Laine Nooney Artist Talk: How Computing Became Personal

Description

Laine Nooney is a technology researcher who travels, writes, researches and speaks internationally on video game and computer history, inclusivity and diversity in tech culture, and related topics. Laine is currently writing a corporate and cultural history of the home entertainment software company Sierra On-Line, entitled "Before We Were Gamers: Sierra On-Line and the Archaeology of Video Game History." She is the Online Media Editor for the Journal of Visual Culture, an advisor to the Softalk Apple Preservation Project, and co-organizor of the first Different Games Conference.  At the moment, Laine is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, at New York University.