[-empyre-] Cynthia Beth Rubin: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Timothy Murray]

My resolution to broaden the conversation. Creative thinking and the 
desire to communicate are impulses that take different forms, and 
with the digital revolution we should be able to reach across the 
cultural, political, technological, and geographic barriers to 
exchange ideas, imagery, art. We need to embrace collaboration among 
artists at all stages of their careers and working in all forms of 
creative output, going beyond looking for obvious counter-parts in 
places where they are unlikely to exist.  An artist in a 
technologically under-developed part of the world is not likely to be 
doing Virtual Reality or programming inter-activity, but s/he might 
have a developed visual vocabulary in another form, ranging from 
photo-journalism to designing advertising to structural engineering. 
We have to stop saying that we know what art is and just get down to 
working together.

Bio:   Cynthia Beth Rubin (US) is a media artist.  She is a current 
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship recipient, is active in 
SIGGRAPH, and is a former board member and vice-president of ISEA. 
Rubin works collaboratively and alone, and has been trying to figure 
out why it is so hard to get a proposal to collaborate 
cross-culturally off the ground.

-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University