SoftWhere: Software Studies Workshop :: May 21-22, 2008 :: Atkinson Hall, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA.

Following on the first Software Studies Workshop organized by Matthew Fuller (Rotterdam, 2006), the Software Studies Workshop @ UCSD is a foundational event bringing together key U.S. scholars in this emerging area. The workshop will discuss what it means to study software cultures, and the direction and goals of Software Studies as an emerging movement. Our goal is for the workshop to result in publishing a founding statement on the field, as well as initiate a set of interdisciplinary project collaborations.

The workshop will take place in Atkinson Hall, home of Calit2, a pre-eminant research center for future computing and telecommunication, where the Software Studies Initiative @ UCSD is located and currently collaborating with researchers on several exciting projects. The workshop has has also been timed to precede (and co-ordinate with) the HASTAC II conference which will begin in nearby UC Irvine on the evening of Thursday May 22.

Participants:

Ian Bogost (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Geoff Bowker (Santa Clara University)
Benjamin Bratton (UCLA)
Matt Fuller (Goldsmiths)
Kate Hayles (UCLA)
Matt Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland)
Peter Lunefeld (ArtCenter)
Mark Marino (USC)
Michael (Mateas (UCSC)
Nick Montfort (MIT)
Rita Raley (UCSB)
Casey Reas (UCLA)
Warren Sack (UCSC)
Doug Sery (MIT Press)
Chandler McWilliams (UCLA)

Campus Participants:

Lev Manovich (UCSD)
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (UCSD)
Jeremy Douglass (UCSD)
Jordan Crandall (UCSD)
Brian Goldfarb (UCSD)
Jim Hollan (UCSD)
Stefan Tanaka (UCSD)
Geoff Voelker (UCSD)

More participants to be confirmed.