War Report - Media as Weapon

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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:34:07 -0400
From: Teri Chan <[email protected]>
To: Teri Chan <[email protected]>
Subject: FW: [Panel Discussion] "War Report-Media as Weapon" - Goethe
Institut/LMCC

The Goethe-Institut New York is featuring the panel discussion
"War Report - Media as Weapon: The Aesthetic of Selective Visibility" in
conjunction with
the Lower Manhattan Culture Council, New York.


Date: October 9, 2003 at 5 p.m.
Location: Goethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Avenue at 82nd street

Admission free
For reservations and information please call Goethe-Institut (212) 439 -
8700

War photographers, war correspondents, media artists, and media
theorists discuss the phenomenon of "live transmission from the theater
of conflict and its impact on a global audience" (Michael Najjar,
artist, whose work on this theme will be concurrently on view in the
Goethe-Institue Gallery). Real-time war has developed into a new kind of
war, with a new kind of immediacy, viewed worldwide, in which the
crucial and supreme weapon is the technical image itself.

Participants:
Prof. Dr. Bazon Brock, professor of philosophy and aesthetics,
Wuppertal, Germany; Don North, embedded American journalist during the
2003 Iraq war, Washington; Michael Najjar, photographer, media artist,
Berlin; Prof. Patricia Riley, Annenberg School of Communication, Los
Angeles.

Moderator: Prof. Allen Feldman, Department of Culture and Communication,
NYU, New York


Special thanks to Wayne Ashley, project consultant, Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council