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ParaSite New Media Symposium Friday, October 26th, 2007 10am - 6pm Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall UC Berkeley Followed by a reception and live music mash-up and art performance at the Berkeley Art Museum RIP.MIX.BURN. BAM.PFA exhibition, 7 - 10pm A UCB graduate student symposium on new media and
its relationship to other arts and disciplines. Is new media "parasitic"
upon the strategies of other media or something like a "para-site"
for their exploration? How does new media appropriate, absorb, diminish,
further, reinvent, or exist side-by-side with the forms that it inherits?
Keynotes by Anne Friedberg (USC) and Scott
Bukatman (Stanford). Other participants include Jeffrey Skoller
(UCB), Jennifer Bean (UW), Shannon Jackson (UCB), Peter Krapp (UCI),
Ken Goldberg (UCB) and Greg Niemeyer (UCB).
Please contact Brooke Belisle (bbelisle at berkeley dot edu) or Irene Chien (ichien at berkeley dot edu) for more information. Organized by the New Media Working Group. Sponsored by Film Studies, Consortium for the Arts, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley Center for New Media, and Berkeley Art Museum. |
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