The 24th annual Women Direct Series
Reverse Engineering: Digitalities, Sensualities, Technologies
This year's Women Direct series explores the connections between feminist politics, post-colonial theories and new media in a new format featuring lectures and screenings from nationally prominent film/video/new media scholars.
The series examines how critical studies and media arts practices have migrated from a focus on the image towards an interrogation of networks and interfaces. The term "reverse engineering" denotes an analytical and mechanical process where a technology is taken apart in order to rebuild a better functioning new model.
The first presentation is on Tuesday, February 15, at 2:35 in Park Auditorium, with a lecture and presentation by Timothy Murray, "Body Politics in New Media Art."
Murray is curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and professor of comparative literature and English at Cornell, where he teaches new media, film, and visual studies . He is co-curator of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA and curates international exhibitions. He has written essays and catalogue entries for the ZKM, Macau Museum of Art in Macau, China, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and low-fi.org in London. His books include Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, Canvas (Routledge, 1997) and Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997). He is completing a book, forthcoming from Minnesota, Digitality and the Memory of Cinema: Baroque Theory and Cultural Memory.
The longest continuously running feminist film/video/new media series on the east coast, Women Direct has featured over 250 media artists and scholars since its inception. Barbara Adams (writing) and Patricia R. Zimmermann (cinema and photography, coordinator of the culture and communication program) founded the program in 1981 to bring diverse work in all genres to campus across a range of issues to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange and debate about feminist politics and media arts. For over two decades, Women Direct has operated as an interdisciplinary initiative between the Park School and the School of Humanities and Sciences.
This year's series is programmed by Adams, Zimmermann, Anna Siomopoulos (cinema and photography) and Dale Hudson (cinema and photography).
Reverse Engineering: Digitalities, Sensualities, Technologies is funded by the Department of Cinema and Photography, the Roy H. Park School of Communications, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. All Women Direct events are free and open to the public.
Contributed by Patricia R. Zimmermann
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