24th Annual Women Direct Series at Ithaca College Probes Reverse Engineering: Digitalities, Sensualities, Technologies
The 24th Annual Women Direct series explores the connections between feminist politics, post-colonial theories and new media this Spring in a new format featuring lectures and screenings from nationally prominent film/video/new media scholars. This year�s series, Reverse Engineering: Digitalities, Sensualities, Technologies, examines how critical studies and media arts practices have migrated from a focus on the image towards an interrogation of networks and interfaces. The term reverse engineering denotes an analytical and mechanical process where a technology is taken apart in order to rebuild a better functioning new model. The first presentation is on Tuesday, February 15 at 2:35 in Park Auditorium, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York with a lecture and presentation by Dr. Timothy Murray, �Body Politics in New Media Art.� Dr. Murray is Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University. Murray teaches new media, film, and visual studies at Cornell. He is Co-Curator of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA and curates international exhibitions. He has written essays and catalogue entries for the ZKM, Macau Museum of Art in Macau, China, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and low-fi.org in London. His books include Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, Canvas (Routledge, 1997) and Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997). He is completing a book, forthcoming from Minnesota, Digitality and the Memory of Cinema: Baroque Theory and Cultural Memory. The longest continuously running feminist film/video/new media series on the East Coast, Women Direct has featured over 250 media artists and scholars since its inception. Barbara Adams, Writing, and Patricia R. Zimmermann, Cinema and Photography and coordinator of the Culture and Communication Program in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, founded the program in 1981 to bring diverse work in all genres to campus across a range of issues to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange and debate about feminist politics and media arts. For over two decades, Women Direct has operated as an interdisciplinary initiative between the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the School of Humanities and Sciences. This year�s series is programmed by Adams, Zimmermann, Anna Siomopoulos (Cinema and Photography) and Dale Hudson (Cinema and Photography). Reverse Engineering: Digitalities, Sensualities, Technologies is funded by the Department of Cinema and Photography, the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. All Women Direct events are free and open to the public. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
