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. The Office of Academic Affairs and the Museum of Art sponosored the event with funding provided by the Museum's Talbot Rantoul Fund, the Liberal Arts Division Humanities Fund, and the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.
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Faculty Symposium: The Ninties: Fin de Siecle of Vision of the Future?, Rhode Island School of Design Archives.
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.
Looking Ahead/Looking Back: Approaching the Year 2000
Art in the Age of Information
Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society
Transferred from the Fleet Library at RISD.
The VHS tapes are available as mp4 files on the Fleet Library at RISD's Digital Commons website.