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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/=7Eisea97
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 a dozen 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, kicks off 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 of electronic 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 =22Nightline,=22 =22The Today
Show=22 and =2220/20.=22
Nolan A. Bowie, an advocatefor under-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-Pe=F1a
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-Pe=F1a founded and participated in the =22Border Arts Workshop,=22 and
contributed to the National Public Radio program =22Crossroads.=22 An =
editor
of =22High Performance=22 and =22Drama Review,=22 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
onference 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/=7Eisea97, 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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