Cornell University Library Announces:
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Under the sponsorship of The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
of the Cornell University Library, the Rose Goldsen Archive serves as a
research repository of new media art, with a current emphasis on digital
interfaces and experimentation by international, independent artists.
Named after the pioneering critic of the commercialization of mass
media, Professor Rose Goldsen of Cornell University, the Archive houses
art works produced on CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, and the internet, as well as
supporting materials, such as unpublished manuscripts and designs,
catalogues, monographs, and resource guides to new media art.
Emphasizing multimedia artworks that reflect digital extensions of
twentieth-century developments in cinema, video, installation,
photography, and sound, its holdings include the vast selection of
international works exhibited in the exhibition, Contact Zones: The Art
of CD-Rom, as well as net.art archived on the CTHEORY Multimedia site
maintained by the Cornell Library. The aim of the Goldsen Archive is to
provide researchers, faculty, and students with a better understanding
of the transformation wrought on the artistic process by digital
multimedia experimentation and development. To this end, access to the
archive will be available via computer workstations in the Kroch Library
and eventually via campus internet servers that will permit the artworks
to be accessed from Cornell libraries, classrooms, and dormitory spaces.
A novel research archive of international significance, the collection
complements holdings in The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
of illuminated manuscripts and the early modern printed book, and adds
to the breadth of its important collections in human sexuality and Asian Studies.
The Archive is curated by Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative
Literature and English, Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video,
at Cornell University. Author of books on new media, film, and
performance, Murray has curated new media exhibitions internationally
and is Co-Curator of CTHEORY Multimedia. The curator reviews new
materials for inclusion in the archive, and recommends the addition of
reference materials that would contribute to the intellectual context of
the archive. The Archive actively solicits materials for consideration
and/or contribution. Please contact:
Timothy Murray
Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art The Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
tel: 607-255-3530. fax: 607-255-9524
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