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12 MARCH 2009 24 FEBRUARY 2009
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER

Michael Century is Professor of New media Ecological concepts of continuity and
and Music in the Arts Department at interdependence are renegade forces.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which he They not only transform existing
joined in August, 2002. Long associated patterns of material consumption
with The Banff Centre for the Arts in and production, they destabilize
Canada, Century founded the Centre’s Media social values and disrupt aesthetic
Arts Division in 1988. As a producer in conventions. Even the notion of beauty
the field of new media art, he initiated is overhauled by the ecological mandate
The Art and Virtual Environments project to embrace all aspects of the life cycle
(1991-94), one of the first large-scale and – decay as well as growth. Artists who
sustained investigations of virtual reality demonstrate radical beauty are renegade
technologies as a new medium for artists. aestheticists. They demonstrate that the
greening of society depends as much upon
His talk presented two perspectives on revising human values as reforming human
the present: one in relation to the behaviors.
Renaissance, seen as a period of turbulence
and decompartmentalization similar to our
own, and the second, analyzing briefly
the sequence of waves of technological
revolutions since the industrial age began
in the late 18th century, highlighting the
rise and fall of density of innovation
in each. This led to a discussion about
a coming next wave “after” information
technology, based in life sciences and
putting into question the very idea of art
as a distinct field.

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