Technology Expanding the Horizon: Call for work

From Marthe Grohman, OSU Art:
Technology strongly affects our existence within and our perceptions of the contemporary landscape. Artists are invited to submit work that examines technology’s relationship to physical and psychological space. Selected work will be exhibited for two weeks in conjunction with a symposium entitled Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape scheduled for March 29 & 30, 2007 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Symposium panelists include Vito Acconci, Heath Bunting, Martha Buskirk, Dmitry Bulatov, Vicki Goldberg, Ricardo Dominguez, Peter Garfield, James Gimzewski, and Erwin Wurm. Selected artist’s work will also be included in an online gallery available through the symposium website.

ELIGIBILITY: Artists in any media are welcome to submit work. New media is encouraged (i.e. digital work, video, sound) and space is available for large installations, projections, or performances. Performances will be scheduled for March 29 & 30, 2007. Emphasis will be placed on work that attempts to collapse the separation between art and environment, and does not necessarily need to be confined to the University Campus. A curatorial committee appointed by symposium administrators will select artwork

Curators: Katie Shannon, Brad Olson, Kisha Swift, Herb Vincent Peterson, Grant Fletcher, Dina Sherman, and Jon Keppel

Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience

Kim Beckmann-Moegenburg brought this suspected terrorist to UWM last month. I was unable to attend, but the work sounds fascinating-getting naked in front of the FBI with your data body.

The following description is from Mike Salmond's report of the New Media Caucus panel from Siggraph four months back:

Hasan Elahi of Rutgers University presented his on-going project ‘Tracking Transience’. Elahi was once under investigation by the FBI as a suspected terrorist, based purely on his ethnicity and travel habits. As such Elahi now voluntarily records his daily routines via the web, phone and GPS systems; effectively ‘self tracking’ himself as an information weapon against the United States government http://elahi.rutgers.edu/track/

NEW Course

Jewish and Ethnic Narratives and Identities in Media

Spring 2007 MW 9:30-10:45am
Instructor: Marc Tasman



As media becomes more widely distributed and produced by increasing numbers of 'average' citizens, new identities are constructed. Traditional Jewish and ethnic narratives and identities are challenged in this context and controversies often result. We will look at a range of media (photography, television, film, and convergent mediums) including Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Sarah Silverman, blackpeopleloveus.com, barmitzvahdisco.com, Seinfeld, Bernie Mac, Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, cartoon riots, The O.C., The Simpsons, Roman Vishniak and Edward Curtis.