On September 18th, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, HERE in the world is Carmen Sandiego! Join an interactive archival screening and discussion as we look at the work of a maker too seldom discussed as part of western Pennsylvania’s media history: Dorothy Curley Tecklenburg. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was a producer and director with the experimental television station QUBE. This pioneering development in broadcasting utilized digital technology to blur the line between viewers and users, allowing people to interact in real time with television programming. Later in the 80s, Curley Tecklenburg co-created an early adaptation of a computer game into live action television with the classic Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (a co-production of Pittsburgh’s own WQED.)
Curley Tecklenburg and QUBE/Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? collaborator Howard Blumenthal will both join us in-person for this very special evening. This event will take the form of an interactive game show, with audience participation prompting clips from QUBE, Carmen Sandiego episodes and gameplay, and other footage relevant to the development of digital media in/around Pittsburgh.
This event is co-sponsored by Pittsburgh Sound + Image and the Bernadette Callery Archives Lecture Series at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information.
