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Re: [dvd-discuss] Wendy Seltzer on Panel at the Guggenheim Tonight



At 11:54 AM 3/21/02 -0500, Ernest Miller wrote:
>http://www.guggenheim.org/programs/tours_lectures.html

A longer description follows, if anyone is in the NYC area.  If not, we'll 
have a streaming video archive afterwards.

--Wendy

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Who Controls New Media? Open Art in Closed Systems
Thursday March 21, 7-9 pm
A panel discussion co-organized by the Guggenheim Museum and
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes New York.

DESCRIPTION
In the 1960s artists and technologists independently laid the groundwork
for two parallel forms of democratic expression: the "open artwork"
characterized by viewer participation, and a global Internet where ideas
and images could be freely circulated. Four decades later, the expansion of
copyright has raised questions of public use, interactivity has become a
marketing buzzword, and national security and freedom of expression appear
unreconcilable.

"Who Controls New Media" will examine the historical roots of this shift,
from Bertold Brecht's emancipatory theory of radio in the 1920s to Nam June
Paik's Participation TV in the 1960s to the rise of Internet art in the
1990s. Following this analysis the participants will present a number of
contemporary attempts to reassert open protocols in what many artists see
as an increasingly closed society. The discussion will be punctuated by
audiovisual documentation of artwork from such historical figures as John
Cage as well as cutting-edge artworks from today's Internet.

PARTICIPANTS
Dieter Daniels is a professor of art history and media theory at Leipzig's
Academy of Visual Arts who has written extensively on such topics as Marcel
Duchamp, Fluxus, and new media. He conceived and organized Leipzig's media
biennale Minima Media, co-founded the Videonale in Bonn, and headed the
mediatheque at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe from 1991-93.
Daniels is the editor with Rudolf Frieling of two books and CD-ROMs
produced by ZKM and the Goethe-Institut, Media Art Action and Media Art
Interaction.

Alex Galloway is an artist, computer programmer, and Director of Content
and Technology at Rhizome.org, a leading online platform for new media art.
He is the producer of Carnivore, a networked art project. Based on the FBI
software of the same name, Carnivore uses packet-sniffing technologies to
create vivid depictions of raw data; the work is currently on tour to the
Princeton Art Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Galloway's
first book, PROTOCOL, or, How Control Exists after Decentralization, will
appear next year from The MIT Press.

Wendy Seltzer is a lawyer, computer programmer, and a Fellow with Harvard
Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In collaboration with
Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig and others, Seltzer is launching
three online projects to preserve and strengthen the public domain:
Openlaw, an approach to legal argument modeled on the "open source"
programming method; Creative Commons, an effort to provide artists and
authors with alternatives to traditionally restrictive copyright licenses;
and Chilling Effects, a project to identify and respond to ungrounded legal
threats that have a "chilling effect" on online activity.

Moderator Jon Ippolito is an artist and Associate Curator of Media Arts at
the Guggenheim, where he curated the first major museum exhibition of
virtual reality, the award-winning CyberAtlas project, and, with John G.
Hanhardt, The Worlds of Nam June Paik. His publications include a
forthcoming book entitled The Edge of Art.

DIRECTIONS
                 Presentation 7-9 pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater
1071 Fifth Avenue at 88th Street
Please enter via the sidewalk ramp at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue.

Reception 9-10 pm
Goethe-Institut, 1014 Fifth Avenue at 83rd Street


--
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.com
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
Chilling Effects: http://www.chillingeffects.org/