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The Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory |
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The Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory |
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Who We Are and What We Do
The actlab was founded by professor Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone in 1992, with financial and logistical encouragement from the Radio-TV-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. We are a freewheeling research facility for advanced work at the boundaries where technology, art, and culture collide. The primary inhabitants of the actlab are students enrolled in classes in the sequences "The Challenge of Interactive Multimedia", "Theories of Interaction", and "Theory and Methods of an Unnameable Discourse". The laboratory is also populated (infested?) by Sandy's former students, researchers, and by various friends of the laboratory. A number of researchers who have moved their biosubstrates elsewhere remain part of the actlab community by usual and unusual virtual means. The actlab has close ties with our sister organization,the McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, with whom we are constructing a joint Web project, and with The Lanning Organization, with whom we are studying advanced techniques for K-12 networked education. The actlab is also host to the home site for the International Conference on Cyberspace, now entering its sixth year. Here's a link to some of the other organizations that do similar kinds of work. Our intent is to continue to incorporate information relevant to the study of virtual systems (including topics of interfaces, interaction, agency, and culture). Feel free to browse, and we encourage suggestions for material to be added. This site is currently reachable either via Web browsers, Gopher (port 70), Fetch, or through anonymous ftp (ftp.actlab.us). Note: All file downloads and uploads to the ACTLab are logged. If you do not wish to have your uploads and downloads logged, then do not use this site.
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