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West Virginia University to host Digital Media Symposium

Morgantown, WV, August 28, 2006: BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is coming to West Virginia University in September.

BIOS, to be held September 15-16 on the WVU campus in Morgantown, is an interdisciplinary symposium gathering artists and scholars for an exploration of the re-invention of life in digital media. The program combines new media performances and cyborg art, scholarly discussions of biotechnics and prosthetics, critical reflections on everyday virtual life, and presentations on the theory and practice of electronic literature.

"The participants are internationally-known artists and thinkers, leaders in their fields. The program is unique and cuts across disciplines along broad and inclusive lines," says Dr. Sandy Baldwin, Director of the Center for Literary Computing in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at WVU. "In the most general sense," he adds, "the symposium argues that digital media technologies are not the cold inhuman number-crunching machines as they are often portrayed, but sites of human embodiment, aliveness, and performance."

On Friday, September 15, the Symposium will take place from 11:00am to 6:00 pm in the Mountaineer Room at the WVU Mountainlair. Evening performances follow at 123 Pleasant, on Pleasant Street in downtown Morgantown. On Saturday September 16, the event moves to the WVU Creative Arts Center, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in the Falbo Theater, and from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm in the Bloch Theater. All events are free and open to the public.

BIOS is hosted by the Center for Literary Computing and by the Division of Art at West Virginia University. Support for the event comes from WVU's Department of English, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and College of Creative Arts. Additional support is provided by the Electronic Poetry Center and Digital Media Studies Program at the State University of New York (SUNY)-Buffalo.

More information, including a complete schedule of events, is available at http://www.clc.wvu.edu or by contacting Dr. Sandy Baldwin, Assistant Professor of English, at 304 -293-3107 ext. 33452 or charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu

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	NEWS West Virginia University to host Digital Media Symposium Morgantown, WV, August 28, 2006: BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is coming to West Virginia University in September. BIOS, to be held September 15-16 on the WVU campus in Morgantown, is an interdisciplinary symposium gathering artists and scholars for an exploration of the re-invention of life in digital media. The program combines new media performances and cyborg art, scholarly discussions of biotechnics and prosthetics, critical reflections on everyday virtual life, and presentations on the theory and practice of electronic literature. "The participants are internationally-known artists and thinkers, leaders in their fields. The program is unique and cuts across disciplines along broad and inclusive lines," says Dr. Sandy Baldwin, Director of the Center for Literary Computing in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at WVU. "In the most general sense," he adds, "the symposium argues that digital media technologies are not the cold inhuman number-crunching machines as they are often portrayed, but sites of human embodiment, aliveness, and performance." On Friday, September 15, the Symposium will take place from 11:00am to 6:00 pm in the Mountaineer Room at the WVU Mountainlair. Evening performances follow at 123 Pleasant, on Pleasant Street in downtown Morgantown. On Saturday September 16, the event moves to the WVU Creative Arts Center, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in the Falbo Theater, and from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm in the Bloch Theater. All events are free and open to the public. BIOS is hosted by the Center for Literary Computing and by the Division of Art at West Virginia University. Support for the event comes from WVU's Department of English, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and College of Creative Arts. Additional support is provided by the Electronic Poetry Center and Digital Media Studies Program at the State University of New York (SUNY)-Buffalo. More information, including a complete schedule of events, is available at http://www.clc.wvu.edu or by contacting Dr. Sandy Baldwin, Assistant Professor of English, at 304 -293-3107 ext. 33452 or charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu W-V-U