The panel discussion will focus on artists' vision of the advancement of technology, and the contributions of artists in shaping policies surrounding communications technologies. It will also consider the impact of emerging media and Internet on self, community, and culture.
24 Hour Mix
Friday, March 2, 2001
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Artist's Message Shaping Public Policy: A Dialogue
"Art must get out of the Ivory Tower and into the Control Tower."
-Marshall McLuhan
PANELISTS:
Drew Clark, Journalist, National Journal's Technology Daily
[nationaljournal.com/technologydaily/]
Timothy Druckrey, Media Theorist and Historian, Maryland Institute
College of Art [www.mica.edu]
Don Druker, Program Officer, Technology Opportunities Program at the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of
the United States Department of Commerce
[www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html]
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Writer, Artist and Musician, former Editor
at Large for ArtByte. Founder of future journal 21C
[www.djspooky.com]
Christoph Pingel, Multimedia Designer, ZKM/Center for Art and Media,
Karlsruhe, Germany [www.on1.zkm.de]
Randall Packer (Moderator), Media Artist, Maryland Institute College
of Art, Zakros InterArts [www.zakros.com]
The panel discussion will focus on artists' vision of the advancement of
technology, and the contributions of artists in shaping policies
surrounding communications technologies.
It will also consider the
impact of emerging media and Internet on self, community, and
culture. Topics raised by the panel will reveal how artistic investigations
in media art and architecture deepen our understanding of new
technologies and their social impact, informing public policy around
these issues - a critical discussion as the new US Administration and
Congress grapple with technology and cultural policy.
The panel
includes leading professionals and cultural producers who explore the
creative potential of the Net as well as those who are concerned with
shaping policy around it.
The panel will concentrate on the Internet as a new medium suggesting
radical new aesthetic forms offering a type of anarchical domain of
activity with various artists attempting to forge a new language. In
approaching the future of the Net, the panel and individual
presentations will offer a historical understanding of how artists have
worked with these mechanisms, how they have affected the social
condition, and how the past can illuminate our understanding of the
present and future.
Saturday, March 3, 2001
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Individual Presentations
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Timothy Druckrey On Net_Condition
Druckrey presents Net_Condition, an exhibition recently curated by
Peter Weibel, Chairman at ZKMCenter for Art and Media in Germany.
The exhibition explores what Weibel describes as "the artist's look at
the way society and technology interact with each other, and are, in
many ways, each other's condition." The curator further adds that "net
art is the driving force, which is most radical in transforming the closed
system of the aesthetic object of modern fields of action."
11:00 am - Noon
Erkki Huhtamo, Visiting Professor of Media Art, UCLA
Art and Technology - the Panacea that Might yet Succeed, After All?
The collaboration that purported to unite art, technology and science
extends beyond the1960s. In many cases, many projects had
produced disappointing results.
In the 1970s, this general
disillusionment led the critic Jack Burnham, an enthusiastic supporter
of the art and technology movement in the 60s, to speak about "a
panacea that failed."
Huhtamo's presentation looks at interconnected
notions of art, technology, science and collaboration from a historical
point of view. By analyzing "classic" projects in the field, he focuses in
on whether these perceived failures were adequately evaluated, and
whether media artists and art institutions have anything to learn from
the failures and successes of their predecessors.
Noon - 1:00 pm
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
Freefall: The Artistic Process and Sound Art
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Timothy Druckrey
Stop Playing Games
A presentation that proposes a plan for artistic autonomy against what
Druckrey views as "an increasingly coercive impact by
institutionalization, commercialization, and globalization on media art."
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Saturday Evening, March 3rd @ 11:00 pm
DJ Spooky @ The Black Cat
1831 14th St, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Entrance: $10.00
Advance tickets available by phone: 202/667-7960 or at
TICKETMASTER
DJ Spooky's performance at the Black Cat evolves out of the sounds
generated for "Federal Entertainment Era," a work commissioned for
Heads & Hands, a WPAC exhibition presently at the historic Decatur
House, located across from the White House. DJ Spooky recycles
sounds from dance, ambient, and "sonic art" and condenses them into
a mix relevant for dance culture and as a conceptual work. The artist
enters into both the club and museum context in addressing the status
and preservation of culture in the information age.
Although DJ Spooky
integrates mechanisms employed by conceptual artists such as
Joseph Beuys in his Social Skulptur or Allan Kaprow in his
Happenings, the underlying humor implied throughout the artist's
presentation allows his work to function both in a club environment and
in the proscenium space of the gallery/museum.
Beyond Art and Technology has been supported by WPAC and
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, and in cooperation with the Embassy of
Finland.
Visit the following websites for more info: www.wpaconline.org or
www.goethe.de/washington or contact WPAC at 202.639.1828 or
wpainfo@corcoran.org.
Armand Hammer Auditorium
(New York Avenue Entrance)
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
RSVP: wpainfo@corcoran.org or 202.639.1828
All events are free and open to the public. RSVP requested where
noted