BLUR 02: Power at Play in Digital Art and Culture
Creative Time, The New School, Parsons School of Design
April 11-12, 2002.
The New School
Photo courtesy of Creative Time
BLUR 02:Projects and Prototypes was a series of two evening discussions featuring presentations and performances by new media innovators presented by Creative Time, The New School, and Parsons School of Design.
By 2002, the BLUR series had distinguished itself as a critical forum for new media innovators, ranging from multi-disciplinary artists to technologists to theorists. Open Play, the first of the two evening discussions, included a demonstration of entertainment genres such as computer games, electronic music, and animation with: Josephine Starrs, VNS Matrix/Sydney College of Art; Eric Zimmerman, gameLab; Richie Hawtin a.k.a. Plastikman; and Marina Zurkow’s Braingirl. The Friday evening discussion The Network Moment, included a demonstration of playful tactical media responses to mainstream media culture that embrace emergent forms of public space with Chris Csikszentmihályi from the MIT Media Lab, Matt Locke of BBC Imagineering, Lebbeus Woods from the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture, and the Institute for Applied Autonomy.
