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Ney Nava Dance Theatre, contemporary, classical and Sufi dances of Iran, has
been performing in Southern California and nationally since 1994.

Ney Nava is pleased to announce its new website at



Founded by artistic director Shida Pegahi, the company has performed at some
of the finest cultural arts institutions around, including the Getty, Armand
Hammer,
UCLA, and in many international dance festivals.

Please visit and enjoy.

Contact Ney Nava Dance Theatre
323/650-3157
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Many of you have been following the saga of Hector Ponce's mural at 6th and
Westlake. The mural, a symbol of the struggle for indigenous rights,
depicts both Emiliano Zapata and Zapatista leader, Sub-Commandante Marcos.
The mural was destroyed once before by the City of Los Angeles Cultural
Affairs Department and is once again in danger. The Los Angeles Department
of Building and Safety designated the piece as an "Illegal Sign" and issued
an order to the building owner to either remove it or bring it to code. I
was recently informed by Brad Neighbors, Senior Inspector, that they have
now referred the case to the Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission for
a public hearing to determine whether the piece is in fact a mural or a
sign. The hearing has not yet been scheduled and it is unclear how long
before it is scheduled.

The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) asks that the public
express their support for public art as well as their disdain for the
efforts of the Department of Building and Safety to define the parameters
between art and signage. Please contact Senior Inspector Brad Neighbors at
the Department of Building and Safety at (213) 738-5674 and your local City
Councilperson. Letters of support for this important public artwork can be
faxed or e-mailed to SPARC at (310) 827-8717 or sparc@....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Viva Krasinski 310/822-9560 x11 viva@...

Hector Ponce?s Mural Depicting Emiliano Zapata and Chiapas Leader
Sub-Commandante Marcos Declared an "Illegal Sign" and Slated for Destruction
by the City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety

Hector Ponce?s mural, a symbol of the struggle for indigenous rights in
Chiapas, Mexico, depicting both Zapatista leader, Sub-Commandante Marcos and
Emiliano Zapata was painted at 6th and Westlake with the support of the
building owner. However, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department has destroyed the mural once before and recently threatened to do
so again, citing a complaint which they originally attributed to the
building owner but later was discovered to have been made by a neighboring
business. The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety has now stepped
into the fray, declaring the artwork to be a "sign" painted without proper
signage permits and thus eliminated any need to notify the artist prior to
it?s destruction as is required by the Federal Visual Artist?s Rights Act
(VARA). Ponce?s mural is scheduled for immediate destruction by the
Department of Building and Safety. Their role as both the purveyors and
enforcers of ill-defined parameters between what constitutes art and what
constitutes signage borders on censorship.

The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) asks that the public
express their support for public art as well as their disdain for the
efforts of the Department of Building and Safety to define the parameters
between art and signage. Please contact Senior Inspector Brad Neighbors at
the Department of Building and Safety at (213) 738-5674 and your local City
Councilperson. Letters of support for this important public artwork can be
faxed or e-mailed to SPARC at (310) 827-8717 or sparc@....

Hi everyone, this may seem a bit off the culture radar, but I'm looking for Taco Trucks operating on the Westside. Are there any regular locales you have spotted and can direct me to? It's for a story.

Thanks ever so much!

Keli
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April 6th and 7th at 8pm [be on time _ very important]
828 Pico Bl. [enter through alley_can't stress how
important this is]

$10 Rich
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Curator's Talk


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Hei, Han Khiang, detail from "Space, Danger!!
Mines!!," 1993-1997



Tran, T. Kim-Trang

Speaks about the artworks and concepts related to
the group exhibition

Indochina: The Art of War

Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 p.m.

Luckman Fine Arts Gallery
California State University, Los Angeles

Indochina: The Art of War is co-presented by the Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery, a facility of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.

For further information, please call (323) 343-6604 or (323) 343-6608

TUJUNGA. On Sunday, April 8 at 5:00 p.m., the Friends of the
Sunland-Tujunga Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library presents a poetry
reading with Jim Natal and Elsa Frausto. The program begins with an open
reading.

Chicago native Jim Natal came to Los Angeles via Santa Fe. His first
full-collection of poetry, IN THE BEE TREES, was recently published. His
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, The
Yalobusha Review, Solo, Manzanita, Clay Palm Review, Spillway, Rattle,
rivertalk, Vol. No., Cider Press Review, Caesura, and Urban Spaghetti. His
work also appears in the award-winning anthology What Have You Lost?
(edited by Naomi Shihab Nye), as well as in Fresh Water and Beyond the
Valley of Contemporary Poets 1997. Natal has written three chapbooks: Oil
on Paper (2000) and Explaining Water With Water (1997), both published by
the Inevitable Press as part of the Laguna Poets Series, and The Landscape
From Behind (with Jamie O'Halloran), published by VCPress (1998). Natal won
the 1998 Ventura Poetry Festival Contest, was runner-up in the 1998
international Rosenberg Award competition, and, with Central Coast poet
Carla Martinez, was the winner of Spillway's 1997 Walt Whitman Call and
Response Poetry Contest. As a member of the Hyperpoets, he founded and
helped run the Rose Cafe weekly poetry series for three years. With
Jeanette Clough, he curates and hosts the Poet-X series at Barnes & Noble
in Santa Monica.

Tujunga resident Elsa Frausto was born in Argentina and raised in Oregon
and Los Angeles. Elsa has been active with the Sunland-Tujunga based
Chuparosa Writers for several years and states that her work as a poet and
translator includes a search for personal identity which has in turn led
her to an understanding of the "other." Her poems and translations (from
Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) have appeared in La Opinion,
?migré Magazine, the Chuparosa Calendar, Indefinite Space and other
magazines, as well as in the book CUATRO POETAS DE LOS ANGELES/FOUR LOS
ANGELES POETS (Moradalsur Editores 1998.) From 1991-93 she was co-editor of
Lahoja, a Spanish language periodical based in Los Angeles.

The series continues in June with Amy Uyematsu and Richard Modiano.

The Friends of the Sunland-Tujunga Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
is a private, non-profit organization that sponsors literary events and
provides financial and volunteer support to the Sunland-Tujunga Branch of
the Los Angeles Public Library. Its mission is to encourage children to
become life-long readers and library patrons. To donate books or volunteer,
call the Branch at (818) 352-4481.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
received from the James Irvine Foundation. Admission is free. The Branch
is located at 7771 Foothill Blvd., Tujunga. Parking is available and the
library is fully accessible to people who use wheelchairs. Call (818)
352-4481 for directions.

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Jamie O'Halloran
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1. WHAT IS LA CULTURE NET?
LA Culture Net is a forum in which arts administrators, artists, and anyone passionate about the arts in Los Angeles County can communicate with each other. Originally launched by the Getty Center in 1995 in response to interest from local arts, cultural, and educational institutions, the listserv now exists on its own, with some support provided by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Appropriate postings include announcements of arts events, job listings in the field, and cultural policy discussions about all topics, including advocacy.

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4. WHAT TOPICS ARE BEING DISCUSSED?
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5. WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE ON LA CULTURE NET?
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6. HOW MANY MESSAGES WILL I BE GETTING FROM LA CULTURE NET?
As of February 2001, there are about 350 subscribers. Traffic, or mail volume, varies but usually range from 10 to 15 a week. For your convenience, all messages sent to the new LACN address will be tagged with [LACN] in the subject line, so you can easily identify the e-mails sent to LACN-list. Based on common Netiquette and past problems with large unsolicited attachment files, all e-mail attachments sent to LACN will be automatically rejected.

7. WHAT IS THE PREFERRED FORMAT FOR MESSAGES?
First of all, always put your name and email address at the end of every posting, so that other subscribers can easily identify you. It also helps to use a meaningful subject heading, so that people can see if your message deals with a topic that interests them. For job announcements, please include the phrase <JOB:> in the subject heading. For event announcements, please include the phrase <EVENT:> In the subject heading.

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Interdisciplinary dance and performance artist Michael
Sakamoto is considering performers for a new dance
theater work to premiere this summer in Los Angeles.
The show will be a dark, visceral, absurd and comic
ride through the films, history and mind of the
diabolical Doctor Chi. Ideally, it is a subversively
pop examination of the line between benevolence and
destruction, control and chaos, beauty and madness,
intellect and irrationality. Artists with
movement/dance (especially butoh-influenced movement),
acting, improvisation and/or performance art skills or
training and a keen sense of humor are encouraged to
inquire at (310) 823-6389 or michaelsakamoto@....

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"Poetic Craft"
poetry writing workshops
led by Jamie O'Halloran

to be held in the
ROOM FOR POETRY

at the Fine Art Connection
2 S. Garfield Ave. # 15, Alhambra

4 Saturdays, beginning April 28th, 2001
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Each session will focus on a particular element of poetic craft--the line,
diction, sound and meter, trope--and offer methods for revision to
strengthen works in progress. Workshops will begin with a discussion
of a poetic element and conclude with a critiquing session of
participants' poems.

Open to adults
Limited to 10 students

$80 advance registration
$100 walk-in (if seats are available)

For advance registration, or more information, please Email:
roomforpoetry@... , or call (626) 281-3605.

Jamie O'Halloran holds an M.A. in English from the University of
Washington's Creative Writing Program. She is the author of the chapbook
Sweet to the Grit and her poems have appeared in more than 40 journals and
anthologies, including Prairie Schooner, The Cream City Review, Solo,
Yankee and Grand Passion: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. She has won
the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and other awards, and has been nominated
twice for the Pushcart Prize. During her tenure as a co-director with the
Valley Contemporary Poets she edited its 1999 anthology and six poetry
chapbooks. She has directed the literary reading series at the
Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library since 1993 and is contributing editor for
POETRYBAY.COM.

"[T]he work you did with Robert Arroyo, Jr. and I on "Call the Sun Down"
was careful, incisive and with an eye toward recognizing and nurturing the
heart of each poem individually--as well as the collection as a whole."
-- Robert Wynne

"Lyrical acuity and intense musicality are hallmarks of Jamie O'Halloran's
work. Yet, still she captures her lush inner landscape with an economy of
language that speaks of a dedication to the fundamental principle of the
art form: make every word count. Reading her poetry is like seeing in
stereo--both halves of the brain respond to the deft nuances of her
syllables. "
--Robert Arroyo, Jr.



Jamie O'Halloran
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Crown City Brass Quintet In Benefit Concert

Sunday April 1, 2001, 3:00 PM
Pasadena First United Methodist Church
500 East Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena

Donations accepted for a philanthropic project in Mexico.

Featured Artists:

Marty Frear, Trumpet; Robert Frear, Trumpet; Bruce Hudson, Horn; Andrew Malloy, Trombone; Norman Pearson, Tuba

Music by: Susato, Ewazen, Peaslee, Bach, Barnes, Kompanek and Monk

The Crown City Brass Quintet gave it's first concert in the Spring of 1993.
Formed as a creative outlet by five of Los Angeles's busiest musicians, these players have performed in motion picture soundtracks as well as with some of the finest orchestras in the world. As chamber musicians, the members of the Crown City Brass Quintet have played in many groups, with more than 60 years experience between them. The Crown City Brass Quintet plays an annual concert to benefit the Habitat for Humanity chapter at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, and has played several concerts of new brass music written by members of the Pacific Composer's Forum. They have also given recitals at many churches and universities in southern California. In the spring of 2001 the quintet will premier a composition by Jim Self at the Ventura Chamber Music Festival, written for brass quintet and marimba .

Questions? Contact Crown City Brass Quintet at notuba@... .

line dance art exhibition

Flor de Luna Art Studio
434 E. Ave. 28
Los Angeles, 90031

323/221.5660


Martin Betz, Castillo, Lorraine Cleary, Keith Crockett, Eszter Delgado,
Martin Durazo, Susan Joseph, Maryrose Mendoza, Christine Morla, and Gili Wolf.

"line dance"
April 7- 29.
Opening Reception, Saturday, April 7 from 7- 11PM.
Gallery open Sunday April 8, 1-5pm and by appointment. 323/221.5660

Line Dance is an exhibition of installation artists working with line.
This group show gives the public a different and often unseen view of
installation artists and their drawings or lines of poetry. The two
dimensional sides of three dimensional artists are exposed. Artists are
invited to treat the public to discovering another side of their visual
and/or written expression by sharing in the contemporary dialogue with either
preliminary drawings of their installations and/or drawings that have never
been viewed, representations of words in
any form -- written or spoken, hence the "line dance."

The Dark Bob's performance art event series will be
highlighted tonight at 7pm in a feature article on
KCET-TV's Life and Times Tonight show! Scheduled
interviewees and featured performers include The Dark
Bob, George Herms, Andy Dick, John Fleck, Michael
Sakamoto, Rochelle Fabb and Erika Schickel.

(For those who don't know, KCET is channel 28.)

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Hi there -

My company, Pacific Publications of 5760 Wilshire
Blvd, is closing its Los Angeles office and would like
to donate said office furniture to a Los Angeles
theatre group. The list of items to be donated are:

2 black metal supply cabinets
1 black metal horizontal filing cabinet
1 black metal letter-sized 4 drawer vertical filing
cabinet
4 tall white metal bookshelves
1 white formica desk
1 cherrywood/black reception desk (includes desk,
hutch, middle table and return)
1 Mac Classic II computer
1 IBM PC (both computers are older but include
monitors, keyboards, mouse for each etc...as
previously mentioned they are older models but they
are both in working order and the IBM is loaded up
with Windows)
gray plastic utility shelves
1 slide projector
1 transparency viewer
miscellaneous supplies such as plastic file folder
desktop holders, one IKEA wall clock, metal file
folder holders for the desk
2 swivel desk chairs
1 large dry-erase board
1 poster-sized IKEA metal frame w/poster

Please contact Anna Becker at 323.904.4375 to schedule
a pick-up time and if I'm not there please leave a
message and I'll get back to you. For these items to
be donated I will need the following from you:
a receipt for the merchandise donated
you have to pick everything up yourself
and please do not be selective - I'd like EVERYTHING
to go to ONE company at ONE time.

This is first-come first-served so call ASAP.

Thanks again.
Anna - Pacific Publications

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Author Derrick Jensen to Visit Glendale
March 31, 2001 at 11:30am

You are invited to an informal talk and book signing with Derrick
Jensen, social and environmental activist and author of "A Language
Older Than Words." Jensen, writer for The Sun Magazine, The New York
Times Magazine and Audubon will visit WellnessWorks Community Health
Center and Bookstore in Glendale this Saturday, March 31 at 11:30am.

"A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that
touches every aspect of our lives, and indeed affects all aspect of life
on earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic
abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community, and
how we can make things better."

WellnessWorks Community Health Center & Bookstore provides integrative
wholistic health services and education in a compassionate environment.

WellnessWorks is located at 540 W. Broadway, Glendale 91204 in between
Pacific and San Fernando.

Please call Mary Lu or Marolyn 818.247.5125/247.2062
or email: wellnessworks@...

I am said daughter of Dr. Steven Feldman. I wanted to say a little bit more,
as I feel I am bieng incredibly short-changed by the description he gave:
I'm currently an Arts Major at a Visual/Performing Arts Magnet school in the
DC-Metropolitan area. Unfortunately, I did call Mr. Smith at LACN and he
says basically that there's no way I can get in for the simester beginning
this fall, though he urges me to try for the winter one. If anyone has any
contacts with this school it would be very important to see if I can't get
them to accept my portfolio on slide or CD form and perhaps just do a
telephone interview for auditions...this is incredibly important to me.
I looked into Westlake in North Hollywood, Crossroads in Santa Monica,
and Oakwood in North Hollywood and unfortunately I don't believe we'll be
able to afford a private school with the cross-country move.
PLEASE if anyone has ANY help whatsoever, it would be very important to
me if you all could help me with this, as I cannot imagine -not- bieng a
Visual Arts major through the rest of high school. Many thanks.

Lindsay Feldman
1st year Visual Arts major
Suitland school of visual and performing arts

The USC Provost?s Distinguished Writers Series is proud to present a reading
by and conversation with CAROL MUSKE-DUKES on Thursday, April 5 at 7 pm in
Newman Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Southern California.
A pre-reading reception will begin at 5:30 pm at the USC Faculty Center.

USC is pleased to extend a special offer of complimentary tickets to LA
culture Net participants. Seating is limited so call today. Tickers may be
reserved by calling USC Special Events at 213-740-1744.

If you call before April 3rd, tickets will be free and may be picked up at
the reception. Otherwise, $20 tickets are available for purchase at the
door.

USC Professor of English and Creative Writing Carol Muske-Dukes is the
author of six books of poetry, most recently "An Octave Above Thunder, New &
Selected Poems" (Penguin 1997), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize and a New York Times Most Notable Book. Her two novels are "Dear
Digby" (Viking 1989) and "Saving St. Germ" (Penguin 1993), both optioned for
feature films. This year, Random House will publish her third novel, "Life
After Death," followed by her second collection of essays, "Married to the
Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood," in 2002.

"I?ve learned the lessons of life by reading literature. I?ve learned about
myself by writing." -- Carol Muske-Dukes

Hello,

I am the father of a high school freshman--my daughter is passionate
about photography and the arts! We are contemplating a move from DC
to northern LA area and am looking for feedback on some great high
school visual arts programs. Ventura County/LA County or others will
be considered if the high school programs are primo. Please let me
know if you can help, OK to reply privately.

Thanks,

Dr. Steve Feldman

The Los Angeles County Office of Education runs an arts high school housed on
the campus of a state college. Here's a link to the school's visual arts
department, including lists of courses offered and a gallery of student work:



Here's a map of the campus with a link to a page that will show you where the
campus is in the city:


I'd be interested in seeing other replies onlist.

Cindy Cotter
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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USC-MIT conference addresses rhetoric around "digital divide"
and expands perceptions of minorities' use of technology
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What: Conference on Race in Digital Space
When Friday, 27 April, 12:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, 28 April, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Sunday, 29 April, 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 13, 8:30am-12pm
Where: MIT Campus, Wong Auditorium, Building E51
Full Schedule:
Registration: Registration required. Contact Brad Seawell
(617-253-3521, seawell@...) SPACE IS LIMITED

Most discussions of the "digital divide" erase the numerous contributions
of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scholars.
Researchers in MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies and USC's
Annenberg Center for Communication will host a three-day conference, "Race
in Digital Space," to explore current issues and celebrate the
accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies, Friday, 27 April
through Saturday, 29 April 2001 on the MIT campus. The conference is free
and open to the public.

"Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet we don't
shed our racial identities or escape racism just because we go
on-line," said Henry Jenkins, professor, director of Comparative Media
Studies at MIT, and co-organizer of the event. "The concept of 'digital
divide,' however, is inadequate to describe a moment when minority use of
digital technologies is dramatically increasing. The time has come to focus
on the success stories, to identify examples of work that has increased
minority access to information technologies and visibility in digital
spaces."

Conference organizers hope the event will serve as a touchstone for
thinking critically about race in a wide variety of digital spaces. "We
need to think beyond the screen and the mouse," said Tara McPherson,
professor at USC's School of Cinema-TV and conference co-organizer.
"Digital spaces extend to a whole range of 'tote-able' street technologies
from cell phones and beepers to Gameboys, music equipment and more. We're
interested in the way these forms constitute new publics."

Plenary panels will explore such issues as: E-Race-ing the Digital; How
Wide is the Digital Divide; Authenticating Digital Art, Expression and
Cultural Hybridity; and Speculative Fictions/Imaging the Future. Breakout
sessions, designed for focused conversations with smaller groups of
conference participants, will address: Art and Hactivism; Funding the
Arts-Creative Capital; Digital Business-From Netrepreneurs to Corporations;
Hactivist Workshop-Organizing the Million Women March; Hate Speech; Job
Opportunities and Training; and Community Best Practices. A keynote will be
presented by Walter Massey, president of Morehouse College.

"The ways in which we represent ourselves and use digital media raises
significant issues," said Anna Everett, professor at the University of
California at Santa Barbara and conference co-organizer. "We need to begin
exploring answers to such important questions as 'What cultural and social
baggage do we carry into the digital domain?' and 'How have minority
communities deployed digital tools to comment on digital culture, to
reconfigure the history of racism, and to claim a more powerful voice in
shaping the future?'"

Speakers
While the event is being planned within the academy, organizers have
invited a diverse group of speakers to address an equally diverse audience,
which will include scholars and teachers, professionals, artists, writers,
policy makers, social and cultural commentators, community leaders, and
young people. Confirmed speakers include:

Vivik Bald, (aka DJ Siraiki), Co-founder, Mutiny
Nolan Bowie, Senior Fellow, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Karen Radney Buller, President, National Indian Telecommunications
Institute (NITI)
Farai Chideya, Editor, PopandPolitics.com
Mel Chin, Artist
Beth Coleman (aka DJ Singe), Co-director, SoundLab Cultural Alchemy
Ricardo Dominguez, Co-founder, The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT)
Coco Fusco, Associate Professor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Jack Gravely, Office of Workplace Diversity, Federal Communications
Commission
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Artist, Musician, Writer
Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of English, Sonoma State University
Alondra Nelson, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, NYU
Mimi Nguyen, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Ethnic Studies, U.C.-Berkeley
Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished Professor of English, Medgar Evers College,
CUNY
Alex Rivera, Digital Media Artist and Filmmaker
Kalamu ya Salaam, Poet and Community ActivistAna Sisnett, Austin Free-Net
Ana Sisnett, Executive Director, Austin Free-Net
Thuy Linh Tu, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies Program, NYU
Jamille Watkins-Barnes, Business Consultant, Classic Business Development

Art Exhibition, Digital Salon, and Dance Performance
In coordination with the conference, a concurrent video show and digital
salon is being be curated at the LIST Center for the Visual Arts. "The
exhibition will feature the work of innovators and visionary film, video,
new media, and website designers whose work deals specifically with the
intersection of race and technology," said Erika Muhammad, Ph.D. candidate
in Cinema Studies at NYU, co-organizer of the conference, and curator of
the exhibition at LIST Visual Arts Center.

"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," Muhammad said.

Included 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. Spanning the past 20 years, the
program will include experimental film and video, net.art, CD-ROMS, websites
and aural mixes.

A performance event featuring DJs and live video mixing by Vivek Bald (DJ
Siraiki), Beth Coleman (aka DJ Singe), and Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
will be held for conference participants and students on the evening of
Saturday, 28 April 2001. MIT Assistant Professor Tommy DeFrantz will also
perform "My Digital Body," an original dance piece developed for the event.

Pre-Conference Workshop
A pre-conference workshop for Boston metropolitan and New England regional
educators, artists, and technology center directors will be held on
Wednesday, 11 April 2001, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Bartos Theater, MIT Campus.
"We want to spotlight community 'best practices' and encourage conversations
among the dozens of Boston-area technology centers that support minority
communities," said Paula Robinson, founder of the Institute for the
Integration of Technology and Education and conference co-organizer.

All events are free and open to the public. To learn more and register,
visit:


Organizers and Sponsors
The Race in Digital Space Project is organized by the University of
Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
conjunction with New York University and University of California at Santa
Barbara. The conference is sponsored by USC Annenberg Center for
Communication, USC School of Cinema-Television, MIT School of Humanities,
Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Communications Forum, MIT Council for the Arts, MIT LIST Visual Arts
Center, MIT Program in Women's Studies, and the NYU Department of Cinema
Studies. Major financial support has been provided by the Ford Foundation
and Rockefeller Foundation. Microsoft is an in-kind sponsor.

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Christiane Robbins
Associate Professor / Director
Matrix Program for Digital Media
University of Southern California
Watt Hall 103
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292

Tel: 213.821.1539
Fax: 213.740.8938

email: robbins@...