Press Release
- July 15, 2004
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."
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 Agnes Etherington
Art Centre and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre.
