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The Archaeology of Multi-Media
A Conference at Brown University (Providence RI, U.S.A.) Thursday-Saturday, November 2-4, 2000 http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm For two-and-a-half days, participants in the conference will engage and interrogate rhetoric about electronic media that describes them as fundamentally new, irrevocably transformative and virtually unstoppable. Refusing to rely on descriptions such as "new" and "digital" (for what medium has not at one time been new, or is not now produced digitally?), the conference will highlight mixed-media art and scholarship. It will seek some alternative interpretations and understandings of the singularity of electronic content, context, form, and audience, as well as another map of the ways in which media have always been multiple. Archaeology of Multi-Media seeks to integrate historical scholarship and emerging modes of media theory, and to link the study of multimedia with existing work on 'traditional' media, as it opens some emergent spaces of mixture and multiplicity in present research and action. In order to do this, we will launch the conference with a performance/lecture Thursday night by the digital collective Mongrel (a U.K.- and Jamaica-based artists group set up to explore issues of race, technology and new-eugenics, and an agency to co-ordinate and set up other new media projects so that those locked out of the mainstream can gain strength without getting locked into power structures). This event will be followed on Friday and Saturday by eight ninety-minute panels, as well as student mixed-media displays, covering issues like: film, television and video, and print and or as electronic media; language and systems; conflict media; identity and difference; and social movements. "The Archaeology of Multi-Media" brings together an international group of scholars, artists, activists, and technologists, including: Geoffrey Batchen (cultural criticism/history of photography; University of New Mexico, U.S.A.) James Der Derian (international relations; Brown University, U.S.A.) Richard Dienst (cultural criticism/visual media; Rutgers University, U.S.A.) Thomas Elsaesser (film/television/new media theory; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Wolfgang Ernst (history/classics/archaeology/museology/media studies; University of Bochum, Germany) Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project; Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, U.S.A.) Graham Harwood (artist/programmer/co-ordinator; Mongrel, U.K.) Ken Hillis (theories of communication technologies/virtual Geography/social and political identities; University of North Carolina, U.S.A.) Mervin Jarman (artist/programmer/co-ordinator; Mongrel, Jamaica) Thomas Keenan (human rights/literary theory/media studies; Bard College, U.S.A.) Lev Manovich (artist, theorist and critic of new media; University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.) Tara McPherson (gender and critical studies/television/new media/popular culture; University of Southern California, U.S.A.) Thomas Levin (media and cultural history and theory; Princeton University, U.S.A.) Geert Lovink (media theorist and activist; Adilkno + De Waag + many others, Netherlands) Nick Mirzeoff (visual culture/art history; SUNY Stony Brook, U.S.A.) Lisa Nakamura (postcolonial studies/critical theory; Sonoma State, U.S.A.) Renata Salecl (sociology, criminology, and philosophy; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Cornelia Vismann (rhetoric and media techniques of law; European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)) This conference, supported by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and organized by the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, is free and open to the public but registration is required. Please register either on the web or by emailing amm@brown.edu. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.modcult.brown.edu/amm. |