Continuing our commitment to working with cultural practitioners in emergent fields and fostering innovation and experimentation in the arts Creative Time, The New School, and Parsons School of Design are pleased to present Blur 02//: Power at Play in Digital Art and Culture.

Provocative and playful, BLUR is a biannual seminar exploring new creative practices that embrace the pleasure, seduction and energy of new technologies while calling for deeper reflection and critical awareness of our actions in digital art and culture. For this second BLUR 02 event, an internationally diverse group of artists, technologists, and cultural theorists accepted our invitation to participate in two days of private think-tank sessions, and two evenings of public performance/presentation, Projects and Prototypes.

Projects & Prototypes: Free Public Discussions

Open Play: Thursday, April 11th at 7:00 p.m.

OPEN PLAY will include a discussion and 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 Network Moment: Friday April 12th at 7:00 p.m.

THE NETWORK MOMENT will include a discussion and demonstration of playful tactical media responses to mainstream media culture that embrace emergent forms of public space with Chris Csikszentmihályi, MIT Media Lab; Matt Locke, BBC Imagineering; Lebbeus Woods, Research Institute for Experimental Architecture and the Institute for Applied Autonomy.

All seminar and public programs will be webcast and followed by an online discussion at www.nsu.newschool.edu/blur. Public programs take place at Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street (bet. 5th and 6th Aves). For information and public program reservations, go to www.nsu.newschool.edu/blur or call 212 229-5488.