On Thursday, January 12 at 4:00 p.m. at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art (901 South College), New Media artist Rachel Clarke will present at talk on censorship and Internet art in the first of a series of lectures for “The Nuisance of Freedom: A Series On Censorship” sponsored by Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts Dean Anne-Katrin Gramberg will introduce the series and speaker.

Rachel Clarke is a New Media artist and Assistant Professor of New Media in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento. She works in digital imaging, time-based and interactive media. Her research explores the convergence of new technologies, human identity and organic systems.

The censorship series will include talks that explore such wide-ranging issues as our museum’s cornerstone collection Advancing American Art; technology and the Internet’s effects on questions of censorship; appropriations of history and partisan interpretations of the civil rights movement and racial identity; and the international political landscape’s contributions to identification of the self and the other,” says Dean Gramberg. “At the close of the series we will look at our willingness (or lack thereof) to address the quandary of what to say to whom and when and the role of self-censorship in the university and wider community.

Clarke has exhibited internationally and throughout the United States. In fall 2003, she curated a show of national and international artists using New Media, entitled “Postflesh: Visualizing the Techno-Self” at the University Library Gallery, Sacramento State University.

Clarke is currently Editor-in Chief of the online journal of CAA New Media Caucus, Media-N, a national journal of digital and media arts.

For more information on “The Nuisance of Freedom: A Series on Censorship” please contact Robbin Birmingham, Special Events Coordinator at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, 334-844-3085.