The ways in which technology touches all aspects of life will be featured at Buffalo State College's fourth annual Technology Fair, to be held March 21, Apr. 3, Apr. 22 and Apr. 23.

Sponsored by the Faculty and Staff Technology Development Center and the Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtables, the event's schedule follows.

March 21: Art Worlds

• "Online Publishing and Democratizing the Production of Knowledge"
  
  Scott Schaffer, editor and professor of sociology, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
  
  2 p.m.-3 p.m., Burchfield-Penney Art Center



• "Art-Informatics: Pursuing Digital Access at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery"
  
  Richard Cherry, chief information officer, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  
  3 p.m.-4 p.m., Burchfield-Penney Art Center



• Piano Recital
  
  Jason Walling, Buffalo State College student
  
  4 p.m.- 5 p.m., Burchfield-Penney Art Center



• "Jazz Places" piano performance
  
  Howard Becker, author and professor of sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, with bassist and Southtowns Youth Orchestra conductor Bill Staebell
  
  7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Apr. 3: Do-it-yourself Genetics

• "Deleuze and the Use of Genetic Algorithms in Architecture"
  
  Manuel DeLanda, author and professor of architecture, Columbia University
  
  2 p.m.-3 p.m., Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  
  Reception and book-signing to follow

Apr. 22 Sociology in the Age of Intelligent Machines

• "A Hybrid Method: Exploring the Ethnographic Possibilities of Digital Audio Production"
  
  Aimee Van Wagenen Wrin, sociology student, Boston College
  
  10 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Sociology Conference, Burchfield-Penney Art Center
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  "Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood in Urban America Today"
  
  Greg Dimitriadis, professor of educational leadership and policy, University at Buffalo
  
  8 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Sociology Conference, Burchfield-Penney Art Center
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  "The Plane of Code: Enunciating the Real"
  
  Ross Glover, visiting lecturer in sociology, St. Lawrence University
  
  8 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Sociology Conference, Burchfield-Penney Art Center



• Film Presentation: "Roadshow for the Flesh Eating Future"
  
  Arthur Kroker, professor of political science, Concordia University, Montreal;
  
  Marilouise Kroker, editor, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Concordia University, Montreal
  
  2 p.m.-3 p.m., Burchfield-Penney Art Center



• "Ocular Proshetics: Visuality and Intersubjectivity"
  
  Lisa Cartwright, professor of English and visual and cultural studies, University of Rochester;
  
  Brian Goldfarb, professor of art, University of Rochester
  
  3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m., Burchfield-Penney Art Center

Apr. 23: Venus in Microsoft

• "Magic and the Machine: Cybernetics and the Power of Fascination"
  
  Stephen Pfohl, professor of sociology, Boston College
  
  2 p.m.-3 p.m., Albright-Knox Art Gallery



• Panel discussion on "Magic and the Machine: Cybernetics and the Power of Fascination"
  
  Arthur Kroker, professor of political science, Concordia University, Montreal;
  
  Marilouise Kroker, editor, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Concordia University, Montreal;
  
  Bruce Jackson, professor of English, University at Buffalo;
  
  Larry Flood, dean of Natural and Social Sciences, Buffalo State College
  
  3 p.m.-4 p.m., Albright-Knox Art Gallery

A reception and poster session from the college's 2001 Transformative Technology Initiatives to Invigorate Instructional Practices (TIP) Challenge grants will follow from 4 p.m.-6

"A Multidisciplinary Conference: Opportunities and Challenges: Using Technology to Enhance Higher Education Instruction and Learning"

Carmen Iannaccone, exceptional education

"The Interactive Classroom"

Stephen Vermette, earth sciences and science education

"High Performance Computing"

Scott Crass, mathematics

For more information, visit the Technology Fair website at http://www.buffalostate.edu/offices/fast/techfair/.