Upcoming Workshops and Seminars: 

Quinnipiac University | Women's Studies program to present
"Cyborg Mommy" on March 3, 2004
The Women's Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts will present "Cyborg Mommy," a multimedia performance that examines the increasing technological encroachment upon everyday life, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3 in Alumni Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

Pattie Belle Hastings, assistant professor of computer science and interactive digital design at Quinnipiac, plays Cyborg Mommy, a persona who combines humor and poignancy to demonstrates how it came to be that "everything she knows about computers she learned from her mother." For more information, please call 203-582-8652.

SUNY Plattsburgh Women's Studies Program to present
"History of the Cyborg: a cyberfeminist retelling of the
relationship between woman and machine" on April 1, 2004
Pattie Belle Hastings will present and discuss pieces and processes from her new body of work, “History of the Cyborg,” which exposes the historical timeline of woman and machine while laying the framework of hysterical/historical “proof.” As with the evening performance of Cyborg Mommy, these new works tell a story that includes the invisible women without whom there would be no technological world. “Women have been mostly left out of the technological timeline (except as consuming units for manufacturing and advertising, or in the case of reproductive technologies - the bodies that carry the babies), so I am excavating the lost history of woman/machine and reintroduce it using art, image, video, sound, and text.” These new works embody hybridity, absurdity, parody, and capitulation in the merging of flesh and technology, woman and machine.

SUNY Plattsburgh Visiting Artist Lecture Series to present
“Cyborg Mommy” on April 1, 2004
Pattie Belle Hastings, assistant professor of computer science and interactive digital design at Quinnipiac University will present “Cyborg Mommy,” a multimedia performance that examines the increasing technological encroachment upon everyday life, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, 2004.

Past Workshops and Seminars: 

Celebrating Women's Creativity Conference
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Saturday March 22, 2003
Creating Time: a time management workshop for creative people
contact Pattie Belle for more info.

Creative Arts Workshop
New Haven, CT
Saturday and Sunday, May 3&4, 10-4
How to Fill a Blank Book
This workshop will cover tools, techniques, and media for working in previously bound books from the initial stages of idea development to the final visit in the book press. A few of the techniques and media that will be covered include collage (in the largest sense of the word), post-binding printing methods, rubbings, transfers, stamping, scrapbooking, and cutting. Content research and creation techniques such as the juxtaposition of word and image; pacing and rhythm of content; and visual journaling will also be covered. CAW 203-562-4927.

Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
Providence, RI
April 25-26, 2003
Creating Interactive Course Materials Using Adobe Acrobat PDF
Friday, April 25th, 9:00am

PDF Conference
Bethesda, MD
June 2-4, 2003
Tuesday, June 3,
9:45 am - Breaking the Rules
2:00 pm - PDF as a Presentation Tool
Pattie Belle Hastings and Sandee Cohen

Online Seminars: 

Creating Time: a time management workshop for creative people
Interactive eBook

Zen of the Pen
Precision pen tool mastery - all applications

Available Workshops and Presentations: 

Acrobat Master Class
Two-day, one-day, and customizable sessions based on the book and team taught by Sandee Cohen and Pattie Belle Hastings (Adobe Certified Expert) - contact Pattie Belle for more info.

Creating Time: a time management workshop for creative people
Unconventional wisdom on time available in half day, one-day or customizable sessions - contact Pattie Belle for more info.

Cyborg Mommy
Multimedia performance presentation -
contact Pattie Belle for more info.