V2_: Wiretap 7.13, Urban Collisions: New York

[marjolein at v2.nl]

Wiretap 7.13: Urban Collisions: New York
Presentation/lecture
Date: Sunday 27th January 2002, 16.00 hours
Admission: 4,50 euro
Location: Goethe-Institut, Westersingel 9, Rotterdam

The image of a jumbo jet crashing into the WTC on September 11th is carved 
in our cultural memory. Nevertheless, we have been familiarized with 
similar images through blockbuster disaster movies in which national 
monuments such as the WTC, the White House, the Statue of Liberty and the 
Pentagon feature as terrorist targets. ‘Wiretap 7.13: Urban Collisions: New 
York’ analyses the visual representation of the attacks of September 11th 
in New York from a cinematic, architectonic and cultural-symbolic point of 
view.

Jutta Zaremba (D)
Media theorist, researcher at the Department of New Media, Goethe 
University Frankfurt
‘MEDIA-SCRAPING: The Media-Arts´ Presentation of New York Skyscrapers’
How are skyscrapers presented in media-art? Which cultural and urban myths 
do they perpetuate or debunk?

Birgit Richard (D)
Professor of the Department of New Media, Goethe University of Frankfurt
‘9.11. and the Culture of Shifting’
What happens when sets of fictitious images which were accepted for decades 
(think of movies like ‘Independence Day’) are replaced by ‘real’ images? 
What is the effect on our view on images?

More info: www.v2.nl/wiretap

Concept en production: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL 
Rotterdam and Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Westersingel 9, 3014 GM Rotterdam

The Wiretap 7 series is supported by Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterdam, 
Ministry of OC&W, Luna Internet, Thuiskopie Fonds, Rotterdamse 
Kunststichting, Martin Behaim Haus Foundation.