International Exposure

Marsha Kinder

Criticial Studies Professor Marsha Kinder is sharing her expertise around the globe.

Germany: 
    The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River, a museum installation made by USC’s Labyrinth Project in collaboration with Hungarian media artist Peter Forgács opened at the Jewish Museum in Berlin in April 2007, where it will run for three months. This installation had its debut exhibition at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2002 and has been touring Europe ever since.

Russia: 
Kinder was invited by Dmitry Bak, the Provost for Scholarly Research at the Russian State Humanities University in Moscow, the largest educational institution in humanities in Russia, to give a lecture/presentation in early September on Labyrinth’s on-line constructivist courseware project, Russian Modernism and its International Dimensions, which is funded by an NEH grant. She will also be discussing a possible collaboration with that institution. Earlier this year, Labyrinth formed a collaboration with Tatiana Vinogradova, a professor of civil engineering at the Nizhny Novgorod University of Construction and Architecture in Russia, who is authoring one of our pathways (an interactive lecture) on the 1896 Great All-Russian Expo in Nizhny Novgorod, which is the setting for our role-playing game, Montage: A Russian History Game for the Masses. Her pathway is based on two documentary films she has produced on the construction of the 1896 Expo and on the innovative engineer Vladimir Shukhov whose hyperboloid tower debuted at the Expo.
Taiwan:
 Kinder gave two keynote lectures at the annual conference on Public Science Education and Communication in Taiwan, which was hosted by the National Science Council in Taipei. The title of her first talk was Refiguring Representation: Envisioning Science and Interactive Learning. At her second talk she presented, A Tale of Two Genes: Exploring the Biology and Culture of Aggression and Anxiety, an interactive science project produced in collaboration with Dr. Jean Chen Shih of the USC School of Pharmacy. Produced by The Labyrinth Project, this experimental project is being translated into Mandarin. From July 19 through July 30th, two of Labyrinth’s media artists, Kristy H.A. Kang and Rosemary Comella (who directed and did the interface design on A Tale of Two Genes), will be teaching a workshop on this project at the National Chengchi University in Taipei

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