Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime
Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime
Speaker: Ge Wang
Abstract
How might the shaping of technology make our lives richer and more meaningful? This presentation (with live demos) is a journey through the design of everyday tools, musical instruments, games, and social experiences -- working at the intersection of HCI, design, art, the humanities and social science. It is a story on how we shape technology, and how technology, in turn, shapes us and our society.
Bio
Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in Music, Computer Science, and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He researches the artful design of tools, instruments, toys, games and social experiences. Ge is the architect of the ChucK music programming language, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra and the CCRMA VR Design Lab, co-founder of Smule, and designer of the Ocarina and Magic Piano apps for mobile phones. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME (2018), a photo comic book about the ethics and aesthetics of shaping technology. (https://artful.design/)
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/