Activist Retooling: Fourfold: Panel for FLEFF 2011

We are very excited about the upcoming panel entitled "Activist Retooling: Fourfold." This panel will feature four different artists/curators working in new media and activism: Dreamaddictive, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Monica Haller, and Sarah Wylie. Moderated by Nicholas Adrian Knouf and Professor of the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell María Fernández, the panel will take place on the Tuesday of the FLEFF festival, 12 April 2011, from 7-9PM on the Ithaca campus:

Panelists will discuss ongoing projects touching on a range of issues and strategies relevant to current forms of media activism. Topics include the development of opensource and specialized tools as a means to channel scientific and private knowledge to the cultural and social domain; the move toward creating provisional and limited range broadcast technologies and the choice to focus on the immediate as ways to drive transnational outlooks; the prescience of formative personal experiences for the furthering of generative political processes; and the challenges in using digital tools to hold authoritarian structures accountable. These questions among others will be raised in the presentations and the follow-up moderated discussion.

Please see for more information on the panelists: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/blogs/fresh_at_fleff/

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