Digital Dialogues / SF

[Claudia Westermann]

http://www.sanfranciscoart.edu/database/this_week_at_sfai_detail.asp?id_event=524

DIGITAL DIALOGUES
An Ongoing Series of Moderated Conversations on New Media

November 7, 2001
7:30 pm


Digital Dialogues is the SFAI's ongoing series of discussions on different 
aspects of artistic production, curatorial practice and theories of new 
media. Inaugurated this past spring with a panel on "Curating Byte-Based 
Art" during the Art Institute's presentation of the exhibition Telematic 
Connections: the Virtual Embrace, this series brings artists, critics, 
curators, engineers and historians to engage in focused conversations about 
the multiple meanings and modalities of "the digital" across disciplines.

The second program of the Digital Dialogue on November 7, at 7:30 pm in the 
Art Institute Lecture Hall, will be a discussion on current new media 
practices in France and the United States, with artists, a curator, and a 
representative from the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Moderated by 
BENJAMIN WEIL, curator of new media at the San Francisco Museum of Modern 
Art, the panel will include San Francisco-based new media artist and 
designer ERIK ADIGARD, and three visitors from France:

PASCALE CASSAGNAU, from the Ministry of Culture's Division of Plastic Arts 
which commissions and supports work in visual and media arts including 
video, photography, multimedia, cinema and television;

ERIC SADIN, new media artist/editor and theorist, publisher of ecart 
digital magazine (www.ecarts.org); and

GREGORY CHATONSKY, a media/performance artist.

After a presentation by each panelist, Weil will lead the group in a 
discussion, which will be followed by a performance by Gregory Chotonsky 
and Eric Sadin, RE:ENGINEERING, an exploration and re-embodiment of what we 
once referred to as "the text."

Admission: $6 general; $4 members, alumni, seniors, students, and disabled; 
SFAI students free

This event is co-sponsored by the San Francisco Art Institute and the 
French Consualte of San Francisco.

SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA

For more information:
www.ecarts.org

Sponsored by:
SFAI

Event Contact:
P Streckfus
(415)749-4507
pstreckfus at sfai.edu