In the email today... >Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:58:33 -0700 >From: Peter Lunenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: mediawork 15 | Post '89 Theory > >--apologies for multiple postings-- > >mediawork 15 | Post '89 Theory >Saturday | February 12 | 1-6 PM | LAT Media Center >Art Center College of Design Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street Pasadena, California 91103-1999 >1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and communism imploded, has replaced >1968 as the defining moment for contemporary theory. Unfortunately, most >intellectuals are still using the concepts that they picked up from the >generation of '68 to deal with the electronic, networked, market-oriented >culture that emerged from the events of '89. The panelists participating in >this roundtable, on the other hand, posit Post '89 theories that >self-consciously live in, with and through new communication technologies. >They reject the notion that every instance of cultural consumption should be >read in reverse as an act of resistance, and they acknowledge market forces >without necessarily embracing them. > >Join Sara Diamond from the Banff Centre for the Arts, international media >activist Geert Lovink, new media theorist Peter Lunenfeld, digital >artist/theorist Lev Manovich, and RTMark, the corporation which sponsors >sabotage of mass-produced products, as they discuss (and no doubt disagree >on) these issues and more in the latest installment of mediawork: The >Southern California New Media Working Group. > >Following mediawork, at 6:00 PM Art Center's Williamson Gallery is hosting >an opening reception for "Stiffs," an interactive, computer generated video >art installation by Jennifer Steinkamp and Jimmy Johnson. RSVP to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Directions to Art Center can be found at ><www.artcenter.edu>. The LAT Times Media Center is on the lower level, park >in the student lot. > >Panelists: > >Sara Diamond is an artist, curator, and executive producer of new media. She >is responsible for all media, visual art, and new media research at the >Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. <www.banffcentre.ab.ca/mva> > >Geert Lovink is an international media activist and theorist who maintains a >mailing address in Amsterdam. Co-founder of the essential <nettime> mailing >list, he has coordinated innumerable public events and publications, >including the Hybrid Workshop at documenta X, and Readme!: ASCII Culture and >the Revenge of Knowledge (Autonomedia, 1998). <www.nettime.org> > >Peter Lunenfeld, the founder of mediawork, teaches in Art Center's graduate >program in Communication & New Media Design. Editor of The Digital >Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999), he writes the "User" >column in art/text, and his book, Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital >Arts, Media, and Culture (MIT Press, 2000), will be published in April. > >Lev Manovich teaches studio and theory classes in digital arts at the >University of California, San Diego. Co-editor of Tekstura: Russian Essays >on Visual Culture. (Chicago, 1993), his book, The Language of New Media >(MIT, 2000) will be published in the fall. Recent art projects include >"Little Movies" and "The Freud-Lissitsky Navigator" (with Norman Klein). ><visarts.ucsd.edu/~manovich> > >RTMark is a brokerage that benefits from "limited liability" just like any >other corporation; using this principle, RTMark supports the sabotage >(informative alteration) of corporate products by channeling funds from >investors to workers, seeking cultural not financial profit. RTMark's web >site and promotional video have been selected for inclusion in this year's >Whitney Biennial. <www.RTMark.com>
