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SF EVENT: New Minds, Lecture/Performance Series, 10/98 (fwd)

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Can Technology Have Soul?
A Lecture/Performance Series that Explores Being Human in the Digital
Age

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco

NEW MINDS FORUMS
[descriptions and ticket information follow these listings]:

#1
Thursday  *  October 1  *  7:30pm
"Growing Up Digital"
                   a discussion with
  Jane Metcalfe, Co-Founder of Wired Magazine
  Jeff Hawkins, 3Com[r] PalmPilot[tm] Visionary
  Douglas Rushkoff, Cyber-Culture Author
  Larry Cuban, Stanford Educator/Historian
  Mamie Rheingold, Wired 13-Year-Old
                     and
  moderated by Linda Jacobson, VR Evangelist & Author

#2
Wednesday * October 14 * 7:30pm
  Bruce Sterling * Sci-fi Author & Cyberpunk

#3
Wednesday * October 21 * 7:30pm
"Bits & Pieces"
            a discussion and show'n'tell with
  Larry Harvey, Organizer of Burning Man
  Natalie Jeremijenko, Conceptual Artist & Engineer
  Paul Mlyniec, Visual Artist & Software Developer
  "Bean" (Tina Blaine), Music Interactivist
   and other artists
                     and
  moderated by Linda Jacobson, VR Evangelist & Author

#4
Thursday * October 29 * 7:30pm
  Todd Rundgren * musician & interactive artist

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For information and updates, check our website at
                  www.newminds.org
or call the information hotline at 415.641.9000.
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Growing Up Digital
October 1,  7:30 pm
Consider the new ways we learn and play. How is our digital
technology really touching our kids? Linda Jacobson hosts this
discussion with Orson's mom Jane Metcalfe, Howard's daughter
Mamie Rheingold, father and inventor Jeff Hawkins, writer
Douglas Rushkoff, and Larry Cuban, professor of
education at Stanford.

Jane Metcalfe is cofounder of Wired Ventures, Inc., and
board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She
and Louis Rossetto are the parents of toddler Orson.
Mamie Rheingold is a freshman at Branson School in Marin
and professional singer, dancer, and actor. She's been online
since age 8. Jeff Hawkins is an expert in cognition and
neurobiology and is the visionary behind the 3Com[r] PalmPilot.
Douglas Rushkoff, who coined "screenager," is an author,
social theorist, and software developer. His latest book, Playing
the Future, explores the culture of today's youth. Larry Cuban's
research interests focus on educational leadership and the uses
of technology in classrooms.

Bruce Sterling
October 14,  7:30 pm
Bruce Sterling's, 1986 anthology Mirrorshades is considered
to be the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement.
The vocabulary he created to portray future worlds has
become the street parlance of the cyber culture. He has
written six science-fiction novels and two short-story collections,
including his now classic Schismatrix, self-described as
"post human space opera." He is also a popular critic, having
appeared on ABC's Nightline and MTV and in Wired magazine
and the NY Times. Bruce calls cyberspace a "funhouse mirror
of our own society," and advises us "to reinvent our information
technology as if the future mattered; as if our children were
human beings, human citizens, not raw blobs of potential
revenue-generating machinery." In this rare public appearance,
experience for yourself the genius and humor behind one of
our most important writers.

Bits & Pieces
October 21, 7:30 pm
Artists predict the future of culture. By delving beyond
the surface, they alter our perception of what's possible.
"CyberArts" author Linda Jacobson hosts this multimedia
interaction. Larry Harvey founded the Burning Man project
in 1986. He designs the "Man,"Black Rock City, and
conceives and produces the project's pageants. Natalie
Jeremijenko is a conceptual artist and engineer, who's
worked in new technology R&D at Xerox PARC. Her
artworks have been shown at SIGGRAPH, MacWorld, and
NYC MoMA, (she's done some neat stuff with trees,
super- computers and sperm). Paul Mlyniec is a
simulation software specialist who's developed an
innovative two-handed, immersive painting and
sculpting medium for artists. Bean (Tina Blaine) is
a musical interactivist, ethno-musicologist and
technojournalist, currently working on a project at
Interval Research. She is a member of the percussion
group, Rhythmix and previously co-founded musical
multimedia ensemble, D'Cuckoo. More arts and
artists to be added!

Todd Rundgren
October 29, 7:30pm
Ever since Todd Rundgren played all the instruments
and sang all the vocals on his 1972 solo album,
Something/Anything, we have been on notice that
someone extraordinary was in our midst. As a song-
writer,  video pioneer, producer, recording artist,
software developer, interactive artist and CEO,
Rundgren has made a lasting impact on the form,
content, and delivery of popular music.

Rundgren is widely heralded as a true pioneer among
multimedia artists. Among his firsts are the first
interactive television concert, the first interactive
audio-only CD-ROM and creator of the first graphics
tablet driven paintbox software for personal computers.
Todd is President & CEO of Waking Dreams,
where he is redefining the distribution model for
music. Experience one of the most influential
multimedia artists of our time.

FOR TICKETS
        415.978.ARTS or www.ticketweb.com

Full Series Ticket (all 4 Forums)
        General Admission $55
        Students/Seniors/Faculty $40

General Admission per Forum
        Advanced $15
        Day of Show $18

Students/Seniors/Faculty per Forum
        Advanced $11
        Day of Show $14

LOCATION
        Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
        701 Mission Street  *  San Francisco

Ticket-holders are invited to...
A SPECIAL RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW EACH FORUM
        111 Minna Street Gallery

        Doors open at 7PM - Shows begin promptly at 7:30PM

Presented by: Microsoft Site Builder Network, Silicon Graphics and
beaming™

Sponsors include:
Echo Furniture
Fast Company
GCI
Hotel Maxwell
Interactive Week
Leonardo
Minna Gallery
Mondo Caffe
SF Station
San Francisco Bay Guardian
United Airlines
Yahoo

New Minds mission

New technology has always forced us to re-examine
our own humanity. Yet, never before has
technology evolved so rapidly or made such an
instantaneous impact on culture. Seeking to explain what
it means to be human in the Digital Age, New Minds
presents a lecture/performance series that explores
how multimedia and the Internet are affecting the
human condition.

New Minds is not the kind of lecture series that you
probably are accustomed to. In an ambient and
artistically creative atmosphere, part lecture, part panel,
part performance, we reflect the unfolding
intelligence of a new mind. We focus on the
socio-cultural impact of technology, and we bring
visionaries who express themselves in terms to which
we can all relate.

Where else can you hear a wired mom, a visionary
technocrat, a cyber-culture author, an inner-city
educator and a 13-year-old Internet critic discuss
what it means to grow up in the Digital Age?

New Minds provides a forum for the exchange  of
ideas that challenge and provoke our understanding of
new media.

New Minds also exposes and supports individuals
and groups employing our new tools for positive
humanitarian and environmental ends.

***  New Minds, a non-profit series, is independently
****  produced and organized by beaming™. With a little
*****  help from the Virtual Reality Education Foundation,
******  affectionately known as "VeRGe."

CALL 415.641.9000   or
VISIT www.newminds.org

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415.206.9287 phone
415.206.1287

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its horizon- a phenomenon of vision.

J. Carse

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