Titre et auteur:

The city within / editor, Jeanne Randolph ; contributors, Robert Adrian, Ruby Arngna'naaq, Jack Butler, Kati Campbell, Deborah Esch, Lorne Falk, Neil MacInnis, Bernie Miller, Tom Moylan, Jocelyn Robert, Colette Urban.

Publication:

Banff, Alberta, Canada : The Banff Centre for the Arts, [1992]
Canada : Paperworks Press, a division of Sundog Printing Limited
©1992

Description:

106 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
"Published as part of the residency on Technology, Rhetoric and Utopia, January to April 1992, in the Art Studio program at the Banff Centre for the Arts"--Verso of title page.
"The symposium was organized by the Walter Phillips Gallery as part of 'Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission' (January 17-March 13, 1992), with co-curators Diana Augaitis, the gallery's chief curator, and Dan Lander, a Toronto-based artist. Many of the artists in the residency were part of the exhibition and symposium project, which also contributed to this materializing act"--Page 106.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Jeanne Randolph -- Utopia and postmodernity: six theses / Tom Moylan -- Anti-utopia: some rhetorical questions about utopia / Robert Adrian -- Unititled / Jocelyn Robert -- Rhetoric and the technologies / Bernie Miller -- Technology and the preconscious / Jeanne Randolph -- At a safe distance: textile as transitional object / Neil S. MacInnis -- Facsimile / Deborah Esch -- Captive edens and tainted utopias: Hollywood, Fossey and the murder of the signifier / Kati Campbell -- Lick / Colette Urban -- A tragic utopia in two voices: part one / Jack Butler -- [A tragic utopia in two voices: part two] / Ruby Arngna'naaq -- The urgent time / Lorne Falk -- Acknowledgements / Lorne Falk, Program Director, Art Studio.

Résumé:

"This collection of non-fiction, critical fiction and visual art projects is, according to Randolph, a memento and intellectual souvenir of the Technology, Rhetoric and Utopia residency held at the Banff Centre in 1992. Includes 11 texts on subjects ranging from psychoanalysis, textiles and AIDS, to an Inuit legend from Baker Lake. Circa 60 bibl. ref."--e-artexte English abstract.

ISBN:

0920159680 (paperback)
9780920159682 (paperback)

Sujet:

Utopias.
Science Social aspects.
Technology Social aspects.
Utopies.
Sciences Aspect social.
Technologie Aspect social.

Vedettes secondaires:

Randolph, Jeanne, 1943- editor, essayist.
Adrian, Robert, 1935- essayist.
Banff Centre for the Arts.

Technology, Rhetoric and Utopia residency publication

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 86322
Cote: ID:93-B1849
Statut: Disponible