Sally Applin: Anthropologist Studies Makers

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Partner:: Maker Faire
Location:: San Mateo Fairgrounds
San Mateo, CA
Event Date:: 05.22.11
Speaker:: Sally Applin
Tags:: anthropunk

Summary: AnthroPunk is a movement that is concerned with how people promote, manage, resist, endure and create change. It assumes that individual people collectively make the world around them, not only from the materials and ideas available to them but from new materials and ideas they construct. There are limits imposed by materials, but the application of ideas constantly transforms these into new possibilities, and new limits. In this talk, Sally Applin, a Ph.D. student at the University of Kent at Canterbury's Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, will explore the role that we all have as makers of culture.

Due to technical difficulties, a portion of this presentation contains downgraded video quality from 10:55 to 12:10.

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Sally Applin

Sally A. Applin is a Ph.D. student at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, in the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC). She holds a Masters degree from the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU/ITP) within New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and a BA in Conceptual Design from San Francisco State University. Sally has had a 20 year career in the science museum design, computer software, telecommunications, and product design/definition industries working as a Senior UX Designer, Ethnographic Researcher and Senior Consultant.

At Kent, Sally is advised by Dr. Michael D. Fischer, Professor of Anthropological Sciences, Director of CSAC, and Director of Innovation. Dr. Fischer is the founder of AnthroPunk, a movement that examines how people promote, manage, resist and endure change; hack their lives (and those of others); and create the context of the individuation of their experiences. Sally is a founding member of AnthroPunk and is currently researching the impact of technology on culture, and the consequent inverse: specifically the reifications of Virtual Space in Personal Space.