[via Dominic Pettman <[log in to unmask]>]

INTEGRATED DIGITAL MEDIA INSTITUTE

• Have new digital communication technologies made civil society
obsolete, or enabled its next generation?

• Is it becoming possible to think and communicate rationally through
audio-visual media?

• Where's the party?


Hyperpolis: Age of Reason 2.0

Conference and Celebration

Thursday, 5/5/05, starting 1pm.

Location: Polytechnic University's Brooklyn campus, 2 interdisciplinary
panel sessions in the Dibner auditiorium, followed by a D-VJ party in
the Polytechnic Hall of Fame.

Registration: $20, $10 for students & adjuncts (complimentary sandwich
buffet after the panels)


Panel 1: To address recent changes in the practical conditions of media
production and distribution, especially the convergence of broadband
internet and low-cost production and post-production equipment, and the
ways in which they alter what we do and can describe by the term "mass
media"; in particular, the emergence of a whole new class of
independent media producers, who can (at least in theory) address a
global audience without mediation by corporate, state, or religious
organizations. What are the real terms and conditions of media
"prosuming"?


Moderator: Harold Sjursen, IGEER (Institute for Global Education and
Research

Panelists: Mark Amerika, University of Colorado

Stephen Wright, Collège Supérieur de Philosophie, Paris

Bharat Rao, Polytechnic University Department of Management

Beth Coleman, MIT SoundLab Cultural Alchemy Project



Panel 2: To consider a specific cultural potential of the new networks
and production capacities, namely the possibility of a "global Polis",
whose lingua franca is a highly developed synthesis of audio, video,
and text. Can there be such a thing as rational audio-visual discourse?
What are its logics? What are its limits?



Moderator: Dominic Pettman, Polytechnic University Brooklyn

Panelists: Ken Wark, New School University

Wendy Chun, Brown University

  Luke Murphy, MTV Networks

Carl Skelton, Integrated Digital Media Institute

Thomas McEvilley, School of Visual Arts



Participants in the two panels will be invited to re-convene for a
round-table discussion, followed by a VJ celebration in the Polytechnic
Hall of Fame in Wunsch Hall. Live mixing of video, audio, and elements
of the proceedings will be "performed" on the Hall of Fame's nine
screens and five speakers, showcasing Brooklyn

Polytechnic's new facilities and its leadership in both concepts and
production in digital multimedia.



The after-party A-and-V-mix will be supplied by Nvidius and Anton
Marini, in the Polytechnic Hall of Fame's new 9-screen multimedia
space...



Hope to see you there.



Co-sponsored and organized by:

The Integrated Digital Media Institute and the Othmer Institute for
Interdisciplinary Studies at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn.



official conference site:

http://humanscience.poly.edu/hyperpolis/



to register online:

http://humanscience.poly.edu/hyperpolis/register