Digital Poetics and Politics
August 3-10, 2004
An Inter-media Interdisciplinary project

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*SCREENING OF WORK BY SOBHI AL ZOBAIDI, GLENN GEAR AND MATT ROGALSKY, SUNDAY AUG. 8, 6:00PM IN CHERNOFF HALL RM.117

Susan Buck-Morss will be speaking at Queen's University, Chernoff Hall rm.117 on Friday August 6th at 7:00pm, followed by a reception at Leggett Hall.
Susan Buck-Morss is director of Visual Studies, and Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government, Cornell University. She is also Professor in the Department of the History of Art and the field of German Studies. Her books include Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003); Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989); and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1977; republished 2002).

Digital Poetics and Politics: The Work of the Local in the Age of Globalization is a week-long summer institute taking place at Queen's University from August 4-10. The key-note lecture on August 6th will be given by Dr. Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Dept. of Government at Cornell University.

This unique interdisciplinary event aims at bringing media researchers from the humanities and social sciences together with digital media artists and practitioners to explore the effects of globalization policies and technological developments on the politics and poetics of new media uses. Through a series of presentations, demonstrations, exhibitions and lectures, the institute will address topics such as alternative radio practices, sound environments, digital democracy, geographic digital landscapes, web information, and copyright.

Panel discussions and participant lectures will be open to the public on Aug 4th through 6th, starting at 9:30am in Chernoff Hall rm.117. Participants will present their work in an open forum (a full list of participants can be found at http://www.film.queensu.ca/dpp/). The Keynote Lecture, also open to the public, will take place on Friday August 6th at 7:00 pm in Chernoff Hall rm.117, Susan Buck-Morss, Director of Visual Studies at Cornell University and acclaimed author of several books including Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989) and, most recently, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003). Her lecture is entitled "Visual Studies and the Global Imagination." Reception to follow in the Courtyard of Leggett Hall (the new residence on Stuart Street).

On Saturday August 7th, starting at 12:30 pm, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre will host an afternoon of sound and image works by institute participants Max Haiven, Matt Rogalsky and Jacky Sawatzky. Sawatzky's RGB-project involves an interactive, digital mapping of the city of Kingston; Rogalsky, an adjunct instructor in the Queen's School of Music, presents Ellipsis, a filtering of live broadcast noise and amplification of silences; Haiven's Front is a digital audio and visual performance.

The summer institute is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Canada Council for the Arts. Cosponsors are The Departments of Film and Music at Queen's, The Office of the Vice-Principal, Academic at Queen's, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre.

Organizers: Jean Bruce, Susan Lord, Dorit Naaman.

Organizing Committee
Digital Poetics and Politics
Department of Film and Media
Queen's University
160 Stuart St.
Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

For more information please email naamand@post.queensu.ca

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