[Announcements] Thundergulch Dialogues: Race in Digital Space this Thursday at Sony Wonder Technology Lab

[Erin Donnelly]

Please come early to get in, seating is limited and only available on a first-come first served basis.

Thundergulch Dialogues: Race in Digital Space

Thursday, June 20th, 6:00-8:00 PM and Reception 8:00-8:30 PM, 2002 
Admission is FREE 
56th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues 

Seating is available on a first-come first served basis.  All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Directions: Sony Wonder Technology Lab is located on 56th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues.  Take the 4/5/6 trains to 59th/Lexington Avenue, the E/V trains to Fifth Avenue/53rd Street, or the N/R trains to Fifth Avenue/60th Street. Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and M57.

THUNDERGULCH, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, is pleased to present conversations with artists from the Studio Museum in Harlem's acclaimed exhibit "Race in Digital Space."  Organized by guest curator, Erika Dalya Muhammad, "Race in Digital Space" featured the work of over 50 artists using film, video, audio, and digital media to explore how technology influences and changes social ideas of race and ethnicity.  

The evening features: Leah Gilliam's "Split: Whiteness, Retrofuturism, Omega Man," a CD-ROM that examines narratives of race and gender in the science fiction genre through manipulated texts and images; Tana Hargest's "Bitter Nigger, Inc.," a humorous, albeit biting web work/installation exploring racism through the mediation of the pharmaceutical, entertainment, and consumer cultures; and Pamela Jennings's CD-ROM "Solitaire: dream journal," a three-dimensional computer game used to navigate through graphically luscious and sonically rich dream journals.

For more information about Race in Digital Space, visit http://cms.mit.edu/race/artist.html

Featuring: 

LEAH GILLIAM, Assistant Professor of Film & Electronic Arts, Division of the Arts, Bard College

TANA HARGEST, Curator of New Media Initiatives, The Bronx Museum of the Arts

PAMELA JENNINGS, Assistant Professor, School of Art and the Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University 

ERIKA DALYA MUHAMMAD, Writer and curator

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LEAH GILLIAM is Assistant Professor of Film & Electronic Arts, Division of the Arts, Bard College.  Her media projects have been exhibited widely in such venues as Thread Waxing Space; the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco International Film Festival.
gilliam at bard.edu

TANA HARGEST is a multimedia artist and Curator of New Media Initiatives at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center as part of the screening and exhibition Women in the Director's Chair, at The Studio Museum in Harlem as part of the traveling exhibition Freestyle, and at GAle GAtes et al. as part of the group show Mimic. 
THargest at bxma.org

PAMELA JENNINGS is Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a joint appointment in the School of Art in the College of Fine Arts and Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science. Jennings is the author New Media Arts | New Funding Models, a report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and papers and reviews of her work have appeared in numerous books and journals.  She has received New York State Council on the Arts grants and is a MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow and CAiiA-STAR research consortium member.
http://digital-bauhaus.com/
pamela at cs.cmu.edu

ERIKA DALYA MUHAMMAD is a curator and writer. Muhammad explores how digital encounters and cut-and-mix culture work to transform issues of race, ethnicity, and nationhood. In addition to curating the "Race in Digital Space" exhibition (with travels to the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts this Fall), Muhammad has held curatorial positions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Museum of the Moving Image.
erika at escape.com

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Reservations are not required but for further information please contact Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch at (212)219-9401 x106, washley007 at yahoo.com, or Erin Donnelly, Visual and Media Arts Program Associate, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at (212)219-9401 x107 or edonnelly at lmcc.net

Support for Thundergulch audience development is provided by American Express Company.  Funding for Thundergulch is generously provided by Cowles Charitable Trust, Experimental Television Center, the Greenwall Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation.  This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program and the Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund of the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.  This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

http://www.lmcc.net
http://www.thundergulch.org
http://www.sonywondertechlab.com/

Thundergulch, the new media initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
145 Hudson Street, Suite 801, New York, NY 10013
212-219-9401
212-219-2058 fax
info at lmcc.net

Liz Thompson, Executive Director
Moukhtar Kocache, Director of Visual & Media Arts
Erin Donnelly, Visual & Media Arts Program Associate
Wayne Ashley, Guest Curator, Thundergulch