Fwd: thundergulch dialogues: race in digital space

June 13, 2002

Type: discussion

>Subject: thundergulch dialogues: race in digital space
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:20:58 -0400
>From: "Erin Donnelly" <[email protected]>
>
>Thundergulch Dialogues:
>Race in Digital Space
>
>Thursday, June 20th, 6:00 PM, 2002 — FREE
>56th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues
>
>Directions: The Sony Wonder Technology Lab is located on 56th Street
>between Madison and Fifth Avenues. Take the 4/5/6 trains to
>59th/Lexington Avenue, the E/V trains to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street, or
>the N/R trains to Fifth Avenue/60th Street. Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and
>M57.
>
>Featuring:
>
>LEAH GILLIAM, Assistant Professor of Film & Electronic Arts, Division of
>the Arts, Bard College
>
>TANA HARGEST, Curator of New Media Initiatives, The Bronx Museum of the
>Arts
>
>PAMELA JENNINGS, Assistant Professor, School of Art and the Human
>Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
>
>ERIKA DALYA MUHAMMAD, Writer and curator
>
>THUNDERGULCH, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural
>Council, is pleased to present conversations with artists from the
>Studio Museum in Harlem's acclaimed exhibit "Race in Digital Space."
>Organized by guest curator, Erika Dalya Muhammad, "Race in Digital
>Space" featured the work of over 50 artists using film, video, audio,
>and digital media to explore how technology influences and changes
>social ideas of race and ethnicity.
>
>The evening features: Leah Gilliam's "Split: Whiteness, Retrofuturism,
>Omega Man," a CD-ROM that examines narratives of race and gender in the
>science fiction genre through manipulated texts and images; Tana
>Hargest's "Bitter Nigger, Inc.," a humorous, albeit biting web
>work/installation exploring racism through the mediation of the
>pharmaceutical, entertainment, and consumer cultures; and Pamela
>Jennings's CD-ROM "Solitaire: dream journal," a three-dimensional
>computer game used to navigate through graphically luscious and
>sonically rich dream journals.
>_______________
>S P E A K E R S:
>
>LEAH GILLIAM is Assistant Professor of Film & Electronic Arts, Division
>of the Arts, Bard College. Her media projects have been exhibited
>widely in such venues as Thread Waxing Space; the Museum of Contemporary
>Art (Chicago); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney
>Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco International Film
>Festival.
>
>TANA HARGEST is a multimedia artist and Curator of New Media Initiatives
>at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the
>Walker Art Center as part of the screening and exhibition Women in the
>Director's Chair, at The Studio Museum in Harlem as part of the
>traveling exhibition Freestyle, and at GAle GAtes et al. as part of the
>group show Mimic.
>
>PAMELA JENNINGS is Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
>with a joint appointment in the School of Art in the College of Fine
>Arts and Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer
>Science. Jennings is the author New Media Arts | New Funding Models, a
>report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and papers and reviews
>of her work have appeared in numerous books and journals. She has
>received New York State Council on the Arts grants and is a MacDowell
>Artist Colony Fellow and CAiiA-STAR research consortium member.
>http://digital-bauhaus.com/
>
>ERIKA DALYA MUHAMMAD is a curator and writer. Muhammad explores how
>digital encounters and cut-and-mix culture work to transform issues of
>race, ethnicity, and nationhood. In addition to curating the "Race in
>Digital Space" exhibition (with travels to the Spelman College Museum of
>Fine Arts this Fall), Muhammad has held curatorial positions at both the
>Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Museum of the Moving
>Image.
>
>———————————————————–
>Reservations are not required but for further information please contact
>Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch at (212)219-9401 x106,
>[email protected], or Erin Donnelly, Visual and Media Arts Program
>Associate, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at (212)219-9401 x107 or
>[email protected]
>
>Support for Thundergulch audience development is provided by American
>Express Company. Funding for Thundergulch is generously provided by
>Cowles Charitable Trust, Experimental Television Center, the Greenwall
>Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the May and Samuel Rudin
>Family Foundation. This project is made possible, in part, with public
>funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program and the Media Arts
>Technical Assistance Fund of the New York State Council on the Arts, a
>State Agency. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from
>the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
>
>http://www.lmcc.net
>http://www.thundergulch.org
>http://www.sonywondertechlab.com/
>
>
>Thundergulch, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural
>Council
>
>Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
>145 Hudson Street, Suite 801, New York, NY 10013
>212-219-9401
>212-219-2058 fax
>[email protected]
>
>Liz Thompson, Executive Director
>Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual & Media Arts
>Erin Donnelly, Visual & Media Arts Program Associate
>Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch