The Cornell campus will host a two-day, international art and theory workshop on a hot topic -- "Digital Terror" -- Friday, Sept. 20, and Saturday, Sept. 21.
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, CTHEORY Multimedia, the university's Visual Studies Program and Cornell Library, the workshop will include discussion on the broad spectrum of artistic responses to digital terror. The program is free and open to the public.
"In keeping with the late Cornell Professor Rose Goldsen's relentless critique of the impact of the media on society, an important group of international artists and scholars will gather to discuss the complex interface of digitality and terror in world culture, including work on surveillance, digital artwork addressing the broad erosion of human rights via digital means and machineries, as well as the counterpart of ethnic anxieties in the wake of the expansion of the digital divide," said Timothy Murray, Cornell professor of English and comparative literature and director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video.
The workshop also will serve as the launch and preview of two significant digital artistic archives at Cornell:
·Following the events of 9/11, the co-curators of the electronic art journal CTHEORY Multimedia, (published by Cornell Library) -- Murray, Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker -- decided to plan a special issue that, they said, not only would be reflective of the confusing and tragic events of last year, but also reflect artistically on their confusing roots and the potential fallout of the erosion of human rights by digital surveillance and tracking systems. The result is a special issue, "Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia" -- http://ctheorymultimedia.edu -- which will be launched at the workshop.
·At the opening of the workshop, Associate University Librarian H. Thomas Hickerson, of Cornell Library, will announce the creation of the Rose Goldsen Archive of Digital Multimedia Art, to be curated by Murray and housed in the library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. "The archive will provide the Cornell community with pedagogical access to artistic productions on CD-Rom, DVD-Rom and the Internet, and it promises to be one of the most extensive holdings of digital interactive art in North America," Murray said.
The workshop also is cosponsored at Cornell by the Graduate Program in Film and Video; Society for the Humanities; College of Architecture, Art and Planning; Department of Art; concentration in French Studies; Department of Science and Technology Studies; Information Science Program; Department of History of Art; and Department of English.
The agenda for the two-day workshop, with a list of the presenters and their topics, is included in today's Cornell Chronicle calendar under Symposiums.
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