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Announcing this week's instalment of the Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Summer seminars

Tim Hill (Cambridge) 'Wiser than the Undeceived? Past Worlds as Virtual Worlds in the Electronic Media'

Time: Friday 22 June at 16:30 Place: Room NG16 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Brief abstract: Despite frequent claims that the electronic media represent a decisive break with the textual past, when software designers claim to recreate historical realities in their work questions long-familiar to classicists immediately arise. What can or should be represented? What ought the relationship between reality and representation be? What is the relationship between cognition and emotion in artistic representations? In earlier periods, the limitations of computer processing speed and power rendered answers to such questions de facto or purely speculative; as the sophistication of digital representation increases, however, it is becoming clear that meaningful modern responses to these ancient philosophical questions must be based not upon computational, but formal and generic, criteria.

All are welcome. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments after which everyone is also welcome to join us in entertaining the speaker at a local venue.

Best regards Simon

---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel St London WC2R 3DX Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX