CALL FOR VIDEO/NEW MEDIA WORK THAT DEALS WITH THE INTERSECTION OF RACE
AND TECHNOLOGY:

In coordination with the conference "Race and Digital Space" being held
at the MIT campus April 26-29, 2001, a concurrent video show and digital
salon will be held at the LIST Visual Center for the Arts. I am looking
for young innovators and visionary film/video/new media/website
designers whose work deals specifically with the intersection of race
and technology.

PLEASE SEND ALL INQUIRIES TO:

Erika Muhammad
erika@escape.com

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RACE AND DIGITAL SPACE CURATORIAL STATEMENT:

In the ever-changing terrain of new media productivity, issues of race
and ethnicity ferment in digital space. Artists who tackle issues of
race in their work are faced with fresh challenges and opportunities as
they build and define what will be the most powerful networks on earth.
With an emphasis on cultural hybridity, these artists explore just how
electronic culture influences the production of identity, race, and
nationhood as our conception of the historical document evolves. Curated
in this digital salon, video program and soundscape are works by artists
who are building digital habitats and laying political foundations
through the use of hi-tech documents. Beginning with the early 70s and
working our way through the hi-tech 90s into the new century, this
program will include experimental film and video, music videos, CD-ROMS,
websites and aural mixes. The intent of this program is not to create a
reactionary and centrist critique of technological colonial
victimization–quite the contrary: it is meant to offer examples of work
by artists who inhabit electronic space and engage with this new media
in creative and progressive ways. Reviewing questions proposed in
critical race, futurist and pop cultural theory, the "cut-and mix"
collage aesthetic employed in many of the pieces reveal unique
juxtapositions between various media.