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ninch-announce: Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art

Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:41:28 -0400 

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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:41:28 -0400
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From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art


NINCH ANNOUNCE
September 5, 1997


INTERNATIONAL LEADERS IN THE ELECTRONIC ARTS TO SPEAK IN CHICAGO AT ISEA97:
         A WEEK-LONG SYMPOSIUM AND FESTIVAL OF THE ELECTRONIC ARTS


Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
September 22-27, 1997
web page: <http://www.artic.edu/~isea97>


CHICAGO -  More than 1,000 artists, critics, educators, scientists, and
policy planners from around the world will gather in Chicago beginning
September 22 and continuing through September 27 for ISEA97, a week-long
celebration of the electronic arts hosted by the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago.  Subjects being discussed include ethical issues
involving the use of electronic media, freedom of speech on the Internet,
the architecture of cyberspace, as well as a broad range of topics related
to new electronic media.

In conjunction with the conference, ISEA97 is presenting a city-wide
festival of electronic arts with more than 200 artists from 20 countries
represented in exhibitions and events at over adozen sites throughout
Chicago.  The official ISEA exhibition site is located at the School of the
Art Institute White Tower Building at 847 W. Jackson Blvd.  In addition,
the School of the Art Institute Betty Rymer Gallery and Gallery 2 are
presenting exhibitions to coincide with the symposium.  Other venues
include the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Cultural Center and the
Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Many presentations are open to the public and free-of-charge.  Local
galleries and alternative exhibition spaces are also hosting collaborative
programs, exhibitions and events.

Internationally-acclaimed author, performer and recording artist LAURIE
ANDERSON, kicksoff ISEA97 with an opening presentation, Tuesday, September
23, at  6 p.m. in the Art Institute of Chicago's Rubloff Auditorium.
Serving as Honorary Chair for ISEA97, Laurie Anderson is known for her
audacious, often humorous performance art and intriguing applications o
felectronic and computer technology.

SHERRY TURKLE, author of Life on the Screen: Identity In The Age of The
Internet, opens the morning session of the conference in the Rubloff
Auditorium on Wednesday, September 24, at 10 am with a presentation
examining the expanding electronic world.  Turkle, a licensed clinical
psychologist,  explores the anxieties and opportunities that arise as a
result of the staggering changes technology brings.  She has written three
books, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
Foundations, and has appeared on such shows as "Nightline," "The Today
Show" and "20/20."

NOLAN A. BOWIE, an advocate fo runder-represented populations, will speak
in the Rubloff on Thursday, September 25, at 9 a.m.  In his work as a
communications attorney, an associate professor at Temple University and a
public policy planner, Bowie is concerned with issues of equity and access
to information.  For his extensive work in framing communications policy,
Bowie has received the Community Award from Black Citizens for Fair Media
and the Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation.  He has also served as Assistant Special Prosecutor with the
Watergate Special Prosecution Force.

Mexican-born performance artist and writer GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA speaks in
the Rubloff Auditorium on Friday, September 26, at 9 a.m.  Through his work
in electronic arts, Gomez-Pena investigates cultural and cross-cultural
issues with countries who share borders.  He has explored the
US/Latino/Chicano relationship through his use of journalism, performance,
radio, video, poetry and installations.  From 1984-1990 Gomez-Pena founded
and participated in the "Border Arts Workshop," and contributed to the
National Public Radio program "Crossroads."  An editor of "High
Performance" and "Drama Review," his awards include a MacArthur Fellowship
and the Prix de la Parole at the International Theatre Festival of the
Americas.

ISEA97 offers educational opportunities to complement regular conference
proceedings.  Two full days of workshops on Monday and Tuesday, September
22 and 23, address hands-on technological issues, novel approaches to
teaching in this field and other topics related to electronic art, a term
which refers to all art using electronic technology as an essential
prerequisite for production.

Events on Wednesday through Saturday, September 24 to 27, consist of
plenary sessions by the three keynote speakers, paper and panel
presentations, and numerous small group moderated discussions.  The final
day of the conference remains open for participants to attend the extensive
array of exhibitions and events accompanying the symposium.

ISEA97 also presents career advancement opportunities in both academia and
business through a job exchange, posted on the ISEA97 website at
<http://www.artic.edu/~isea97>, at the conference, and through special
workshop offerings.

ISEA97 is being hosted by the School of the Art Institute in conjunction
with the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, an organization which
initiated this series of symposia in 1988 to support an international
network of groups and individuals in the field of electronic art.  Past
ISEA conferences have been presented in Rotterdam, Montreal, Helsinki,
Minneapolis, Sydney,  Groningen and Utrecht, Holland.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago gratefully acknowledges the
following sponsors for their generous support of ISEA97:  MacLean-Fogg
Company, Molex Incorporated, Neoglyphics Media Corporation, the
Goethe-Institut Chicago and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in
the Fine Arts.

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