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Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ------------------ 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. stay up to date =40 http://www.artic.edu/=7Eisea97 =23 =23 =23