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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 12:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From: "Eric S. Theise"
CREATING DEMOCRACY: Technology, Pedagogy, and the Arts
A symposium sponsored by the Inter-Arts Center of the School of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University
Thursday, April 7, 1994; 3:00-8:45 PM. Free Admission Little Theater, Creative Arts Bldg, SFSU 415/338.1478
DESCRIPTION How are knowledge and creativity transformed by technology? Who has access to new and existing tools of communication and artistic expression? This program of panel discussions and screenings will address recent developments in such areas as electronic imaging, digital media, virtual reality, and the Internet. At the same time, it will consider alternative applications of such everyday conveniences as the telephone and radio. The symposium will focus on the implications of these technologies for educational and community groups.
THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION (3:00-4:45 pm.) How do emergent technologies shape and respond to social relations? How are cultural producers responding to the challenges posed by the digital revolution?
RICHARD BOLTON. Artist and writer who teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the editor of *The Contest of Meaning (MIT Press, 1991) and Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts* (The New Press, 1993). His installation The Revolution Will Be Televised is on view at Eye Gallery through April 16, 1994.
SALLY JO FIFER. Executive director of the San Francisco-based Bay Area Video Coalition, former editor of the media journal Video Networks, and co-editor of the anthology *Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art* (Aperture, 1992).
ROBERT RILEY. Curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A widely published author on issues of aesthetic theory and media communications, Riley was previously curator of video and performance art at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston.
ERIC THEISE (moderator). Hosts the Internet, Matrix, and News conferences on The WELL, an internationally accessed computer conferencing system. A co-founder of Bay Area Internet Literacy, he is the organizer of the "Jacked In" series at Modern Times Bookstore, editor of the "Internet Domain" of the forthcoming Millennium Whole Earth Catalogue, and a contributor to Wired Magazine.
KATHLEEN TYNER. Nationally recognized curriculum consultant and executive director of the organization Strategies for Media Literacy. Tyner has written numerous essays on educational technology and is the co-author of Media and You: An Elementary Media Literacy Curriculum (Educational Technology Publications, 1991).
VIDEO SCREENINGS (5:00-6:45 pm.) Staking a Claim in Cyberspace (1993) Paper Tiger Television. Looking beyond the information superhighway, this work analyses the role of corporations in the development of the nation's evolving communications EcoNet.
State of Emergency: Inside the LAPD (1993) by Julia Meltzer and Liz Canning, in collaboration with Michael Zinsun. Using portable small-format video cameras, citizens monitor and analyze the practices of one of the nation's most notorious law enforcement bodies.
Low Power Empowerment (1993). Paper Tiger Television. Shot on location in Ireland and the United States, this tape explores the potentials of low-power radio to promote community dialogue and understanding.
COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND DEMOCRACY (7:00-8:45 pm.) Technology offers both tremendous possibilities and potential problems for a democratic society. Panelists will discuss creative uses for existing and emerging means of public communication.
LAWRENCE ANDREWS. Artist, Filmmaker, and faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His most recent film is *And They Came Riding into Town on Black and Silver Horses* (1993). Andrews is currently an artist-in-residence at Capp Street Project, where he is preparing an installation on pirate radio.
JESSE DREW (moderator). Media activist and member of Paper Tiger Television. He teaches at the California College of Arts and Crafts, The New College of California, and in the Inter-Arts Program at San Francisco State University. Paper Tiger's most recent production is Staking A Claim in Cyberspace (1993).
LINDA JACOBSON. Member of the D'Cuckoo techno-tribe, editor of Cyberarts: Exploring Arts and Technology (Miller Freeman, 1993), and author of *Garage Virtual Reality: The Affordable Way to Explore Virtual Worlds* (Prentice-Hall/Sams, 1994) discussing low cost ways for artists and individuals to utilize new technology.
JOSEPH MARSHALL and MARGARET NORRIS. Educators and co-hosts of the nationally acclaimed KMEL radio program Street Soldiers, which addresses issues of gang violence. Street Soldiers has recently been the topic of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC news, the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, MTV News, and many magazine and newspaper articles.
GEOFFREY SEARS. Director of the non-profit Institute for Global Communication, which operates PeaceNet and EcoNet on-line computer communications networks. The Institute for Global Communications is devoted to creating international exchanges of information for social change.
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