Remediation Revisited,” a lecture that is besides escaped and unfastened to the nationalist but intended chiefly for S&T’s English and method communications students and faculty. The lecture volition instrumentality spot successful the Turner Room of the Havener Center connected the Missouri S&T campus.

Using Remediation, the publication helium co-authored with Dr. Richard Grusin, arsenic a marker, Bolter volition sermon the melodramatic changes successful media civilization since the book’s work successful 1999. At that time, astir media critics assumed that the emerging integer technologies specified arsenic the internet, virtual world and machine graphics needed to abstracted themselves from earlier media to attain a caller acceptable of aesthetic and taste principles. Bolter and Grusin challenged that assumption, arguing that paying homage to, rivaling and refashioning earlier media specified arsenic position painting, photography, movie and tv – a process the authors called “remediation” – was however caller media achieved their taste significance.

“Jay David Bolter is 1 of the astir important founding figures of integer media,” says Dr. Karen Head, prof of English and method connection and manager of S&T’s Center for Creativity and Innovation. “His galore achievements and accomplishments reenforce the information that without creativity, innovation simply does not occur. It’s a privilege to invited to Missouri S&T a existent pioneer who has played specified a pivotal relation helping america recognize the intersection of media and exertion for much than 30 years.”

Bolter’s accomplishments see moving with Michael Joyce to make Storyspace, a hypertext authoring system, collaborating successful the improvement of different integer media forms and, arsenic a subordinate of the Augmented Environments Lab, processing augmented world and virtual world applications to signifier melodramatic and communicative experiences for taste practice and informal education.

Books he’s written oregon co-written see Turing’s Man: Western Culture successful the Computer Age; Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing; Windows and Mirrors, with Diane Gromala; and The Digital Plentitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media.

Bolter earned a Ph.D. successful classics and a master’s grade successful machine subject from the University of North Carolina and received fellowships astatine Yale University, Cornell University, University of Göttingen and with the American Council of Learned Societies.  Following assorted module positions astatine the University of North Carolina, successful 1991 Bolter joined the Georgia Institute of Technology, wherever helium is presently the Wesley Chair of New Media.

About Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) is simply a STEM-focused probe assemblage of implicit 7,000 students. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System and located successful Rolla, Missouri, Missouri S&T offers 101 degrees successful 40 areas of survey and is among the nation’s apical 10 universities for instrumentality connected investment, according to Business Insider. S&T besides is location to the Kummer Institute, made imaginable by a $300 cardinal acquisition from Fred and June Kummer. For much accusation astir Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.