PETER LUNENFELD’s presentation for the colloquia, The Mediawork Project: What Kinds of Texts, Images, and Interactions do Visual Intellectuals Need in a Networked Age? addresses the emergence of visual intellectuals—people simultaneously making, pondering, and commenting on culture in a way that doesn’t always begin with words. He discusses how to develop strategies to make the dissemination of critical thinking both more seductive and more rigorous to geeks and technophobes, artists and art historians, MBA’s and scientists alike.
PETER LUNENFELD is a writer and critic specializing in the history and theory of media technologies and a member of the Core Faculty of the Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design. He holds a BA from Columbia University, an MA from SUNY at Buffalo, and a PhD from UCLA. Peter founded Mediawork: the Southern California New Media Working Group. He serves as Director of the Institute for Technology & Aesthetics (ITA), is the author of USER (MIT, 2004) and Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media & Cultures (MIT, 2000). He is the editor of The Digital Dialectic: New Essays in New Media (MIT, 1999) and the editorial director for the Mediawork Project, a pamphlet series, from MIT Press. Mediawork pamphlets explore art, literature, design, music, and architecture in the context of emergent technologies and rapid economic and social change. They can be described as being somewhere in-between ‘zines for grown-ups and transmedia theoretical fetish objects.
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