Skeuomorphs - Garnet Hertz - UC Irvine "An ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques"

This event explored how cultural objects shift over time, with each presenter exploring a single term related to patterns of cultural change.

Garnet Hertz is an interdisciplinary artist, Fulbright Scholar and is an affiliate of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. He has shown his work at several notable international venues in eleven countries including Ars Electronica, DEAF and SIGGRAPH and was awarded the prestigious 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotics. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press on his workhas disseminated through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo and CNN Headline News.