The September issue of WIRED Italy features a story by Matteo Bittanti on Mixed Reality Performance: An Evening on Sirikata, an  upcoming performance at the MiTo International festival of Music in Milan, Italy, on September 12 and 13.  The event is presented by the Stanford Humanities Lab [SHL] and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics [CCRMA], Stanford University).  Introduced by Jeffrey T. Schnapp (founder-director, Stanford Humanities Lab), the event will mix real-life performances with virtual worlds, thanks to the work done by the Sirikata team led by Henrik Bennetsen (associate director of the Stanford Humanities Lab) and Chris Platz, the art director.  

The 2.0 version of the Digital Humanities manifesto, a collaborative project of the 2009 UCLA Mellon Seminar on the Digital Humanities, has now been released for commentary and debate.

How can knowledge, research, and pedagogical practice in the arts and humanities drive the design and development of emerging digital media (and vice versa)?

How did we get to where we are now?

What is really at stake?

How do we make informed decisions about where we want to be in the future?

... decisions informed by deep and broad understanding of long-term trends as well as local sensitivity

... decisions informed by ''human'' sensitivity.

Topic: the antiquarian tradition

Project: an international research network - digitally enabled

 SHL is collaborating with The Tech Museum of Innovation to organize an exhibition - provisionally titled 'The Creative Engines of the Silicon Valley' - focusing on creativity as exemplified by the entertainment industries in this Californian region. This will be a contribution to the Tech Museum’s “The Spirit of Silicon Valley” gallery renewal series.

A partnership between the Brazilian Lab of Digital Culture and the Stanford Humanities Lab

The Stanford Humanities Lab enjoys durable and wide-ranging support from, and rich collaborative relationships with, entities and organizations both within and outside the University. Those listed here have been fundamental to the growth and success of the Lab since its inception.

Life Squared (L²) re-animates the existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Converting the archive into a digital format of hybrid genre will allow users of the content to dynamically revisit the past while simultaneously expanding the audience for this material. Life Squared dialogues with the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson in the form of a mixed-reality "animated" archive developed in Second Life.