Anne Balsamo

Designer of Cultural Technologies that Support Cultural Remembering

Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between the culture and technology. This focus informs her 20 years of practice as a teacher, scholar, researcher, new media designer, and entrepreneur. She is currently a Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. From 2004-2007, she served as the Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC. As a techno-humanist at-large, she was a founding member of the virtual organization HASTAC—a collaboratory of digital humanists and technologists. Her current areas of research include the design and creation of public interactives. In 2002, she co-founded Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. From 1998-2002, she was a Principle Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She served as project manager and new media designer for the development of RED's interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Her recently published transmedia book project, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke UP, 2011) examines the relationship between cultural reproduction and technological innovation.

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