Hosted by the 91��ɫ Libraries, interPLAY will take place Monday, March 26, from 9am to 7pm, in��the Senate Chamber, 940 South Ross Building, and the Scott Library on the Keele campus.��

The symposium is informed by the ongoing publication of the , an experimental online catalogue raisonné (or complete list) currently being developed at the 91��ɫ Libraries by Adam Lauder��(left), the University's inaugural��W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship.

Lauder is working to develop the catalogue raisonné with��Canadian Conceptual artist (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name),��and an international team of collaborators.��The development of the catalogue offers an ideal��opportunity to respond to the visionary information art of IAIN BAXTER& with fresh approaches to information, information technology, and library and information science from across the disciplinary spectrum.

Inspired by Canadian scholar and philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s transformation of information theory, from a “matching” model of communication to one of active “making”, IAIN BAXTER& began in 1966 to explore the creative possibilities of “information” as a medium.��The 45-year process of exploration that followed has led��the��conceptual artist��to engage with, and creatively reinterpret, information concepts across a range of disciplines, including business, computing, and linguistics.

Marshall McLuhan

University��of British Columbia English Professor��Richard Cavell, author of McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (University of Toronto Press, 2003) will present the symposium's keynote address. Cavell's book was the first to��propose that Marshall McLuhan be read as a spatial theorist.

To learn more about other presenters and symposium proceedings and to register, visit the website.����

More about Adam Lauder

Lauder has joined the Libraries for a two-year term as the first W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship. He holds a master in information studies��from the University of Toronto and a masters in��art history��from Concordia University.

His research project encompasses many areas of e-librarianship including critical information studies, digital archives, scholarly communication and metadata standards. Lauder is applying��the catalogue raisonné publication model in an online environment, with a focus��on IAIN BAXTER&.

Republished courtesy of YFile– 91��ɫ’s daily e-bulletin.

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