Reminder - Rives - Tonight Oct. 8th - 8pm

[Lauren Milroy]

Rives will be kicking off with the first of the Fall 2008 David H. Liu
Memorial Lecture Series in Design tonight!!

Maps and directions: http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps/

Do you live far away? Rives's lecture will be podcast through
Stanford itunes!

_____________________

Wednesday, Oct. 8th
Building: Pigott Hall, Room: 260-113, Stanford University Campus
8pm

Rives (rhymes with ‘weaves’) designs interactive narratives for
grown-
ups. Part poet, part storyteller, Rives offers audiences uniquely
intelligent and creative entertainment—impossible to categorize for a
print medium like this bio. He’s extraordinarily deft with words,
extremely clever, creative, and intellectually alive. His work bursts
in multiple directions, makes surprising connec tions, and leaves you
gasping and laughing. For his avid use of technology, he’s been
called
“the first 2.0 poet,” incorporating images, video, and text, often
involving audience members.

Rives is the co-host of Bravo channel’s new show Ironic Iconic
America, a unique and whimsical tour of contemporary American culture
debuting October 3, 2008. He is a regular at the annual TED
Conference, where he earns standing ovations. He’s appeared at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on the last four seasons of HBO’s Def
Poetry Jam. He was the 2004 National Poetry Slam champion.
Rives’s clients include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Hallmark, Wieden
+Kennedy, Business Objects, Northwestern Univer sity, and the House
of
Blues.