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From: Jay Jaroslav <jaroslav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: SYMPOSIUM: An Arts and Humanities Agenda for the National Information
Infrastructure (Boston, 1994).
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Dear Colleague:
Little more than one hundred years ago Thomas Edison put his
first dynamos on line in New York City. The technology was primitive
by current standards. Nevertheless, the Age of Electricity had
begun. Telephone, phonograph, radio, film, television and computers
are emblematic of the twentieth century and have effected changes
in culture and consciousness of historic proportions.
While the debate as to the effects of electronic media
continues, we find ourselves approaching another threshold.
Digitalization and light-speed communications are among the
technologies that put us in a position relative to the twenty-first
century comparable to that which Edison and his peers occupy in
relation to ours.
What is on the other side of this threshold, and what
impact will current administration policy have on our cultural lives
and those of our children and grand-children?
In order to address these issues, the Center for Art
Research in Boston, Massachusetts is organizing a three-day
symposium on the role of the arts and humanities in the development
of policy for the National Information Infrastructure. The
symposium, entitled TOWARDS A 21ST CENTURY CULTURAL ALLIANCE, An
Arts and Humanities Agenda for the National Information
Infrastructure, will be held at the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14-16, 1994. The
symposium will bring together government officials, artists,
writers, telecommunications policy experts, computer and social
scientists, representatives of arts and cultural organizations and
other concerned individuals, to discuss and debate many of the
issues which will effect the cultural lives of all Americans during
the coming decades.
The symposium is being structured to achieve several
objectives. One primary objective is to assemble key representatives
of core constituencies who would not ordinarily have a chance to
meet. Presentation sessions, roundtable and panel-discussions and
frequent informal meetings will provide opportunities for
participants to exchange ideas and information. Professional
facilitators will assist working groups to formulate long-term and
short-term objectives and to propose counter-challenges to
administration and legislative agendas. A final session will be
devoted to the conclusions of participants and to specific plans of
action which may be implemented in the months and years to come.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
This is a call for presentation, panel and performance
proposals, approximately twenty of which will be selected by the
Program Committee for development and presentation at the symposium.
The Program Committee has chosen not to suggest any specific topics,
but special consideration will be given to those efforts that take a
critical perspective of the issues.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals should be presented in abstracts of approximately
300-500 words. Illustrations, drawings, photographs or other graphic
material may be submitted at this time. Persons or organizations
proposing a panel or roundtable discussion should contact potential
panelists or participants prior to submitting their proposals. All
proposals are due in hard copy at the address below by April 15,
1994. Selected presenters will be notified by May 15. Presentations,
demonstrations or performances will be alloted half an hour. Panels
should not exceed one hour. Videotapes, recordings, etc. will be
considered as part of panels or as a component of presentations or
performances. Submitted videotape, optical disk, film, and other
media will be returned. Brief biographical information should
accompany submissions on a separate page. Submission of an abstract
or proposal indicates your intention, obligation and capability to
write, present, or demonstrate the corresponding full-length work if
selected.
LOCATION AND FACILITIES
The symposium will be held at the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts on a secluded
five-acre wooded estate. The House of the Academy offers superior
conference facilities, including a 225-seat lecture hall; reception
atrium and hearth; three separate dining rooms; a 28-seat board room,
40-seat council room and a library.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded during
the American Revolution by individuals who contributed prominently
to the philosophical foundations of the new nation and to the
establishment of its government and institutions. Maintaining its
initial concern with the development of knowledge as a means of
promoting the public interest and social progress, the Academy has
both grown and evolved since its founding. Today it is a learned
society with a dual function - to honor achievement in science,
scholarship, the arts and public affairs; and to conduct a varied
program of projects and studies reflecting the interests of its
members and responsive to the needs and problems of society.
MEALS AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Meals will be provided by the Academy and are included in
the registration fee. Hotel reservations have been made for
symposium participants, but reservations must be confirmed by August
10. A list of hotels with reserved rooms will be provided with
registration information forms which will be available after April
15. Early registration is suggested as space is limited. Hotel
accommodations are not included in the price of registration.
DEADLINES
The deadline for submission of proposals is April 15, 1994. The
deadline for symposium registration and hotel reservations is August
10, 1994.
All materials should be sent to:
Program Committee,
CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH
241 A Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02210-1302
--------------------------------------------------------------
Jay Jaroslav, Director jaroslav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH
241 A Street Boston, MA voice: (617) 451-8030
02210-1302 USA fax: (617) 451-1196
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 21:08:39 LCL
From: Jay Jaroslav <jaroslav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: SYMPOSIUM: An Arts and Humanities Agenda for the National Information
Infrastructure (Boston, 1994).
Sender: Art Criticism Discussion Forum <[email protected]>
To: Howard Lawrence <HRL@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-to: Jay Jaroslav <jaroslav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-id: <01H9EAHRG2LG8ZDUX7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear Colleague:
Little more than one hundred years ago Thomas Edison put his
first dynamos on line in New York City. The technology was primitive
by current standards. Nevertheless, the Age of Electricity had
begun. Telephone, phonograph, radio, film, television and computers
are emblematic of the twentieth century and have effected changes
in culture and consciousness of historic proportions.
While the debate as to the effects of electronic media
continues, we find ourselves approaching another threshold.
Digitalization and light-speed communications are among the
technologies that put us in a position relative to the twenty-first
century comparable to that which Edison and his peers occupy in
relation to ours.
What is on the other side of this threshold, and what
impact will current administration policy have on our cultural lives
and those of our children and grand-children?
In order to address these issues, the Center for Art
Research in Boston, Massachusetts is organizing a three-day
symposium on the role of the arts and humanities in the development
of policy for the National Information Infrastructure. The
symposium, entitled TOWARDS A 21ST CENTURY CULTURAL ALLIANCE, An
Arts and Humanities Agenda for the National Information
Infrastructure, will be held at the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14-16, 1994. The
symposium will bring together government officials, artists,
writers, telecommunications policy experts, computer and social
scientists, representatives of arts and cultural organizations and
other concerned individuals, to discuss and debate many of the
issues which will effect the cultural lives of all Americans during
the coming decades.
The symposium is being structured to achieve several
objectives. One primary objective is to assemble key representatives
of core constituencies who would not ordinarily have a chance to
meet. Presentation sessions, roundtable and panel-discussions and
frequent informal meetings will provide opportunities for
participants to exchange ideas and information. Professional
facilitators will assist working groups to formulate long-term and
short-term objectives and to propose counter-challenges to
administration and legislative agendas. A final session will be
devoted to the conclusions of participants and to specific plans of
action which may be implemented in the months and years to come.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
This is a call for presentation, panel and performance
proposals, approximately twenty of which will be selected by the
Program Committee for development and presentation at the symposium.
The Program Committee has chosen not to suggest any specific topics,
but special consideration will be given to those efforts that take a
critical perspective of the issues.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals should be presented in abstracts of approximately
300-500 words. Illustrations, drawings, photographs or other graphic
material may be submitted at this time. Persons or organizations
proposing a panel or roundtable discussion should contact potential
panelists or participants prior to submitting their proposals. All
proposals are due in hard copy at the address below by April 15,
1994. Selected presenters will be notified by May 15. Presentations,
demonstrations or performances will be alloted half an hour. Panels
should not exceed one hour. Videotapes, recordings, etc. will be
considered as part of panels or as a component of presentations or
performances. Submitted videotape, optical disk, film, and other
media will be returned. Brief biographical information should
accompany submissions on a separate page. Submission of an abstract
or proposal indicates your intention, obligation and capability to
write, present, or demonstrate the corresponding full-length work if
selected.
LOCATION AND FACILITIES
The symposium will be held at the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts on a secluded
five-acre wooded estate. The House of the Academy offers superior
conference facilities, including a 225-seat lecture hall; reception
atrium and hearth; three separate dining rooms; a 28-seat board room,
40-seat council room and a library.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded during
the American Revolution by individuals who contributed prominently
to the philosophical foundations of the new nation and to the
establishment of its government and institutions. Maintaining its
initial concern with the development of knowledge as a means of
promoting the public interest and social progress, the Academy has
both grown and evolved since its founding. Today it is a learned
society with a dual function - to honor achievement in science,
scholarship, the arts and public affairs; and to conduct a varied
program of projects and studies reflecting the interests of its
members and responsive to the needs and problems of society.
MEALS AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Meals will be provided by the Academy and are included in
the registration fee. Hotel reservations have been made for
symposium participants, but reservations must be confirmed by August
10. A list of hotels with reserved rooms will be provided with
registration information forms which will be available after April
15. Early registration is suggested as space is limited. Hotel
accommodations are not included in the price of registration.
DEADLINES
The deadline for submission of proposals is April 15, 1994. The
deadline for symposium registration and hotel reservations is August
10, 1994.
All materials should be sent to:
Program Committee,
CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH
241 A Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02210-1302
--------------------------------------------------------------
Jay Jaroslav, Director jaroslav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH
241 A Street Boston, MA voice: (617) 451-8030
02210-1302 USA fax: (617) 451-1196
--------------------------------------------------------------