Workshop launches Ctheory Multimedia, a new Internet art journal

A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell University Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia, a semiannual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring. Ctheory Multimedia's first issue, titled "Tech Flesh: The Promise and Perils of the Humane Genome Project," will be published later this month. Previews of the upcoming issue can be accessed at http://ctheory.concordia.ca/, and a Cornell URL is forthcoming.

Stelarc, a performance artist who experiments with robotics, will give a lecture/demonstration at 4:30 p.m. Friday in 157 E. Sibley Hall. The event is part of a weekend workshop to help launch Ctheory Multimedia, a new Internet art journal.

Workshop events occur as follows: Friday, April 20, Olin Library

• 1:30 p.m., Kroch Library Lecture Room: Opening remarks, Tim Murray, Cornell professor of English; H. Thomas Hickerson, Cornell associate university librarian.

• 2 p.m. "Clone Time," Rebecca Schneider, Cornell professor of theatre, film and dance.

• 2:45 p.m. "Transgenic Art, " Arthur Kroker, professor of government, Concordia University.

• 4:30 p.m. 157 E. Sibley Hall: Lecture-demonstration by Stelarc, a performance artist who experiments with robotics and digital interfaces with the human body.

Saturday, April 21, Goldwin Smith D

• 9:45 a.m. to noon, "Visual Bodies and Digital Histories," Shadi Nazarian, visiting professor of architecture at Cornell.

• 11 a.m. "Bodies in Parallel Worlds," Marina Grzinic, researcher at the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art and artist-in-residence at the Apex Art Residency Program in New York City.

• 2 p.m. "Digital Moments of Rousseau," Jean-Louise Boissier, director, Multimedia Lab at the University of Paris at St. Denis.

• 3 p.m. "Electronic Borderlands," Priamo Lozada, curator Laboratorio, Arte Alameda, Mexico City.

• 4:30 p.m. "Comparative Visualities," panel discussion with members of the Cornell Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, led by Murray and Naoki Sakai, Cornell professor of Asian Studies.

Edited by Murray, Ctheory Multimedia will be published later this month in collaboration with the journal Ctheory, which was founded in 1993 by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, leading figures in the digital arts movement. The Cornell Library Electronic Publishing Program will publish and archive biannual editions of Internet art projects oriented around conceptual themes, under the direction of Hickerson, director of Cornell's Institute of Digital Collections, and with the aid of a grant from Sun Microsystems.

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Einaudi Center, the Society for the Humanities, the Graduate Program in Film and Video, Cornell Library Electronic Publishing Program and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Cornell Genomics Initiative, among others.

For more information, contact Murray at 285 Goldwin Smith Hall, phone 255-4012 or e-mail tcm1@cornell.edu.