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October 25, 2005, 6 pm, EDA
Lecture Brian Goldfarb and Eduardo Santana
GLOBAL TOURETTE

Brian Goldfarb is a digital media artist, curator, and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His research and visual media production focuses on media studies and contemporary visual and digital culture. Goldfarb was education curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC from 1994-7, where he organized “alt.youth.media” (Fall 1996), an exhibition of computer art, video, and popular print media (zines) by and for youth. Goldfarb’s current projects include Global Tourette, a digital documentary and media exchange project that engages cultural and professional responses to Tourette Syndrome in the US, Argentina, Mexico, Germany and other contexts internationally.

He is also working on Sense Ability: Fragments on Media Pedagogy, Digital Prosthetics and Assistive Technology explores the roles of visual culture and technology in shaping the concept of [dis]ability and in the development of techniques for assessing and supporting disabilities relating to the senses and communication. Sense Ability considers the role of visual culture, and these technologies in particular, in the emergence of sensory disability as a concept, and in the development of techniques for aiding and augmenting physical and sensory abilities since the late 19th century. The project will include both book and multimedia components.

Eduardo Santana is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at UCSD. He holds a MA in Latin American Studies by UT Austin and a BA in Communication by the University of St. Thomas in Houston. As a journalist, he worked for El Sol De México in Mexico City, in its newsroom, and also as a columnist and as the coordinator of its cultural supplement. Besides working on the topic of the construction of the Hispanic/Latino identity in the United States, he is currently working in the project "Global Tango" in which he examines the production, circulation and consumption of the different "bodies of tango" in a global culture that operates through local practices.

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