2018 LITA Library Technology Forum

Thu, Nov 8 18 at 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST

Location: Minneapolis, MN
Labs: Harvard
Related events: ‘Playable Theatre’: on Gaming and Aesthetic Control; 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum; Aesthetics of the Im/Mobile; AI as Performer; Animals in the Machine: Robotic Animal Agents; Art by teamLab; Being Together/Alone: Temporal Communities in Hybrid Performances; Constructing Testimony in The Times of Pandemic; Contextualizing Liveness; Covid19, Transmedia and Posthuman Existence; Data Drama: How Machine Audiences Reprogram Theatre; Decentralized Storytelling; Designing Mixed-Reality Experiences; Digital Theatre in Africa; Documenting Viral Theatres; Future of Opera; futureSTAGE Manifesto Panel; Heteroglossia and Intelligibility in Transmedia Theatre; Mixing Theatre and Film; Negotiating Difference in 'Soma,' a Social VR Experience; Panel: Future of Dance; Performing AI: Labor and Complexity on the Contemporary Stage; Spectral Storytelling; Technology and Transmedia Dramaturgy in Contemporary Japanese Performing Arts; The Fusion of Transmedia Storytelling and Performing Arts; The Future of Transmedia Performance; The Inverted Theatre: Transmedia Is/As Hybrid; Transmedia and Immersive Theatre in Central and Eastern Europe; Transmedia Dramaturgy; Transmedia Storytelling for Real-Life Rehearsal; Transmedia, Technology, and the Future of Theatre; Understanding Metaverse Performance; VIRAL THEATRES Pandemic Past / Hybrid Futures; What is Transmedia? Perspectives on Metaverse

Wifi-proof booths; study carrels for napping; digital campfires for charging devices convivially—in the Library Test Kitchen seminar at the Graduate School of Design, metaLAB (at) Harvard has been exploring participatory innovation for libraries through fun, creative, improvisatory projects. And what’s a test kitchen without recipes? In this session, members of metaLAB will be on hand to demo their new platform for sharing such “recipes” for playful innovation in libraries—and to invite participants to contribute recipes of their own.

From LITA:

The LITA Forum is the annual gathering of about 300 technology-minded information professionals. It is the conference where technology meets the practicality of daily information operations in archives, libraries, and other information services. The Forum is an ideal place to interact with fellow library technologists. Attendees are working at the cutting edge of library technology and are interested in making connections with technically-inclined colleagues and learn about new directions and projects in libraries.