Faculty Symposium: The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future?
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Scope and Contents
The three VHS tapes record the Faculty Symposium "The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future?" held in the RISD Auditorium 1990 October 12. Consisting of three sessions, the symposium featured RISD faculty and guest speaker Benny Andrews. The issues discussed included the controversy surrounding the National Endowment for the Arts, the Helms Amendment, artist Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ", technology, computer design, databases, the concept of fin de siecle, and censorship. Presentations are 20-30 minutes in length.
The video of Don Keefer's presentation on tape 2 includes several minutes of broken white line interference, but does not impact the audio.
Dates
- Creation: 1990
Creator
- Rhode Island School of Design. Faculty (creator, Organization)
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Biographical / Historical
Extent
3 cassette(s)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Faculty Symposium Committee organized the symposium "The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future?" held in the RISD Auditorium 1990 October 12. Coordinated by Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Photography Deborah Bright, the symposium featured presentations by RISD faculty and guest Benny Andrews on three panels.
Arrangement
Looking Ahead/Looking Back: Approaching the Year 2000
Art in the Age of Information
Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Fleet Library at RISD.
Existence and Location of Copies
The VHS tapes are available as mp4 files on the Fleet Library at RISD's Digital Commons website.
Subject
- Rhode Island School of Design. Office of Academic Affairs (Organization)
- Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art (Organization)
- Rhode Island School of Design. Division of Liberal Arts (Organization)
- Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities (Organization)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (Organization)
- Offutt, Treva Yvonne (Person)
- Rindler, Robert (Person)
- Bright, Deborah, 1950- (Person)
- Seigel, Catharine F. (Person)
- Cook, S. B. 1952- (Person)
- Vander Closter, Susan (Person)
- Staniszewski, Mary Anne (Person)
- Metz, Gary (Person)
- Nair, Hari (Person)
- Tulokas, Marie (Person)
- Keefer, Dan (Person)
- Congdon, Dennis (Person)
- Porter, Dennis (Person)
- Haley, Nade (Person)
- Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006 (Person)
- Serrano, Andres, 1950- (Person)
- Title
- Guide to Faculty Symposium: The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future?1990
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Douglas Doe.
- Date
- 2021 September 22
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Describing Archives: A Content Standard (Dacs)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Rhode Island School of Design Archives Repository