RISD Archives Magnetic Media at Risk | LORI Grant Funded Digital Preservation Project

<p>The three digitized VHS tapes record the Faculty Symposium "The Nineties: Fin de Siecle of 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 second file presenting video of Don Keefer's presentation (from VHS tape 2) includes several minutes of broken white line interfernce, but does not impact the audio.</p>

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