NewTechForum
A series of public
presentations exploring the intersections
of the arts, culture & new technologies.
Support provided by the Film and Media Arts Department,
Temple University, and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts,
a program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
spring 2004
May 24-26: Peter d'Agostino and David Tafler
Techno/Cultural
Identities: from Ships to GigaBits
This paper and its accompanying presentation of i @ lab
projects
explores the shift from the Age of Exploration to the
Digital Age within the context
of technologies, cultures and
the identities they embody.
Athens Institute for Education and
Research, Greece
International Conference on Communication Mass Media.
Takahiko Iimura is a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video
who is serving
as a Visiting Artist in the Film and Media Arts Dept. He will be
presenting lectures and developing
a collaborative Interactive Arts & Technology
Lab project with additional support from the Tokyo Foundation. Presentations
on Feb 2, 11,
25, and March 24.
fall 2003
October 27: Don Foresta The Network Paradigm
"A synthesis of real-time imaging, computation and telecommunications ...
is becoming the
institutional expression of our future society. The
interactive network is becoming
the metaphor of our civilisation and its
geometry, the geometry of our imagination ."
Dr Foresta is a Senior Research Fellow at the Wimbledon School of Art in
London, a
professor at the Ecole Nationale Supèrieure d'Arts - Paris/Cergy,
and the founding
director of the Marcel network.
spring 2003
April 11 & 12: Between
Earth & Sky: a prelude
A program focusing on the convergence of Islamic, Christian and
Jewish cultures around the millennium
in the city of Cordoba, Spain.
Installation: Cordoban Ceilings by Peter d'Agostino & Maurice Wright
Symposium: Kristine
Stiles, Earth & Sky: In a Contemporary Arts Context
Montserrat Piera, Cordoba: a Space of Culture and Tolerance
Tracy Cooper, The Poetics of Virtual Architecture: a Historian's Perspective
William Van Wert, readings from The Inquisition of Erasmus
Concert: Mark Rimple, a performance of Sephardic, Arabic, and monastic music.
February 12: Neil Rolnick Internet2: a Performing Arts Medium?
Prof Rolnick presented his work and a recent collaboration with six other
artists in the
development of The Technophobe & The Mad Man ,
a performance work for
Internet2.
Neil Rolnick is Professor of Music in the Arts Department and iEAR
Studios at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY.
spring 2002
February 25: Robert Atkins The
Arts, Community and Activism:
A Meditation Inspired by the Events of September 11th.
"Is
the Internet the last, best hope for artists pursuing social change?
As with the numbing
post-Sept 11 rhetoric about 'patriotism,'
'sacrifice,' and 'change,' are the appropriate issues
being addressed?"
Robert
Atkins is a NY-based art historian, former Village Voice columnist,
and author of ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements
and Buzzwords.
Internet 2 [ in-progress ]
