[Nettime-bold] Creative Networks in the Media Storm

[Wayne Ashley <washley007@yahoo.com>]

CREATIVE NETWORKS IN THE MEDIA STORM 
Four New York Perspectives 
Featuring: 

WAYNE ASHLEY, The Brooklyn Academy of Music's first
Manager of New Media 

ELISE BERNHARDT, Director of The Kitchen 
ROBERT ELMES, Founder & Director of Galapagos Art
Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
 
EBON FISHER, Media Breeder and Assoc. Professor,
Hunter College, Film & Media Studies 

Thursday, March 14th, 6:30 PM, 2002 --- FREE 
Ida K. Lang Hall, Rm. 424, N. Building, Hunter College

68th St. at Lexington Ave., New York --- 6 Train to
68th St. 
(212) 650-3606   

http://filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu 

As if we didn't know that the routinization of
internet culture has begun to choke the tender
weirdness out of the medium, we could proceed with
business as usual, round up a few pundits, and check
off another bleary panel discussion on chat rooms. In
this age of cabaret laws, consolidation of media
corporations, and Ashcroft-induced paranoia, something
more meaningful needs to be unleashed.
 
So let it be said with smoking nostrils and sharp
marmalade: four hard-working culture monkeys shall
speak openly, and in the flesh, about their efforts to
generate vital cultural networks in this era of spam,
information-overload, and what one furious woman on
the 7 Train recently dubbed "creeping repression." We
welcome all input, challenges and insights from the
audience and hope that a more sagacious perspective
may emerge from the dialogue. Refreshments will be
served to cool the brow. The event will be moderated
by Ebon Fisher. 
_______________ 
S P E A K E R S:
 
WAYNE ASHLEY was named Brooklyn Academy of Music's
first Manager of New Media in July, 1999. He was hired
to establish the New Media Department and to develop
new relationships between performance and interactive
information technologies. He has also developed new
media projects for the Seattle Art Museum and is
currently a guest curator at Thundergulch, the New
Media Initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council.
 
ELISE BERNHARDT is director of The Kitchen, a
multi-disciplinary presenting organization which has
occupied a catalytic position in three creative
neighborhoods: Greenwich Village, SoHo and Chelsea.
The Kitchen has helped to launch the careers of many
artists who define the US avant-garde. Bernhardt also
founded Dancing in the Streets (DITS), an organization
which promotes site-specific, public performances.
 
ROBERT ELMES is the founder and director of Galapagos
Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An experimental
theatre director and co-developer of
generation-defining warehouse events in Williamsburg
in the early 90's, Elmes has built Galapagos into a
thriving center for experimental performance and media
from around the world.
 
EBON FISHER's media rituals in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
in the early 90s evolved into an information-age
ethics system, the Bionic Codes, which are now
evolving into Zoacaodes for a virtual world called
OlulO. He recently spent 3 years directing the Digital
Worlds program at the University of Iowa and is
currently an Associate Professor at Hunter's Dept. of
Film & Media Studies, where he is helping to develop a
new MFA program in Integrated Media Arts. 
_______________________________________________________
FILM & MEDIA PROFILES is sponsored by Hunter College's
Dept. of Film & Media Studies. 
For more information call (212) 650-3606 or (718)
391-9216 or email:  ebon@olulo.net 

Wayne Ashley


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Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator/Consultant
Thundergulch
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's New Media Initiative
145 Hudson Street, Suite 801
New York, New York 10013
Tel. 212-219-9401 ext. 106

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