Open Circuits Revisited

The groundbreaking Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television, sponsored by EAI and held at MoMA in 1974, brought together artists, theorists, curators, arts administrators, and critics to discuss the challenges and opportunities of artists’ television and video. On the 50th anniversary of this landmark event, EAI is thrilled to collaborate with NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Department of Media, Culture, and Communications to present a series of public lectures and events, paired with closed discussion sessions convening artists and practitioners in the field. If you have any accessibility needs or questions about our access plans for these events, please contact cstrange@eai.org. We can accommodate requests for ASL interpretation up to two weeks prior to October 17. HEPA filters will be on the premises for all events, provided by Artists in Resistance NYC.

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, October 17: Susan Murray and Fred Turner in Conversation, with introductions by Rebecca Cleman and Marita Sturken
Location: The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU
16-20 Cooper Sq., New York, NY, 10003

Friday, October 18: The New Television: Video After Television: Book Launch and Reception
Location: EAI

Saturday, October 19: Alexander Galloway x Whit Pow: Error, Noise, & Randomness
Location: EAI

Presenter Biographies:

Susan Murray, New York University
Susan Murray is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. She is the author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television and was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.

Fred Turner, Stanford University
Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author most recently, with Mary Beth Meehan, of Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America.

Marita Sturken, New York University

Marita Sturken is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. She is the author of Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (New York University Press, 2022), Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright, Oxford University Press, Third Edition 2018), among several other books.

Rebecca Cleman, Electronic Arts Intermix
Rebecca Cleman is Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix and a writer. She has programmed screenings and special projects for such venues as the International House Philadelphia; the Museum of Art and Design, Anthology Film Archives, and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City; and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Germany.

Alexander R. Galloway, New York University
Alexander R. Galloway is a professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His most recent book is Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age (Verso, 2021).

Whit Pow
Whit Pow is an assistant professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their work focuses on queer and transgender (trans) histories of games, computational media and electronic art. Their latest article, “How the Computer Taught Us to See,” is published in Camera Obscura by Duke University Press.