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<nettime-ann> [ann] Digital Culture class at Berkeley Art Museum |
. DIGITAL CULTURE 0101: A New Public Course at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Thursday evenings, October 5-November 9 http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/courses How does digital media influence our perception and experience of space and time? What are its social implications? The first offering in an exciting new initiative to present public courses at BAM/PFA, Digital Culture 0101 gives you a chance to discuss issues like these with artists and experts in the field, and promises a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to new media as they reflect and interact with our culture. Digital Culture 0101 and other upcoming courses are designed to expand on BAM/PFA's exhibitions and programs to provide new contexts and ways of interacting with the arts. A spring 2007 class will explore the art and implications of the BAM exhibition Measure of Time. Like the popular PFA film-lecture course Film 50, these classes are open to the general public as well as UC Berkeley students (see below for registration details). Digital Culture 0101 draws upon the museum's pioneering use of digital media and its commitment to digital art, within the larger contexts of UC Berkeley's increasing attention to new media and the Bay Area as a center of digital culture. The course offers a non-technical look at issues surrounding digital media through the lens of digital art, with special attention to works now on view in Measure of Time. With session topics like "space and time," "the body," "interactivity," "social context," and "collective memory," the instructor and guest speakers including Ken Goldberg, Scott Snibbe, Camille Utterback, Jon Phillips, all practicing digital media artists, will address such questions as: - What is digital media and what makes it different from other media? - How do people and computers interact with one another? - What does it mean to be interactive? - Can we believe what we see through digital media? - Although we have more information than ever, are we becoming more forgetful? The course will be taught by Richard Rinehart, BAM/PFA's director of digital media and a nationally exhibited new media artist. Rinehart has taught at UC Berkeley for six years, currently in the Center for New Media. A leader in the world of digital media and museums, he has also curated exhibitions of digital art. Course Schedule and Syllabus When: Thursday evenings, October 5-November 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Museum Theater Cost: $225 for six-session course; $175 for BAM/PFA members and non-UCB students; free for UC Berkeley students Advance Registration Required: Online: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/courses By phone: (510) 642-5249, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily In person: at the museum's Bancroft lobby admissions desk _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann