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litsci-l-digest Tuesday, September 24 2002 Volume 01 : Number
019
In this issue:
Book Announcement: Iconoclash
Copyright Town Meeting
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:44:01 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller"
Subject: Book Announcement: Iconoclash
From David Weininger :
ICONOCLASH
Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art
edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
http://mitpress.mit.edu/026262172X
This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Center for New
Art
and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, invokes three disparate realms
in
which images have assumed the role of cultural weapons. Monotheistic
religions, scientific theories, and contemporary arts have struggled
with
the contradictory urge to produce and also destroy images and emblems.
Moving beyond the image wars, ICONOCLASH shows that image destruction
has
always coexisted with a cascade of image production, visible in
traditional
Christian images as well as in scientific laboratories and the various
experiments of contemporary art, music, cinema, and architecture.
While iconoclasts have struggled against icon worshippers, another
history
of iconophily has always been at work. Investigating this alternative
to
the Western obsession with image worship and destruction allows useful
comparisons with other cultures, in which images play a very different
role. ICONOCLASH offers a variety of experiments on how to suspend the
iconoclastic gesture and to renew the movement of images against any
freeze-framing.
Bruno Latour is a Paris-based philosopher and anthropologist. His many
books on science and culture include Pandora's Box: Essays in the
Reality
of Science Studies, Science in Action, The Pasteurization of France,
and
Laboratory Life. Peter Weibel is Director of ZKM/Center for Art and
Media
in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the editor of Olafur Eliasson (MIT Press,
2002) and the coeditor of CTRL [SPACE] (MIT Press, 2002) and
net_condition
(MIT Press, 2001).
8 x 11, 700 pp., 798 illus., 309 color, paper, ISBN 0-262-62172-X
David Weininger
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
dgw@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:56:19 -0400
From: Wayne Miller
Subject: Copyright Town Meeting
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:40:22 -0700
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE
Subject: NINCH Copyright Town Meeting: Media Issues, Atlanta,
Sept
30, 2002
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
September 17, 2002
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: ATLANTA
Presented in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of
Technology
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
"Media Issues in the Digital Age:
Copyright Strategies for Education and Culture"
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html
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Monday September 30, 9am-5pm
Free of Charge * Open to All
Registration Required: http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation and with support from the Graduate School of the Georgia
Institute of Technology and from the Intellectual Property Law Section
of
the State Bar of Georgia
With registrants from as far afield as California, Oregon, Canada and
Australia, the 20th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, hosted in Atlanta by
the
Georgia Institute of Technology, announces its final program for Monday
September 30.
Although copyright law was originally written with text documents in
mind,
the Internet and its increasingly wide bandwidth capabilities are
demanding
changes. Napster dramatized the issues and as a result commercial
companies
are scrambling to adjust their business models. Recent decisions about
license fees for radio webcasting, concerns about movie piracy and the
imminent arrival of the TEACH Act have brought into focus many of the
media
issues that have to be solved.
What are the implications of these issues for the educational and
cultural
communities in the management, use and re-use of media online? Are film
studios so concerned about piracy that they will not give permission for
classroom use? Is licensing the only answer for digital access to media
and
will it be prohibitively expensive for teachers and researchers? Is
there a
way to get automated permissions? Is Fair Use still a viable option for
online use of media? What other issues are preventing the online
distribution of our rich heritage in dance?
Building on a 2001 Copyright Town Meeting held at the New York Public
Library, the Atlanta Town Meeting will examine the challenges and
consider
practical strategies for taking advantage of the digital promise using
media online.
Program
The meeting will open with two internationally known copyright experts,
L.
Ray Patterson and Joseph Beck, giving their views on the key digital
issues
that have serious implications for the deployment and use of sound and
moving images online. These will include the TEACH Act and the recent
webcasting licensing fee decision, among others. Patterson is
universally
known for his classic work, Copyright in Historical Perspective and
Joseph
Beck is now probably best known as the lead counsel for the defendent in
"The Wind Done Gone" case.
The major part of the meeting will be divided between Film, Television,
the
Performing Arts and Sound, each panel taking a different perspective on
the
issues of access to material, getting permission to use and re-use
material, and what is permissible and fair use in research, in the
classroom and online.
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