{"618545":{"#nid":"618545","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat does it mean to design well? \u0026nbsp;To design ethically? \u0026nbsp;How might the things we engineer reflect our human values? In a world shaped by technology, these may be the most difficult and ongoing questions facing every engineer, builder, designer. \u0026nbsp;To address them, the way we think about design may need to fundamentally evolve. Drawing from Ge Wang\u0026#39;s new book ARTFUL DESIGN, and using music technology as a vehicle, we will examine everyday examples of design: programming languages, toy-like mobile apps like Ocarina, instruments for laptop orchestra, and social technologies. \u0026nbsp;Through these, we will consider how and why, more than addressing our practical needs, technology could and should be beautiful, humanistic, and socially meaningful. \u0026nbsp;This is a meditation on design for engineers, builders, and anyone curious (or concerned) about the shaping of technology -- not only what it does for us, but also what it does to us.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGe Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University\u0026rsquo;s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). \u0026nbsp;He researches artful design of tools, toys, games and social experiences. \u0026nbsp;Ge is the architect of the ChucK music programming language, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, co-founder of Smule and designer of the Ocarina and Magic Piano apps for mobile phones. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of ARTFUL DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME, a photo comic book about the ethics and craft of shaping technology. \u0026nbsp;Based on the book, Ge is currently teaching a new critical thinking course at Stanford, \u0026quot;Design that Understands Us.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/artful.design\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/artful.design\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stanford Professor and Margaret Guthman New Instrument Competition Judge Ge Wang speaks about the thought, ethics, and art in the design process behind Music Technology and beyond."}],"uid":"34961","created_gmt":"2019-02-27 16:52:08","changed_gmt":"2019-02-27 16:52:08","author":"anguyen328","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-03-08T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-03-08T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-03-08T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-03-08 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-03-08 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-03-08 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616301":{"id":"616301","type":"image","title":"Artful Design - Ge Wang","body":null,"created":"1547472901","gmt_created":"2019-01-14 13:35:01","changed":"1547472901","gmt_changed":"2019-01-14 13:35:01","alt":"","file":{"fid":"234576","name":"artful-design-book-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/artful-design-book-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/artful-design-book-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":476922,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/artful-design-book-2.jpg?itok=synrpVKs"}}},"media_ids":["616301"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/artful.design\/","title":"Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!"}],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"180156","name":"ge wang"},{"id":"180157","name":"artful design"},{"id":"180158","name":"2019 Margaret Guthman New Instrument Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGe Wang\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ge@ccrma.stanford.edu\u0022\u003Ege@ccrma.stanford.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}