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--------Original message-------- Reply-To: "CTHEORY Editor" <ctech@alcor.concordia.ca> ____________________________________________________________________ CTHEORY THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Special Announcement: CTHEORY Multimedia @ CORNELL ____________________________________________________________________ CTHEORY Multimedia @ CORNELL Edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker & Timothy Murray Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors of CTHEORY are pleased to announce that Timothy Murray, Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video at Cornell University, is joining them as a Coeditor of CTHEORY Multimedia. A new media site for electronic art projects and new media theory, CTHEORY Multimedia will be published and hosted by the Cornell University Library's Electronic Publishing Program. Beginning Spring, 2001, CTHEORY Multimedia will publish semi-annual collections of electronic art and theory to be organized around conceptual themes. The first Cornell volume will appear in Spring, 2001. This multimedia journal will be disseminated electronically from the Cornell Digital Library and subsequently archived on the Library's server. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Deadline March 31, 2001 TECH FLESH: The Promise and Perils of the Human Genome Project The Coeditors of CTHEORY Multimedia seek finished projects of electronic art ready to be mounted on-line. CTHEORY Multimedia will examine the simultaneously ethical, social and ideological issues raised by the Human Genome Project. Widely hyped as a "bible of life" and a "map" to the future of human evolution, the Human Genome Project throws into sharp ethical relief critical social issues raised by this newest phase in eugenic experimentation. Simultaneously speaking in terms of the language of facilitation (post-genetics as about the eradication of disease and the extension of the human life span) and in the language of control (genetic sequencing as the latest pharmaceutical version of the social hygiene movement), the Human Genome Project with its vision of pure genes and designer biology raises again not only the specter of scientific hubris but also the silent political interests of a potential genetic superclass. With the collaboration of Eugene Thacker (Rutgers University), this issue of CTHEORY Multimedia will be devoted to a diversity of perspectives on the promise and perils of the Human Genome Project. Artists and theorists working in electronic multimedia and net.art are invited to provide an alternative, critical vision of the genome and its infotech-ideology. What are the artistic ramifications of paradigms of cloning, transgenic humans, disabled embryos, digital sequencing, and nanotechnology? This is the tactic of multimedia cDNA as a distributed informatic critique. Please send a description of your project, including conceptual abstract and technical format, to the CTHEORY Multimedia Coeditors ctech@alcor.concordia.ca. To view the first issue of CTHEORY Multimedia on-line please visit: http://ctheory.concordia.ca/. CTHEORY can be accessed at www.ctheory.com. __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold