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File consists of two copies of the agenda for the summit, which took place April 25-28, 2002. The program description reads: "The Banff New Media Institute's (BNMI) 2001 Human Generosity Project and Emotional Architectures looked at the potential of collaborative software P2P, and at how cognition, perception and emotion shape our experience of interfaces. Following up on that work, the 2002 program Intimate Technologies/Dangerous Zones focused on the developing invisibility and ubiquity of technology in our lives, and their aesthetic and ethical corollaries.

Mobile and wireless technologies seem to be overtaking laptop and desktop, and computer creators are now designing wearable, personal technologies that adapt to a variety of personalities and uses, effectively creating new, virtual, social spaces. Young people have made great use of mobile phones, creating powerful alternate communities and languages. Cheap, mobile technology seems to be a model for sustaining the peer to peer revolution. The immaterial aura of signal and bandwidth influences the very fabric of our beings, moving us into a realm of constant connectivity-- a dangerous, seductive zone where the frontier between liberty and control, mobility and invasiveness, utility and dysfunction, comfort and menace is blurred and leaking.

We looked at wireless mediation in all areas of human life, working towards an anthropology of usage. We compared differences in infrastructure in North America (LAN, GPS, PA's), the United Kingdom and Europe (WAP, Blue Tooth, Mobiles, SMS), and delved on the engineering and computer science challenges of wireless mediation. Artists have taken up the wireless challenge and are inventors, critics and developers in the mobile universe. We explored how intimate technologies transform ourselves and the way we tell stories, relate, play and work, and how to create positive applications and experiences for these ubiquitous networks and technologies."

File consists of a report by Tom Keenan on the summit titled "Computerworld: Intimate Technologies". The report provides summaries of presentations.

Interview of Isola (née Sevigny) O'Shea conducted by Arlene Borgstede. File consists of register, consent form, and transcript. Also included is the audio cassette recording of the interview.

File consists of an agenda for a workshop run August 14-16, 1997 by Wm Leler and Philip Goward. This workshop was designed for creative technologists, programmers, and artists who wanted to learn the ins and outs of programming in Java. Addressing the use of Java applets, the course outline included: why Java is important, how Java works, security, canned applets, creating applets without programming, object-oriented programming, programming tools, visual café, interaction, and Java class libraries. The class included extensive programming exercises.

Interview of Jean Baptiste Perrault conducted by Dorothy (née Bellerose) Chartrand. File consists of the audio cassette recording of the interview.

File consists of documents surrounding the oral history given by John Brosseau. Includes questionnaire, consent form, and a written copy of Mr. Brosseau's talk on his biography.

Interview of John Cunningham conducted by Arlene Borgstede. File consists of register, consent form, and transcript. Also included is the audio cassette recording of the interview.

Interview of John Vollmer conducted by Arlene Borgstede. File consists of interview notes, transcript, and a copy of David Chevigny's obituary. Also included is the audio cassette recording of the interview.