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Discovery: A Trans-Pacific Curatorial Experiment

Admission is free.

Refreshments will be served.

In the future, will everyone be a curator for fifteen minutes? Join us for a discussion about bridging cultures, digital memory and the future of libraries, museums and interactive media. The USC Libraries collaborated with digital libraries at universities in the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance to create a crowd-sourced exhibition about exploration and discovery. At www.usc.edu/libraries/transpacific, students from USC and Asian, Australian and North American universities will be able to vote on and discuss images from digital collections that express the idea of discovery. The results will be displayed in an exhibition at Doheny Memorial Library.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a panel discussion will feature Anne Balsamo, a USC professor of interactive media whose work focuses on the relationship between culture and technology; Paolina Martin, acting head of the Li Ka Shing Library at Singapore Management University; and representatives from digital libraries across the Pacific Rim who are taking part in this curatorial experiment. The panelists will reflect on cross-cultural understanding, the nature of universal ideas like discovery, the rapidly transforming Pacific Rim media landscape and possibilities for future forms of curation and engagement with museum and library collections.

Organized by the USC Libraries.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski