New Media Forum II
Presented by the Maryland Institute College of Art
and the Center for New Media
Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 7:00 PM*
Mount Royal Station Auditorium (S3)
Reception will follow
(* Please Note: Change of Date)
"Media in Times of Crisis"
Moderated by Timothy Druckrey
The signs are everywhere that this is a time of crisis: the crisis of art, of the economy, of information, of identity, of globalization, of the spirit, of modernity, of post-modernity, of cyber-modernity, of terrorism, the list goes on. The study of the use of media in times of crisis (both historical and contemporary) is an essential component of any comprehensive understanding of the link between reliable information and credible, meaningful communication in electronic culture. For those of us in the field of media studies, this presents a deep crisis of the media itself. It signifies a troubling realignment in the accumulation and distribution of information in an environment in which a "fatal attraction for instantaneity" is linked with conceptualizing momentous cultural change.
This is particularly true as the siege of Washington and New York are reverberating wildly with both substantive information and wild speculation. French writer Paul Virilio reminded us during the Gulf War, that "images have become munitions." The opposite has also become true, that munitions have become images. This forum will be focused on developing an open dialogue that looks directly at recent events and situate them critically in the history of media.
Panelists:
Timothy Druckrey, Moderator - Media theorist, curator, and faculty member of the Maryland Institute College of Art; Druckrey co-edited Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology and edited Iterations: The New Image, Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, and Net_Condition: Art and Global Media.
Steve Kovats - Editor of Media Revolution. Electronic Media in the Transformation Process of Eastern and Central Europe and a teacher and initiator of international projects in the fields of architecture and electronic arts.
Martha Rosler - Video artist, photographer, and author in media issues from the Visual Arts Department at Rutgers University; her work has been exhibited in "Documenta 7," and in several Whitney biennials.
New Media Forum is a series of panel discussions presented by the Center for New Media of the Maryland Institute College of Art. The series is moderated by MICA faculty to include guest artists, engineers, designers, and scholars from the Baltimore area and beyond. The Forum focuses on critical perspectives that attempt to make sense of the changing cultural phenomena resulting from the emergence of new technologies.
Upcoming panels:
Will Larson, February 19, 2002
"Situated Realities And the New Techno-realism"
An examination of the re-formation of the photograph and its representational implications within the context of this new computed realism.
Ellen Lupton, April, 2002
"Skin: Engineering the Body, Art/Design/Media"
An exploration of how contemporary artists have responded to the radical, sometimes alarming, transformation of nature by using tools and ideas from medicine, biology, design, and digital media.
